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Quotes About Eccentric

Nathuram's reply was: 'Please, see to it that mercy is not imposed on me. I want to show that through me, Gandhiji's non-violence is being hanged.' Taken aback by this reply, Ambedkar, who had never thought highly of Gandhiji's eccentric ideas, actually praised Godse.
~ Koenraad Elst
Ev wasn't the crunchiest chip in the bag.
~ Kristan Higgins
only crazy people capitalize every word.
~ Caroline Kepnes
In the last few years I've become an accepted eccentric at best, and a fuckup at worst. I feel like I'll let people down if I take away the behavior they've grown accustomed to disapproving of. They try to discipline me, I refuse to be disciplined. They object, I'm objectionable. We all know exactly what to do.
~ Carrie Fisher
You never know what to expect on encountering royalty. I've seen 'em stark naked except for wings of peacock feathers (Empress of China), giggling drunk in the embrace of a wrestler (Maharani of the Punjab), voluptuously wrapped in wet silk (Queen of Madagascar), wafting to and fro on a swing (Rani of Jhansi), and tramping along looking like an out-of-work charwoman (our own gracious monarch).
~ George MacDonald Fraser
Well, I want you all to be polite,' said Mother firmly, adding, 'and you're not to mention owls, Larry. She might think we're peculiar.' 'We are,' concluded Larry with feeling.
~ Gerald Durrell
You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter.
~ Robin Williams
We might define an eccentric as a man who is law unto himself, and a crank as one who having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.
~ Louis Kronenberger
Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.
~ Jack Kerouac
The whole universe was crazy and cock-eyed and extremely strange.
~ Jack Kerouac
L'universo intero era pazzo ed obliquo ed estremamente bizzarro.
~ Jack Kerouac
California—wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken down, handsome, decadent movie actors.
~ Jack Kerouac
La California de Dean… salvaje, sudorosa, importante, el país donde se unen como los pájaros los solitarios, los excéntricos, los exiliados, el país donde en cierto modo todo el mundo tiene aspecto de guapo artista de cine decadente y hundido.
~ Jack Kerouac
'Twin Peaks' has got interesting characters. They are all different from anything anyone has ever seen before. You've had bad people before. But everyone's got little quirks, and everyone's interesting.
~ Dana Ashbrook
'Twin Peaks' is my favorite American TV show.
~ Rebecca Hall
I'm just a crazy person. I mean, I really didn't have any trouble coming up with weird ways for people to die. I think I'm just very twisted!
~ Cecily von Ziegesar
Britain's such a twisted, weird little place.
~ Graham Norton
I'm a little bit twisted, so what makes me laugh the hardest doesn't necessarily make other people laugh.
~ James Gunn
We are just the most twisted, sick, hilarious people that I know.
~ Charlotte Caffey
It attracts all types. But I definitely call the comedy world the land of misfit toys. Looking around the room at my friends, that's what I see.
~ Tig Notaro
I'm kind of a weirdo; I love prison movies and war movies.
~ Kristin Chenoweth
Many great scientists and philosophers, among them René Descartes, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Immanuel Kant, Thorstein Veblen, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein, have had similarly strange and solitary personalities.
~ Sylvia Nasar
the same cast of mind is still manifest; the fascination with the eccentric, the delight in puns, the evocation of artistically controlled disorder.
~ T. Bareham
Memory is a queer creature, an eccentric curator
~ Tayari Jones