Quotes About Eccentricity

They've said 'Roseanne's nuts' for years, and now I'm going to make that a reality - I'm all about nuts now, macadamia nuts!

I'm used to people thinking I'm nuts. And you know what? I kind of love it.

I don't know anybody who's any good who isn't nuts.

It's always exciting to play characters who are obsessive because all their energy is so focused on that one thing and they're eccentric because of it.

There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York. (on Tom Wolfe)

When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church said Ceas, When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wacko

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

It is only to the sentimentalist over some tame midland prospect that man appears vile. In Sirene he holds his own with the sublime eccentricity of the natural scene. In Sirene he lives.

I sat there watching him examine the fish and marvelling at what we'd caught. A genuine eccentric Oxford don. They're an extinct species, too...

All writers are insane!

Lord'. I help the pastor unload the car and carry stuff to a cake stand right next to the train tracks. He installs me there, as caretaker of the cake stand, and – get this – I have to wear a fucken choir gown. Vernon Gucci Little, in his unfashionable Jordan New Jacks, with fucken choir gown.

No one likes to admit it, but Hollywood is the only place you don't get locked up for being crazy.

Well, get used to it, the whole world is nuts.

Because a lot of people think they're crazy, but in that craziness we see genius.

As the New Yorker art critic Adam Gopnik once wrote, "Leonardo remains weird, matchlessly weird, and nothing to be done about it."11

I'm clearly insane. I'm threatening your life with a toothbrush

America's always been a great place to be crazy. It just used to be harder to make a living that way.

This is a great country, in no small part because it is the best country ever devised in which to be a public crank. Never has a nation so dedicated itself to the proposition that not only should people hold nutty ideas, but they should cultivate them, treasure them, shine them up, and put them right up there on the mantelpiece. This is still the best country ever in which to peddle complete public lunacy. In fact, it's the only country to enshrine that right in its founding documents.

What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes.

I assume they're still there, ostriching themselves and eating paint chips, or whatever it is they do in their spare time. I

Yes I am a little bit crazy. But the rest of the human race is mad.

Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, "People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange.

Miscavige keeps a number of dogs, including five beagles. He had blue vests made up for each of them, with four stripes on the shoulder epaulets, indicating the rank of Sea Org Captain. He insists that people salute the dogs as they parade by. The dogs have a mini-treadmill where they work out.