Quotes About Eccentric

You don't see a fish in a chair often.

out·li·er -,l()r noun 1: something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body 2: a statistical

In Russian folklore there is an archetype called yurodivy, or the "Holy Fool." The Holy Fool is a social misfit—eccentric, off-putting, sometimes even crazy—who nonetheless has access to the truth. Nonetheless is actually the wrong word. The Holy Fool is a truth-teller because he is an outcast. Those who are not part of existing social hierarchies are free to blurt out inconvenient truths or question things the rest of us take for granted.

Religious enthusiasm among students is now an embarrassment; belief in the authority of the Bible and the deity of Jesus Christ is treated as naivety to be enlightened rather than life to be nourished. Scholars in the arts, letters, and sciences who show signs of Christian devotion are likely to be shrugged off as simplistic and eccentric.

Atheist, homosexual, eccentric, marathon-running English mathematician, A. M. Turing was in large part responsible not only for the concept of computers, incisive theorems about their powers, and a clear vision of the possibility of computer minds, but also for the cracking of German ciphers during the Second World War.

neither gay nor straight, just odd

She was an original ... She was an eccentric. She'd come alive like a fire, telling funny stories and entertaining everyone, then she'd suddenly run out of fuel, make her excuses and leave. You always knew when she'd had enough. Those that didn't would find themselves talk to the walls.

And now for something completely different . . .

Whimsical people were the type who got run over by cars without anybody really noticing or caring that much beyond the damage to the vehicle, which was usually minimal anyway, whimsical folk being kind

He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun.

There is no such thing in life as normal.

There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.

The proverbial 'mad mathematician' was more fact than fancy.

Like him, Uncle had eccentric tastes and liked old things. The difference, Silas was beginning to see, was that Uncle saw such objects as extensions of himself, of his body, essential, required, uniquely his. This thought made Silas uneasy.

What makes a scientist a "Mad Scientist"? A lack of desire to publish, mainly.

Ingen är normal.

When everyone was listening to pop music I was listening to Monty Python records.

No one says the word 'quirky' much in England. I guess because people are more naturally eccentric.

My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world.

I like playing dark, offbeat, quirky characters.

Yes, I'm quirky, loud and crazy.

My style has always been to choose the charming and quirky.

But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.