Quotes About Eccentricity

In a world full of oddities, it's how you outdo yourself within your own schizophrenia of abnormalities, that determines your most interesting self.

To keep up with the times these days, it seems you have to be a little bit demented. — "William F. Kinderman".

Tall, black-haired, rouged, Kaiser-moustached, he cackled and screamed in weird attitudes, giggling in high soprano, hiding his little black teeth behind an exquisitely gloved hand - the 'poseur' absolute. He was said to have slept with Sarah Bernhard and vomited for a week afterwards.

To put an antic disposition on.

If you ain't crazy, there's something wrong with you.

If you're not crazy there's something wrong with you. Willie Nelson

Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.

an enormous stately home. Mr Spud named it 'Freshbum Towers'.

I think every writer has a little freak in 'em.

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

He's one fry short of a Happy Meal.

But," she said to the priest, "I'm not dead yet. I've heard the angels farting on the ceiling.

Sarek frowned. "Insubordination?" "Eccentricity," Spock replied. "Captain Kirk allows a great deal of leeway as long as his crewmembers do their jobs well. Mr. Chevron simply takes advantage of it." "That good at his job, is he?" asked Sarek. "Indeed. Extremely good.

So Lydia grew up with a mother who emphasized the importance of being independent and saving for the future. A mother who had loaned her the money to open her bookstore. Though Lydia had been grateful, she'd never imagined that her mother's eccentricity might one day save her life.

Crazy people can add character to a place. If the ambience in your bar is off, or your lobby has gone inexplicably stale, consider picking up a lunatic. They're not hard to come by, and the often work for free. A lot of tattoo shops have one. Larger places might find it handy to keep two or three around.

I'm doing this because I'm insane. Doesn't my mad cackle make me sound insane?

is nothing more liberating than playing an illogical game where only you understand all of the rules.

She is her odd self. The kiln has been fired. She is a person persnickity about keeping her house clean, but not above spitting on her desk to rub out a coffee stain. She will never be an athlete, or a mathematician, or a skinny person, or someone whose heart isn't snagged by the sight of fireflies on a summer night and the lilting cadence of a few good lines of poetry.

But she is not those people; she is her odd self. The kiln has been fired; she is a person persnickety about keeping her house clean but not above spitting on her desk to rub out a coffee stain; she will never be an athlete or a mathematician or a skinny person or someone whose heart isn't snagged by the sight of fireflies on a summer night and the lilting cadence of a few good lines of poetry.

I have a title and a legacy to consider," Alex said. "I can't just choose any bride I want." "Why the devil not?" Jack argued. "I would think that a title and fortune such as yours would buy a fellow a measure of eccentricity now and then. Marry the chit and spend the rest of your life grinning at all the naysayers." Alex

The still-alives. They were all crazy.

I'm not crazy, but several of my other personalities are.