Quotes About Eccentricity

People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.

But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.

Mr. Harrison was certainly different from other people…and that is the essential characteristic of a crank, as everybody knows.

Everybody is a little insane on some points

Miss Patty and Miss Maria are hardly such stuff as dreams are made of, laughed Anne. Can you fancy them `globe-trotting' -- especially in those shawls and caps? I suppose they'll take them off when they really begin to trot, said Priscilla, but I know they'll take their knitting with them everywhere. They simply couldn't be parted from it. They will walk about Westminster Abbey and knit, I feel sure...

Occasionally she would come to church, stalking unconcernedly up the aisle to a prominent seat. She never put on hat or shoes on such occasions, but when she wanted to be especially grand she powdered face, arms and legs with flour!

DiÄŸer insanlardan farkl? olan kiÅŸiler hep tuhaf olarak görülür.

He had learned to embrace insanity. The full measure of his madness was that he had even come to like humans

Meet Crazy Eddie

They be crazier than we are.

Have you ever tried nodding good morning to people while naked and holding a small arsenal of weapons?

Did not Dr. Kunastrokius, that great man, at his leisure hours, take the greatest delight imaginable in combing of asses tails, and plucking the dead hairs out with his teeth, though he had tweezers always in his pocket?

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.

One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.

sometimes crazy uncles—from Samuel Johnson to G. K. Chesterton.

There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

People have all day to talk about what makes them ordinary. It turns out that they want to share what makes them weird.

If you do grow up feeling as though you don't quite fit in as a child, it's very easy to decide you're certain not going to fit in as an adult. You hang on to your eccentricities and hate the idea of conforming. It's a common pattern.

To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another.

the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humours'.7

Southern California is the land of crazy crimes.

Howard Hughes was in serious trouble.