Quotes About Eccentricities

The bat is dun with wrinkled wings Like fallow article, And not a song pervades his lips, Or none perceptible. His small umbrella, quaintly halved, Describing in the air An arc alike inscrutable, – Elate philosopher! Deputed from what firmament Of what astute abode, Empowered with what malevolence Auspiciously withheld. To his adroit Creator Ascribe no less the praise; Beneficent, believe me, His eccentricities.

People who live in SoHo want to be close to the energy, culture, and eccentricities of New York's most charming neighborhoods.

Everyone acts crazy at times.

I basically think that I'm a fairly nice, normal person with just a few eccentricities.

What affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.

During the Hollywood studio system, they looked for people who were unusual. The stars had peculiarities.

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.

Maybe I'm too crazy to be in a relationship," Henry said, which was his familiar response to Bobby's familiar discourse about the future. It felt like a grown-up thing to say, and like a difficult concession, and what he meant by it was I am trying as hard as I can and it's not enough for you or even Why can't my weak eccentricities be adorable to you, as yours are to me? But Bobby always heard it as a conversation stopper, childish and easy and glib.

And many a time, towards the end of life, does the genius repent of his choice. "It would be better not to startle the world, but to live at one with it," says Ibsen in his last drama. Genius is a wretched, blind maniac, whose eccentricities are condoned because of what is got from him.

My movies are always about the kooks and the outsiders.

At the very opposite of these eccentricities, the chiefly urban character of derive, in touch with those centres of possibilities and meanings that are the metropolises transformed by industry, would correspond to Marx's sentence: 'Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.

Eccentricities, of which I know I have many, do not hold universal sexual and romantic lure. I understand that.

Take warn­ing, Miller! The Board has reports on your eccentricities.

Debo ser discreto, no imponerle a la historia ni mi persona ni mis opiniones. Debo mantenerme sobrio durante las horas de trabajo; debo conservar la salud. No debo aceptar demasiados compromisos de otra índole: no se puede servir a dos señores. Debo seguir el consejo de la historia: hay secretos entre nosotros, y revelarlos sería incurrir en la más grosera de las deslealtades. Y debo estar dispuesto a aceptar determinadas obcecaciones y excentricidades de mi jefa.

We hold each other hostage to our eccentricities." I smiled again, an unseen smile. "We're made for each other.

We hold each other hostage to our eccentricities.

Everyone thinks his family is strange, Del said, scratching Scootie behind the ears, but it's just that... because we're closer to the people we love, we tend to see them through a magnifying glass, through a thicker lens of emotion, and we exaggerate their eccentricities.

There's an audience for everything.

There is little I can tell you about Aglaura beyond the things its own inhabitants have always repeated: an array of proverbial virtues, of equally proverbial faults, a few eccentricities, some punctilious regard for rules.

My fellow officers find that peculiar but I am rather proud of my eccentricities

I should describe mine own nature as tripartite, my interests consisting of three parallel and dissociated groups--(a) Love of the strange and fantastic. (b) Love of the abstract truth and of scientific logic. (c) Love of the ancient and the permanent. Sundry combinations of these three strains will probably account for all my odd tastes and eccentricities.

If music without words can have "characters," then Shostakovich's characters are like those in the absurdist stories of his Leningrad writer friends: broad and bizarre and almost cartoonish at times, full of vivid eccentricities.

Aren't eccentricities fairly common among overachievers.