Quotes About Eccentricity

The second crazy wife. Was there any other kind?

Follow me,' Myrnin said. 'And do stay together. And by the way, this is the last time I go anywhere with you people. You are all insane.

He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny, and occasionally eats his assistants, Eve said. Define crazy.

I suspected eccentricity was often if not always a response to pain, a defense mechanism against anguish and torment and sorrow.

man who has one pet monkey might be viewed as charmingly eccentric. But a man who has made his home into a monkey house, with scores of chattering chimpanzees capering through the rooms, will have lost credibility with the mental-health authorities.

Hier gibt's keine Typen mit Schlafstörungen oder welche, die Angst vor Löchern im Bürgersteig haben. Soweit ich das aus den Akten ersehen konnte, sind die Leute hier, nun ja, richtig plemplem.

I should be so lucky to be a misfit. I aspire to be a misfit.

I am weird that I love auditioning.

I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.

You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.

I tried to start my own religion in high school. I was very eccentric. I've always loved attention.

I really admire Vivienne Westwood because she always done her own thing. She is eccentric but really great at the same time.

We should all try to embrace our own quirkiness.

Every marriage is weird! That's what it is - we just all need to start embracing the fact that there is no normal.

My dad always used to encourage me to dress weird.

Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

If the eccentric is sufficiently integrated to succeed in some field, to gain wealth or power, he is admired and respected and his oddity is overlooked. But if the eccentric fails, he is pitied or ridiculed and shunned as something strange.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

He was always telling us about a lot of creepy guys that go around having affairs with sheep, and guys that go around with girls' pants sewed in the lining of their hats and all.

Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

This morning I met a woman with a golden nose. She was riding in a Cadillac with a monkey in her arms. Her driver stopped and she asked me, "Are you Fellini?" With this metallic voice she continued, "Why is it that in your movies, there is not even one normal person?" —FEDERICO FELLINI

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.