Quotes About Eccentricity

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad.

If I am just home and writing, I become very strange.

I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.

Insanity is the base for Creativity.

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

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.

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.

Aren't we all a bunch of weirdos?

People think my friend George is weird because he wears sideburns...behind his ears. I think he's weird because he wears false teeth...with braces on them.

Rule number 2 - don't listen to me!" Arriane laughed, "I'm certifiably insane!

People don't expect me to have a weird sense of humor, but I do. I'm very eccentric.

Sometimes I wonder if the human race isn't collectively as mad as a sack of door knobs.

He didn't remember ever being less weird than he was right now. In fact, as far as he could tell he had always been more or less exactly as weird as this. if not more so.

There really is no sense in pretending to be normal. Just be you because the moment you do, weirder things happen. Crazy comes back into fashion and every woman has to go out and find her some.

Follow your own weird.

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!

Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance but eccentricity and a wholly unfamiliar sense of pleasure called joy.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.

Just remember, when you're with me you're not the strangest person in the room. Go ahead, get weird on me.