Quotes About Eccentricity

It does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes: until by dint of not following their own nature, they have no nature to follow.

Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained.

People who read too many books get quirky. We can't have too much eccentricity or it would bankrupt us. Market research depends on people behaving as if they were all alike.

I'm going to end up in a home for the 'forever weird' if this shit keeps up.

She still had all of her marbles, though every one of them was a bit odd and rolled asymmetrically.

She still had all of her marbles, though every one of them was a bit odd and rolled asymmetrically. She

Perhaps you're not crazy, but you're very creative.

Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.

what's normal, she said. adults are all just weird in different ways.

You think you're being difficult, my little sausage? Have I ever told you about the time I drank eight vodka martinis, took all my clothes off in front of a film crew and then broke my manager's nose?

I found myself buying a cuckoo clock that, instead of a cuckoo, had a large wooden penis that popped in and out of it every hour. I gave it to John Lennon when I went to visit him.

She was dressed, as usual, in an odd assortment of clothes, most of which had belonged to other people.

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.

Redheads have a lightness, a craziness, a kookiness. Think of Lucille Ball.

There's not many people that can handle my sheer madness.

I've always been weird, and into weird stuff that has a hard time finding mainstream success.

My absolute favorite film is Hal Ashby's 'Harold and Maude.'

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

A lunatic is just a minority of one.

The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.

Well, it is very odd of you to threaten to throw your friends out of the window, I must say, remarked Juliana. He smiled. Not at all. It is only my friends that I would throw out of the window. Dear me! said Juliana, finding the male sex incomprehensible.

Besides, it was a well-known maxim that maniacs must be humoured.