Quotes About Eccentric

Then, since all great poets are strange in their speech and actions, he must have achieved great fame, for his actions and conversations were the strangest of any man I ever knew.

There he lay, in a pale frothing liquid which she had, for a dreadful moment, believed to be some eccentric vital fluid of his own, but which issued from a case of broken bottles which lay near him.

It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it usefully set out in the first pages of W. Somerset Maugham's story The Book-Bag.

dark, with a mustache and a deep, resonant voice. In Kamel's opinion, Sadat wore "eccentric clothes"—a dark gray suit, a red-checked waistcoat, and an especially notable pair of white leather shoes, quite an outfit for a man on the run. Sadat immediately understood how he could employ Kamel's little "murder society," as he called it. Shooting a handful of British soldiers

One end of the spectrum of fantastical thinking is labeled "crackpot," and the other "visionary.

Above all else I am a dilettante in life.

She's stark raving mad!

Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

She's a bit...odd. You mean crazy, Ling said. I'd say eccentric. That's a nice way of saying crazy.

It may interest you that, a day or so ago, attempting to discuss your ideas with regard to sex and religion , my eccentric friend, fixing his eyes rather fiercely upon me, growled abruptly: Semen is God. Unwilling to excite him further, I replied: Sir, though I understand perfectly what you mean by Semen, I am unacquainted with the connotation which you attach to the term God.

She was tuned in to a different station from most people and the tuning dial was broken.

Being indie means being artistic and finding your own eccentric identity. The name of the game for being an indie kid is to never admit you are one. If you do, it goes against your beliefs against labeling, thus making you a hypocrite.

You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess.

Miss Trudie said, "Well, like my momma used to say, butter my butt and call me a biscuit. This takes the cake.

I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

a man who was, as we say in the restaurant business, one taco short of a combo platter.

Why must you say such eccentric things?" "Maybe I'm eccentric." "It's not something most people aspire to." "I'm not most people.

I see why you tolerate Mrs. Bevan's eccentric manners. What a pity she's forgotten cutlery." Merrick sipped his golden wine. The pleasure on his face reminded her of his expression after kissing her. Devil take him, everything reminded her of his kisses. "What a pity," he said with spurious regret. "Eating with one's fingers is so... primitive." She blushed. He turned the most innocent words into an invitation to wickedness.

Eh bien ma chère, aujourd'hui c'est très simple, vous avez devant les yeux un magnifique exemplaire d'Homo Dégénéraris, c'est-à-dire un être totalement inapte à la vie en société, décalé, saugrenu et parfaitement anachronique.

It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner.

she's half a bubble out of plumb.

I'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.

At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.