Quotes About Eccentricity

So often at home in the West Village, I'm like, 'Why aren't I allowed a horse?' I would keep a horse in a stable in my apartment, and I would fit him with rubber shoes, and we'd just roll him out. If I needed to go to a meeting somewhere, I'd just get on my horse and go across town.

That's what being eccentric means--being natural.

It was like playing with a jack-in-the-box. It looked like a normal box, until the crazy person popped out.

Having known many artists in his life, especially through Clara, he'd grown to realize they were often not the most stable, or house-trained, individuals.

I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them.

the other he keeps away from church. People get out of his way when he appears once in a twelve-month down here among us. We all fear him and he is really just like a heathen or an old Indian, with those thick grey eyebrows and that huge uncanny beard. When he wanders along the road with his twisted stick we are

rum-drinking pirates, strong-willed women, courtly manners, eccentric behavior, gentle words, and lovely music.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.

There are some loony people in this world!

People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them.

Luxury means that you show the way you dress with eccentricity.

I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!

We have always appealed to people outside of the mainstream. Constantly, we get people coming up to us and saying, 'I was just the freakiest one in high school. I was the only one who kept playing the B-52's.'

Marshall Plumlee. One of the weirdest/greatest guys I've met.

Perhaps she was a little mad, but then old women often were.

We can't all be Mad Hatters," said Howl.

Why do they spend their time with cows when they are surely the more natural companions to unicorns, griffins and dragons? The answer is that the rook lives as he wishes. When he wants the entertainment of human company he is more likely to seek out the drunken poet or the wild-eyed crone than a damsel with a cornet.

rare, and as the household descended from eccentricity into chaos

Clowns, hoboes, gypsies, and furry animals of all kinds scattered madly and dived for cover. No doubt they thought I'd finally lost it and was planning to lob more grenades.

A raving loony. She must be," Billy

I'm a nut, I know I'm a nut, I enjoy being a nut so I'll stay a nut.

Then there is the modern passion for nature. When it is not stockbrokers out after a moose, it is a crowd of brainless conformists camping out on order and as they are told. Nowhere is there any initiative or eccentricity.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

There is a pleasure sure in being mad which none but madmen know -John Dryden