Quotes About Eccentricity

A few people paused to look at him, but Londoners were by now so accustomed to 'weirdies' of all kinds that his ritual aroused little interest.

I am the nonsense priest of the nonsense god!

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.

Life is not like a murder mystery. In mysteries people always do the same thing. Then when some little thing is out of line, some wise-guy amateur detective makes big deductions. In real life, people don't do the same things all the time. They do different things at different times. In real life, people are crazy.

Lord Dorwin took snuff. He also had long hair, curled intricately and, quite obviously, artificially, to which were added a pair of fluffy, blond sideburns, which he fondled affectionately. Then, too, he spoke in overprecise statements and left out all the r's.

Aquí la locura se repartió entre todos y no sobró nada para tener nuestro propio loco de remate.

He had calling cards with his family crest on them and respected all the known rules of urbanity as well as some of his own invention, such as eating artichokes with tongs, which provoked general stupefaction.

England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humours.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

There's a pinch of the madman in every great man.

Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.

You can literally walk into my apartment and sit on a hat; you can step on a hat; you can probably open up the refrigerator and find a hat tucked under some rotten food. I have a lot of hats.

Sometimes it's the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

You're not weird, are you? (Jack) Not particularly, no. (Syd) Well, good. I got enough weirdness for the lot of us. Don't want to share it. (Jack)

I probably am. I think Paul Giamatti also said in an interview that I was "f--king crazy." I'm flattered by that. I want to be that guy who's nuts who makes people think.

You forgot the 'my precious,'" Anna said dryly. "If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.

Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old gentleman in a worn dressing-gown and torn slippers, who got up and went to bed at odd times of day, and who kept up a continual conversation with friends no one else could see.

How can you sit here and know that day... three I'm not going to be driving you crazy because I laugh like a horse or...or... dress up your penis in Barbie clothes?

One man in a fluffy robe holds only an overripe banana.

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

Everyone is so weird in L.A. that if you're somewhat normal, it's exotic.

Well, I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them.