Quotes About Eccentric

People that like to read are always a little fucked up.

I'm a lunatic wandering around for scraps.

Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.

It was like seeing Bill Gates at age thirteen, times two. And half of him was wearing a cheerleader uniform. Yes, I know that's a weird image.

I was neurotic and weird from an early age.

I don't think any of us are normal people.

Everything in life is a bit odd, when you come to think of it.

He was everything. The soldier who loved poetry. The historian who loved to paint. The diplomat who thrived on indiscretion. The patriot with international vision. The orderly man given to electric spontaneities. (on Winston Churchill)

Voytek is here, to fuck penguin.

He wore shoes that made her think of old French priests, bicycling

In the world of innovation, wacky wins; logical loses.

Gloriously, I've also learned that people you meet in real life are very unrealistic. The marvelous problem for fiction is to capture this preposterous, implausible and blazingly eccentric life, and to put it in a cell overnight, to sober it up until it reads believably on the page. That's what a novelist is: I'm not a creating god, I'm reality's jailor.

Mr. Lemoncello is a lot like Willy Wonka," said Kyle. "You mean crazy?" said Akimi. "I prefer the term 'eccentric'." "And Dr. Zinchenko is his Oompa-Loompa," said Sierra. Everybody started giggling. "Nah," Akimi joked, "she's too tall." "And not nearly orange enough," added Miguel.

They were all eccentric, touched, ill-intentioned, ignorant, superstitious, avaricious, or full members of nitwitry.

The Howard Hughes thing hadn't actually sounded like such a bad deal until about...oh, eight thirty-five this morning. Something about having his ex carry him to the bathroom and help him wash his balls just took all the fun out of becoming an eccentric recluse.

And the sun sank again on the grand Australian bush - the nurse and tutor of eccentric minds, the home of the weird, and of much that is different from things in other lands.

We're all mad here.

If you're used to being a maverick, then people don't get surprised when you start acting strangely.

I think all actors have a strange quirk about them. They're different than the usual run of people. They have a way of dramatizing things.

I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.

The combination of David Cassidy and William Burroughs was undeniably weird.

He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers. - Dad Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around. - Stafford

Don't you own a dodo?

I'm not mad, I'm just . . . well, differently moraled, that's all.