Quotes About Eccentric

Quand un homme voit plus loin que les autres, c'est qu'il a quelque chose de dérangé dans sa cervelle

Every household needs one piece of furniture in really bad taste.

Everything for me has always been opposites; nothing has ever been in the middle... My life never had anything normal or in the center.

When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!

I was the kid who was too geeky for the other kids.

I've always kind of been an outcast.

I don't have to try to be outrageous. I am outrageous.

There's a lot of comedy in being the outsider. You can say, 'That's weird. Why do you do it that way? That's foreign to me. That's pretty weird.'

If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'

the complete lack of interest he had always shown in forcing himself on male partners marked Claudius out as a true eccentric. Not that people particularly disapproved – for it was the way of the world that different men had different foibles, and just as some might prefer blondes and others brunettes, so were there a few who only ever fucked females, and a few who only ever fucked males.

We are all Strangers . . . Some of us are just Stranger than others.

just another of the thousands of jobs rural policemen get solving little social problems among people turned eccentric by an overdose of dramatic skyscapes, endless silence and loneliness.

Tuo kalastaja on höperö, hänellä on meriheinää päässä.

Gotham City isn't like anywhere else," Dr. Leland said with a faint, sad smile. "People who come here from other, more conventional cities find it hard to understand our brand of normal.

it was just a version of Rimbaud in Harar: the exile, a selfish beast with modest fantasies of power, secretly enjoying a life of beer drinking and scribbling and occasional mythomania in a nice climate where there were no interruptions, such as unwelcome letters or faxes or cell phones. It was an eccentric ideal, life lived off the map.¨

Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in well anywhere else.

My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.

But you're like me," he says. "An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

You will die, and when you die, you will know a profound lack of it [dignity]. It's never dignified, always brutal. What's dignified about dying? It's never dignified. And in obscurity? Offensive. Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. And it's fleeting and incredibly mercurial. And subjective. So fuck it.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. And it's fleeting and incredibly mercurial. And subjective. So fuck it.

Dignity is an affection, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

Strange in a familiar way, familiar in a strange way.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.