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Quotes About Eccentric

I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane
~ Wallace Thurman
I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
~ Waylon Jennings
You take the flotsam," I tell her, "I'll take the jetsam." You always get the jetsam,"she says pretending to pout. "Do you ever think if poeple heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.
~ Wendy Mass
You are very strange." Daisy finally said, shaking her head. Miles shrugged. "In the afterlife, everybody's strange because nobody's trying to impress anyone." "Like I said, strange." "I think everyone is strange in some way," Logan said. "I mean, I am at least.
~ Wendy Mass
I hate to fall back on weird to describe them, but goofy is too weak, and strange sounds too sensible.
~ Daniel Woodrell
My dad was always snoozing on the couch, like Dagwood Bumstead. He was a lazy motherfucker. God bless him. He was always working on some kind of get-rich-quick scheme. This is what my dad was like: I'd say, Hey, Dad, we studied penguins today in school. He'd say, Yeah? I'm a penguin fucker from way back. Dad, I saw a giraffe at the zoo today. Yeah? I'm a giraffe fucker from way back. That's my dad. My dad was a giraffe fucker.
~ James Ellroy
There it was again: the entrance up the darkened ramp disclosing an expanse of amazing green, the fervent crowd contained in a stadium scaled to human dimensions, the players so close it almost seemed that you could touch them, the eccentric features of an old ballpark constructed to fit the contours of the allotted space. I
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
I do think that only a very rigid and conforming society could have produced the ideas of an eccentric in the first place.
~ Doris Lessing
To be accomplished but resented. Or to hide behind the more outré of their pursuits and be considered erratic but harmless.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
He was clearly a man of many qualities, even if they were mostly bad ones.
~ Douglas Adams
For instance, he would often gate-crash university parties, get badly drunk and start making fun of any astrophysicists he could find till he got thrown out.
~ Douglas Adams
once described by Eccentrica Gallumbits as the Best Bang since the Big One
~ Douglas Adams
I agree," he said. "You have a horse in your bathroom, and I will, after all, have a little port.
~ Douglas Adams
Many had seen it as clinching proof that the whole of known creation had finally gone banana.
~ Douglas Adams
Hay una teoría que afirma que si alguien descubriera lo que es exactamente el Universo y el porqué de su existencia, desaparecería al instante y sería sustituido por algo aún más extraño e inexplicable.
~ Douglas Adams
He struck most of the friends he had made on Earth as an eccentric, but a harmless one—an unruly boozer with some oddish habits. For instance, he would often gate-crash university parties, get badly drunk and start making fun of any astrophysicists he could find till he got thrown out.
~ Douglas Adams
Aloysius Xingu Leng Pendergast.
~ Douglas Preston
In Lake's experience, even eccentric and unconventional people carefully curated their persona. Very few truly didn't give a goddamn what others thought.
~ Douglas Preston
I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.
~ Agatha Christie
You're a man milliner, Poirot. I never notice what people have on." "You should join a nudist colony
~ Agatha Christie
Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.
~ Daniel Breaker
He's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic.
~ Lance Bass
Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.
~ Brian May
That's what my wardrobe room looks like. It's all costumes and props. It's ridiculous.
~ Bridget Marquardt