Quotes About Eccentricity

Professor Branestawm

the most sublime of oddballs, Leonardo da Vinci

Not all crazy people are brilliant, but almost all brilliant people are crazy.

At some point, if you live long enough, it's probably impossible to avoid seeming crazy.

Wallace Boyer (Car Salesman): Sell cars long enough and you'll see: Nobody's all that original. Any lone weirdo comes from a big nest of weirdos. What's weird is, you go to some pigsty village in Slovakia, and suddenly even Andy Warhol makes perfect sense.

Writers are goofy-headed moon-units.

Solo un loco bailaría estando sobrio.

In his perversity, or his genius, or both

Southampton Row, however, is chiefly remarkable nowadays for the fact that you will always find a man there trying to sell a tortoise to a tailor.

You have to be an artist and a madman...

The tiny madman in his padded cell

Crazy? try ceiling-licking, rabies-frothing, dish-ran-away-with-the-spoon-in-fucking-sane." --Thanatos

He'd always thought Roag was one rat short of a plague.

Sometimes I think she's got hats in the belfry

That chick is certifiably out of her fucking tree. -Isaac

I'm a nosy old woman, it's a perk of getting old. You can be annoying and people just call you eccentric.

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

Eccentricities of genius.

All sorts, sir. Natives and foreigners. From gentlemen to 'prentices. I have had Frenchwomen come, before now, and show themselves dabs at pistol-shooting. Mad people out of number, of course, but they go everywhere where the doors stand open.

When, upon the closed system of normal preoccupations, a story of a sea serpent appears, it is inhospitably treated. To us of the wider cordialities, it has recommendations for kinder reception. I think that we shall be noted in recognitions of good works for our bizarre charities.

You are going to be fine — you come from a long line of lunatics.

Not all the nuts are in the can.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

He had the cast of mind that often produces cranks and misfits: a willingness, even eagerness, to consider silly ideas and plunge down wrong alleys.