Quotes About Eccentricity

I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.

If you see me at a restaurant, blow me a kiss, wave, blow me another kiss, then walk five steps backward.

If people weren't watching, I'd be so much more eccentric. I know it makes me sound weak, but rather than make myself happy and wear the silly hat and say, 'Oh, I don't care,' I actually really don't feel like getting made fun of. So I put on something boring and navy and go out and try to disappear.

Crazy players love me. I don't know why.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to.

We want to sound like a band you can't clone or even categorize. We like to throw everyone off.

It's interesting: composers can be very funny ducks.

I appreciate people who sway to the beat of their own tambourine, like Iris Apfel and Helena Bonham Carter.

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

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.

I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.

Third, I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.

It's not that gays and diversity equal high technology. But if your culture is not such that it can accept difference, and uniqueness and oddity and eccentricity, you will not get high tech industry.

you have to flaunt the weird, my friends.

I try not to think," Leo admitted. "It interferes with being nuts.

As we say in this part of the world," he said to the Discovery, "there's nowt so queer as folk.

It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose their appeal.

The insouciance of youth doesn't stay, but shades into "eccentricity," as people say when they are trying to be kind, until finally you become just another lonely crackpot. But I've always been this way. The strangeness just used to seem more fashionable, probably.

Dearly departed, scarcely lamented, deeply demented...

Everyone had heard what happened and they were all so pleased, so very pleased. Which seems a little odd, but in Cainsville "a little odd" was the norm.

Which one of you claims to be the craziest? Which one is the biggest loony? Who runs these card games

There's all different kinds of people, but I don't think it's that unusual that once you get like a little power, you get to do your weird thing even more.

Minds need the unusual, because the unusual has the power to shake the mind!