Quotes About Eccentricity

In spite of all my efforts to create a neat, tidy, obedient, moderate, unexceptional persona, I was simply too weird for them; until that is, my first female tutor was hired.

Cuando se vive con locos, es preciso también aprender a ser insensato.

am i insane asked alice yes, but all the best people are replied her father

The universe is mad, slightly mad.

His act was rather that of a harmless lunatic than an enemy. We were not so new to the country as not to know that the solitary life of many a plainsman had a tendency to develop eccentricities of conduct and character not always easily distinguishable from mental aberration. A man is like a tree: in a forest of his fellows he will grow as straight as his generic and individual nature permits; alone, in the open, he yields to the deforming stresses and tortions that environ him.

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

Me atrevería a decir que un hechicero puede llegar a ser útil y demás, pero, o sea, ¿siempre tienen que actuar de una manera tan puñeteramente rara?

If I'm as normal as I think I am, we're all a bunch of weirdos.

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

Some of the craziest people Ive met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people Ive met.

I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.

Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

Some people prefer the finer things in life, I'm alright just hanging out with the ghost of Vincent Price

Then Montesquiou was mentioned, and somebody described his first love-affair, a Baudelairean love-affair with a female ventriloquist who, while Montesquiou was straining to achieve his climax, would imitate the drunken voice of a pimp, threatening the aristocratic client.

He was a small, stringy man of about fifty, with immense horn-rimmed spectacles, a long, sharp nose, and an unusual capacity for garrulous incoherence.

Les gens qui ont de l'argent sont libres, après tout, d'être aussi bizarres qu'ils le veulent.

Most comedians are borderline psychotic. It's what makes their work interesting.

Sheep are just psychotic.

I think a bit of mystery is good, and I used to feel like an eccentric person pretending to be normal. But I am actually just a normal person seeming eccentric, by what I'm putting myself through.

I'm quite open to the fact that I might be a tinfoil-hat freak.

I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.