Quotes About Eccentricity

The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.

And this? Aldhelm of Malmesbury. Listen to this page: 'Primitus pantorum procerum poematorum pio potissimum paternoque presertim privilegio panegiricum poemataque passim prosatori sub polo promulgatas.' ... The words all begin with the same letter! The men of my islands are all a bit mad, William said proudly.

most of them won't have a book in the house, though, when they have to, they'll talk about the latest book that's selling millions of copies around the world. Our readers may not read books, but they are fascinated by great eccentric painters who sell for billions.

That man is … odd," I dared say to William. "He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal. Ubertino

Wo er einen Kopf haben sollte, hat er einen alten Bücherschrank. Einen wurmstichigen.

He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.

Woo the muse of the odd.

Normal people think I'm insane.

There is unique pleasure in introducing the bizarre and inconceivable to others.

Everybody is bizarre and disgusting and interesting and fixated on fetishes they wouldn't admit to their grandmother on pain of vaporization and worthy of love. You are bizarre and disgusting and interesting and fixated on fetishes you wouldn't admit to your grandmother on pain of vaporization and worthy of love.

She always gave the impression of having accidentally wandered in from a mad scientist's conference, and felt rather desperate to get back.

All things counter, original, spare, strange...

said Mrs Bradley, looking like a benevolent alligator and then suddenly screeching like a slightly demented macaw.

There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

I Sellotape whole tins of sardines to my face at night, attach two squeezed lemon rinds to my armadillo-skinned elbows, and put cucumber on my eyes. By the time I'm finished, I look like a fruit salad with added fish. In the morning, the pillow is pretty much a write-off.

I might occasionally forget how to open a car door and have too many shower curtains, but I've got some standards.

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.

I've been arrested several times. I've been known to dress in ludicrous fashions. I've also built a career out of negative reviews.

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.

Charles James was a dear friend of mine when I was a little boy - 17, 18. He was mad as a hatter. I had no idea how famous he was.

Being a freak isn't the same thing as having a talent.