Quotes About Eccentricity

You are really nuts, you know it? One a these days they're gonna come over and just lock you up! You aren't playing with a full deck, Eunice. I think somebody blew your pilot light out. There's more. You know what? You got splinters in the windmill of your mind. You're playin hockey with a warped puck! I think you dine sprung a leak in your dingey....

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

I think that something needs to be weird in order to have real beauty.

I don't like things that are obvious and so I always try to introduce something that is wrong, something that is different. Just beauty by itself is too easy.

Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.

If I was made of chocolate I would melt myself in a car to ruin the interior.

I'm not good at normal things. I can't drive a car. I couldn't read till I was 10.

That, child, is one of the glorious advantages to being a madman. I don't have to make sense. It's very liberating. You should try it sometime.

She's not royalty for Christ's sake. She's a Grape.

When the going get's weird, the weird turn pro.

Dane lived above a greengrocer's shop at 26 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, with her secretary, Olwen Bowen, herself a writer of children's books, but who now devoted herself to the care of her companion. 'One climbed up a rickety staircase and there was Winifred, surrounded by her paintings, sculptures, a piano and goodness knows how many books, where she would give many after-the-theatre parties . . .

There's nothing worse than a perceptive universe if there's something weird about you.

We really do see astigmatically, in fundamental sense: our space and our time creations of our own psyche, and when these momentarily falter—like acute disturbance of middle ear. Occasionally we list eccentrically, all sense of balance gone.

She's mad. Best leave her be, in case it's catching.

People are pretty fucking weird, if you haven't noticed.

I never knew whether I was drawn to eccentric people or if they were drawn to me.

You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find.

If someone invented a thermometer that measured weirdness, it would probably melt under my tongue.

It's okay to be eccentric, as long as you are rich; otherwise you're just crazy.

para la gente vulgar la genialidad se parece a la locura.

I promised myself that I would go through everything thoroughly; I would try the ceilings, and floors, and walls, and cornices to discover all the gold, hoarded with such passionate greed by a Dutch miser worthy of a Rembrandt's brush. In all the course of my professional career I have never seen such impressive signs of the eccentricity of avarice.

Mother Tibbs made but an indifferent housemaid, for she spent most of her time at the garden gate, waving her handkerchief to the passers-by. And if, when at her work, she heard the sound of a fiddle or flute, however distant, she would instantly stop whatever she was doing and start dancing, brandishing wildly in the air broom, or warming-pan, or whatever domestic implement she may have been holding in her hands at the time.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.