Quotes About Eccentricity

15 For fifty fillérs my father would eat a fly, for one florint you could take a picture of the cadaver in his tongue, for five florints and an apple (Starking), he'd bite a mouse in two. He never worked with outsourced mice, he liked to catch his own.

In my ten years of teaching I've noticed that teachers tend to have a bad habit of talking to themselves. I hypothesize that this is because we talk for a living, and we feel safe speaking our feelings aloud. Or it could be that most of us, especially the high school teacher variety, are just weird as shit.

the one consistent thing I have found is that there really is no normal when it comes to women.

This was not Aunt Dahlia, my good and kindly aunt, but my Aunt Agatha, the one who chews broken bottles and kills rats with her teeth.

He seemed to be doing his best to marry into a family of pronounced loonies, and how the deuce he thought he was going to support even a mentally afflicted wife on nothing a year beat me. Old Bittlesham was bound to knock off his allowance if he did anything of the sort and, with a fellow like young Bingo, if you knocked off his allowance, you might just as well hit him on the head with an axe and make a clean job of it.

I knew a chap who bumped his leg, and it turned black and had to be cut off at the knee.' 'You do seem to mix with the most extraordinary people.

I felt like Doctor Watson hearing Sherlock Holmes talking about the one hundred and forty-seven varieties of tobacco ash and the time it takes parsley to settle in the butter dish.

Spink-Bottle, you ghastly goggle-eyed piece of gorgonzola

And now into the space of a few hours he had crammed enough variegated lunacy to equip all the March Hares in England and leave some over for the Mad Hatters.

if you're absolutely off your rocker, but don't find it convenient to be scooped into the luny-bin, you simply explain that, when you said you were a teapot, it was just your Artistic Temperament, and they apologise and go away.

he had put it in the hands of a young man who in all his life had only once shown genuine inspiration and initiative – on the occasion when he had parted his hair in the middle at a time when all the other members of the Bachelors' Club were brushing it straight back.

Hay un cierto placer en la locura, que solo el loco conoce.

My pre-Yamacraw theory of teaching held several sacred tenets, among these being that the teacher must always maintain an air of insanity, or of eccentricity out of control, if he is to catch and hold the attention of his students. The teacher must always be on the attack, looking for new ideas, changing worn-out tactics, and never, ever falling into patterns that lead to student ennui.

By now accustomed to Billie's personal flamboyancies, I

Vic didn't mind at all being considered odd. In fact, he was proud of it in a country in which most people aimed at being exactly like everybody else.

There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

It is a known fact that if you stand up on a chair, put your fingers in your ears, and announce "I love turnips," people will think you're weird.

You're mad, bonkers, off your head! But I'll tell you a secret: all the best people are.

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!

Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.

This is the age of oddities let loose.

We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.