Quotes About Eccentricity

Don't laugh, the love of books is a charming eccentricity: it is respectable, it is innocent, it proves you have an honest soul, a contented mind. To love books is to renounce games, good eating, useless luxury, horse-racing, political ambition, the pains of love. In his library the bibliophile is King.

whom she had always been rather fond of, despite his unfortunate interest in taxidermy.

Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.

It's insane but it's a great insane.

I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting?

I'm a little insane, and I'm going to be a little different. But hopefully, somewhere in there, in that creative arena, something will emerge that is new and different and unique.

I adore Britain! It's my favourite country; I love their eccentricity. I find Britain so inspiring.

I think that Zappa intentionally made his music weird, but did it with intelligence.

Sometimes, the other characters are too normal and then you start to be brought back to reality but then Luna shows up and she is just so funny and cool and honest and slightly mad and she's all that matters. She is 100% true. She puts on no shows, because she is so comfortable with herself.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.

Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

It was as if somebody had found a gentle, dignified old lady whose friends were all dead and forced her to wear a funny hat.

Now here's the thing about being a little off-center; you're never sure if you're a bona fide loon or if you have insight that other people don't have.You have to navigate through life using a kind of psychic gyroscope to keep from falling too far one way or another, and you feel a peculiar kinship with other people who are also a little bit off-center.

Repeatedly Yates went berserk—raging over grievances old and new, hurling furniture at phantoms out of his past. The nurses who lived upstairs complained about the racket to the landlady, an eccentric woman who adored Yates and did nothing.

He's the kind of person that would inspire crazy people.

There must be room in our world for eccentricity, even if it offends the prudes, and room for the vague other-worldliness that often goes with genius.

Singularity in dress argues eccentricity of character. A queer cut of the coat represents a crotchet in the brain.

Properly, eccentricity is not so much a component of genius, as it is a consequence of the habits of men of genius. The reputation for genius is usually acquired by severe and protracted intellectual labor. This occasions repeated reactions from an extreme tension to an extreme relaxation of spirits--the transitions expressing themselves in sharp and abrupt impulses.

Myron looked at the door as Zorra entered in all his sartorial splendor. He wore his Veronica Lake–on–meth wig, a green monogrammed sweater, and a skirt in a hue Zorra would undoubtedly call "sea foam." When

But good old Albert, aka Vic, whooped and howled like a Belgian wolfhound getting a glucose enema.

I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies - Scout

We saw Uncle Jack every Christmas, and every Christmas he yelled across the street for Miss Maudie to come marry him. Miss Mauide would yell back, Call a little louder, Jack Finch, and they'll hear you the post office, I haven't heard you yet! Jem and I thought this a strange way to ask for a lady's hand in marriage, but then again Uncle Jack was rather strange.

Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies. But