Quotes About Eccentricity

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

People are quite frequently eccentric.

I had a lot of funky things as a kid. I had dinosaurs and comic book stuff. I was eccentric; imagination drove my decor. Dinosaurs, for sure, were in there!

even my different drummer heard a different drummer

Madness in method, that is genius.

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.

He looked a little crazy, till you got used to him. He could act as if he had needs barely above the animal kingdom, taking roughing it to the next level. When he was in his working clothes, he looked as if he barely subsisted. He could growl and snarl like a lunatic. But he had intelligent diction, good table manners, and while he might not be terribly social and on the quiet side, he had no trouble being around people. He was perfectly cordial.

Hesse sees Haller's record "as a document of the times, for Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs...a sickness which attacks...precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts.

These kids just keep getting weirder and weirder.

And extending a withered hand in the direction of the vote she slipped some salted almonds into her bosom.

Here is another marvy glimpse into the gothic basement that I call my mind.

Los locos de amor eran tres o cuatro, pero sólo les resultaban asombrosos por la curiosa índole de su delirio.

Saí triste. Procurava um homem original e achei um maluco. Os de juízo são todos copiados uns dos outros. Consta-me até que aquele mesmo homem de Plutarco, freguês do Carceller, curado por um hábil médico, está agora tão comum como os outros. Acabou a originalidade com a maluquice.

it's amazing what passing the half-century mark does to free one to be eccentric.

Man with goatee. Man who looked like a Beatle. All the Beatles at once. Woman wearing newspaper hat. I'd grown used to how weird New Yorkers were, and I could fit them into types.

Great teachers are usually a little crazy.

She makes use of the soft of the bread for a napkin. She falls asleep at times with shoes on, on unmade beds. When a little money comes in, June buys delicacies, strawberries in the winter, caviar and bath salts.

weirdo n. (pl. weirdos) INFORMAL a person whose dress or behaviour seems strange or eccentric.

The best thing about flying first class....was that you could be as nutty as a fruitcake and were still treated like the Queen of Sheba.

It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.

No school without spectacular eccentrics and crazy hearts is worth attending.

Insanity is always a reasonable diagnosis when you're dealing with writers and artists

I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!