Quotes About Eccentricity

I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane

I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

I had one celebrity, who shall remain nameless," Nicole said when pumped for stories about her high-profile clients, "who wouldn't consider dating anyone who'd ever eaten a green M& M.

Copy individuals who are weird.

He was wearing a winged hat, but he'd forgotten to put on his pants.

Beauty can come in strange forms.

If you're going to frame a crazy, build a crazy frame.

they didn't think there was anything very odd in anyone being a little odd.

almost exquisite, the slight madness

Trained slugs race across his jello in eight-cylinder sombreros

A world of ticking clocks and creaking floorboards.

Oh, no, I'm not saying she isn't a nut -- she is -- but I've noticed before that sometimes someone like that behaves quite ordinarily with everybody, manages everything, you'd never think she was a nut, but there's just one person, with that person, she's out of control. It makes you wonder,' said Alice.

This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.

Listen, three eyes, he said, don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.

He actually caught himself saying things like Yippee, as he pranced ridiculously round the house.

Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.

Ford was beginning to behave rather strangely, or rather not actually beginning to behave strangely but beginning to behave in a way that was strangely different from the other strange ways in which he more regularly behaved.

Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, you know?

was friend the word? He seemed more like a succession of extraordinary events than a person.

Life, will be a very great deal less weird without you!

If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David Bowie, then attached another David Bowie to the end of each of the arms of the upper of the first two David Bowies and wrapped the whole business up in a dirty beach robe you would then have something which didn't exactly look like John Watson, but which those who knew him would find hauntingly familiar. He

You mean you've been in this same set of rooms here for... two hundred years?' murmured Richard. 'You'd think someone would notice, or think it was odd.' 'Oh, that's one of the delights of the older Cambridge colleges,' said Reg, 'everyone is so discreet. If we all went around mentioning what was odd about each other we'd be here till Christmas.

Ese es el problema con los chiflados: se les ocurre una gran idea que funciona de verdad y luego esperan que les financies durante años mientras ellos se dedican a estudiar la topografía de su ombligo.