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Quotes About Eccentricity

Cheerleader roles are really not my thing. I want things that are weird or not typical.
~ Maika Monroe
I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising.
~ Dries van Noten
Britain wouldn't have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.
~ Sara Sheridan, London Calling
Comic-Con is a special kind of crazy.
~ Denis O'Hare
When he was young and because he was off his nut, Bez would spit when he talked.
~ Shaun Ryder
Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.
~ Osbert Lancaster
my uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at an age when he and she both had more occasion for a nurse than a parson.
~ Charlotte Charke
There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.
~ Franz Schubert
Clearly Mr. Drkh has had a long career of being the weirdest person in any given room, but he's about to go down in flames.
~ Neal Stephenson
Whole sections had been taken over by the King's pack of semi-feral spaniels, who'd become inbred even by Royal standards and thus hare-brained even by Spaniel standards.
~ Neal Stephenson
Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.
~ Neil Simon
Outlandish ideas stand a better chance of success if they come with royal approval.
~ Niall Ferguson
I'm just some lunatic macaroni mushroom, is that it?
~ Joe Pesci
Lord Goth spent his time riding his hobby horse around the grounds and taking potshots at the garden ornaments with a blunderbuss. Before long he had acquired a reputation for being mad, bad and dangerous to gnomes.
~ Chris Riddell
Everyone is crazy here, Savannah. You are going to fit right in.
~ Christine Feehan
I believe that everyone in the world is crazy except you and me. And even you're a little bit strange.
~ Christopher Doyle
Christopher Fowler
~ trouser turn-up
Oh, I'm losing my marbles,' said Bryant cheerfully. 'I've gone totally East Ham. One stop short of Barking.
~ Christopher Fowler
Kayso, Foo finally came home and I jumped into his arms and sort of rode him to the ground with a massive tongue kiss so deep that I could taste the burned cinnamon toast of his soul, but then I slapped him, so he didn't think I was a slut. (Shut up, he had wood.) --Being the Journal of Abby Normal
~ Christopher Moore
Soon a whole guild of low-priced shrine keepers around Europe named their own pope - Boldface the Relatively Shameless, Discount Pope of Prague. The price war was on [...] The Retail Pope would offer cheesy bacon toppings on the Host with communion and the Discount Pope would counter with topless nun night for midnight mass.
~ Christopher Moore
Charlie found himself affecting the Emperor's formal speech patterns, as if somehow he had been transported to a royal court where a nobleman was distinguished by the crumbs in his beard and the royal guard were not above licking their balls.
~ Christopher Moore
Cry havoc, and let slip the trousers of most outrageous bonkilation!
~ Christopher Moore
Cavuto threw his arms in the air. Well, sweet Tidy Bowl Jesus skipping on the blue toilet water, we wouldn't want it to get fucking weird, would we?
~ Christopher Moore
I loved idiot paintings, tops of doors, decors, saltimbanques, canvases, signboards, popular engravings, obsolete literature, church Latin, badly-spelled pornographic works, novels by our grandmothers, fairy tales, little children's books, old operas, folk refrains, popular rhythms. —Rimbaud, "A Season in Hell
~ Tracy Daugherty