Quotes About Eccentricity

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.

The world's full of idiots, divas and assholes, mainly in Ireland. In Ireland, one cannot achieve anything if he is not a little wacky. That's a holy truth. It just simply cannot be otherwise.

Jsme Norové a jsme všichni divní. A protože všichni jsou divní, je svým zp?sobem normální být divný, proto záv?r zní, že nikdo z nás není divný. Jsme jen Norové.

People who were cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, that's who. Cats with a serious marble deficiency.

I was too weird, even for the weirdos.

Dostoyevsky was her brother, Victorian children's books her passion and though she lived, when in funds, mainly on avocado pears, she took her bath each night with a different cookery book.

I always say Coach Trestman reminds me of the first Willy Wonka. Not the Johnny Depp one.

For a long time, I dressed like an idiot. In college, I had a fully shaved head with just two horns. Like, a coxcomb of hair that I would sculpt into two horns. I looked like a crazy person.

I have always idolized eccentric people.

There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.

He was incredibly good as Dr Who. He brought all his eccentricities to the role and was so charismatic and charming. He must be the fans firm favourite.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves.

I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles.

I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.

Things like 'mad as a hatter' or 'grinning like a Cheshire cat', are so powerful that music and songs incorporate the imagery. Writers, artists, illustrators, a lot of them have incorporated that.

Don't take the advice of anyone you meet here. We're all mad.

Being normal isn't that miserable. Try it for a thousand years in a row, and you'll be grateful for a little zaniness.

He had that incongruity of common and elegant in which the habitually vulgar think they see the revelation of an eccentric existence, of the perturbations of sentiment, the tyrannies of art, and always a certain contempt for social conventions, that seduces or exasperates them.

She was at least seventy, tall, withered, and angular, with white hair arranged in old-fashioned sausage curls on her temples. She was dressed in the quaint and clumsy style of the wandering Englishwoman, like a person to whom clothes were a matter of complete indifference; she was eating an omelette and drinking water.

Ancak mant???n genellikle aptall?k ve deliliÄŸin de deha olarak adland?r?ld??? ÅŸu dünyada kimlerin bilge, kimlerin kaç?k olduÄŸunu söyleyebilir miyiz?

Even the Terrible Old Man who talks to leaden pendulums in bottles, buys groceries with centuried Spanish gold, and keeps stone idols in the yard of his antediluvian cottage in Water Street can only say these things were the same when his grandfather was a boy, and that must have been inconceivable ages ago, when Belcher or Shirley or Pownall or Bernard was Governor of His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay.

In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring. He lives all alone with his streaked cat in Gray's Inn, and people call him harmlessly mad.

Madness was in all the Jermyns, and people were glad there were not many of them.