Quotes About Being Eccentric

#1. Being eccentric is having a great desire to experiment without always being willing to spend much precious time thinking things through.

Eric Vance Walton

#2. The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.

Will Rogers

#3. Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

Vincent Van Gogh

#4. That's what being eccentric means
being natural.

Lorraine Hansberry

#5. Years later when she was being eccentric, had shed her corset and let her arse spread unhindered by anything but her perpetual dressing gown.

Peter Carey

#6. They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.

Al McGuire

#7. Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.

Sara Sheridan

#8. We do know that she's compassionate and eccentric - an excellent combination in a human being;

Tom Robbins

#9. They tell me to be quiet
When I'd rather cause a riot
And have everyone screaming
Out their eccentric meaning.

Initially NO

#10. The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country, these people doing their good deeds were doubtless being seen as slightly eccentric, when in reality and in an ideal world they should be deemed the most normal people of all.

Danny Wallace

#11. Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

Terry Pratchett

#12. You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.

Thomas Keneally

#13. If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor.

Suzanne Collins

#14. I'm not very wise to many things.

Charles Manson

#15. I guess if you're smart enough, you can do and say what you like and people just call you eccentric. It's like being old."
"Or rich," Alex said.

David Walton

#16. I have described myself as being 'gently eccentric.'

Daniel Radcliffe

#17. It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.

Alfred P. Sloan

#18. After the death of a parent, children will typically start to worry about your safety as their mother, so they will need extra reassurance from you.

James Windell

#19. When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.

Ira Glass

#20. No doubt, a scientist isn't necessarily penalized for being a complex, versatile, eccentric individual with lots of extra-scientific interests. But it certainly doesn't help him a bit.

Stephen Toulmin

#21. People wanna say that they're part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We're raised to believe that there's something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I'm saying I used to tell girls that I was mixed, which is a bold-faced lie!

Chance The Rapper

#22. I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak.

Lady Gaga

#23. I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up.

Mark Haddon

#24. When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

Brian Eno

#25. You know, I am kind of a bi-polarish schitzerphrenic. I run the gamut of being incredibly shy and withdrawn to being a crazy-eccentric exhibitionist. And I have always been like that.

John Leguizamo

#26. One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.

A.A. Milne

#27. One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person; but one's ideal as a professor should be to conduct oneself as an admirable human being: just, kind, tolerant, competent, committed, and good-humored.

Robert Audi

#28. Eccentric doesn't bother me. "Eccentric" being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.

Crispin Hellion Glover

#29. People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out.

Fennel Hudson

#30. I've worn a lot of humdingers in my time, but as a model it's my duty - my responsibility - to bring life to any garment. That can be challenging when it comes to high fashion, where the creations can be very eccentric, but I've gained a reputation for being the go-to girl who can pull it off.

Erin O'Connor

#31. God's definition of going well is unique, distinct, almost eccentric. His definition of wellness is not about health, finances, or job security. It's not about unfailing protection from the vagaries and dangers of a broken world. It's not about life being fair. It's about acceptance.

Mark Buchanan

#32. The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

Afrika Bambaataa

#33. Being indie means being artistic and finding your own eccentric identity. The name of the game for being an indie kid is to never admit you are one. If you do, it goes against your beliefs against labeling, thus making you a hypocrite.

Alexandra Robbins

#34. The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.

Marjorie Benton Cooke

#35. I felt a crack in my defenses - a weak place where truth knifed and twisted and pried for an opening

Julianne Donaldson