Quotes About Eccentricity

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. —Aristotle

In a society that valued politeness over truth, where malice and subterfuge were commonplace, even accepted, Lily's frankness was labeled an eccentricity of her "condition.

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

If [she] had come to prefer the company of odd ducks, it was possibly because they had no conception of oddity, or rather, they thought you were odd if you weren't.

We are all so weird that, really, none of us are. There are seven billion versions of strange on this freak wonder of a planet. We are all part of that. All freaks. All wonderful.

Of course a certain number of scientists have to go mad, just to keep the tradition alive.

Adventurers and loners, romantics and desperadoes, eccentrics and slow suicides—the luxuriousness of the place, its seduction and savagery, calls to the wildest among us. Alaska, the land of black moons and midnight suns.

I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners .

Eck tilts his head and gently licks Bob's ear with his long, sticky tongue. It is his special way of expressing sympathy and it is not effective.

I love it when you're demented like this.

When one goes to be introduced to the king, one must be ready to wear something that would scare small children ... Just you wait. We're off to concoct a monstrosity, dearest, a monstrosity. I must tell you, it is quite fun. We shall stand in the middle of the room and anything that we see which we would never dream of putting on a dress, we shall sew right into every seam! Bells and porcelain cherries. And, oh, we mustn't forget all that goes on underneath!

Being very strange kept people away. And if people stayed away, you could never disappoint them.

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

Barnabas the Barmy

Embrace your eccentricity and creativity, live outside the norm, and wait for the world to catch up.

Which was more fucked up than a one-legged nun doing power squats in a cucumber patch.

He is as mad as a March hare.

Normal people are rarely original, but they are sometimes bizarre.

C'est une chose admirable, que tous les grands hommes ont toujours du caprice, quelque petit grain de folie mêlé à leur science.

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

When we choose to be different, we have to expect a little attention.

what's life without a spice of stupidity

In the king's bed is always found, just before it becomes a museum piece, the droppings of the black sheep.