Quotes About Eccentric

Which was more fucked up than a one-legged nun doing power squats in a cucumber patch.

I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.

I have often been called eccentric by the detectives and one of the reasons for this is that I have a large cloth covering my desk. It hangs down on to the floor.. Underneath my desk I have several large pillows and whenever I need time out, I creep into my little private enclave to think.

He is as mad as a March hare.

it looks a little eccentric or at the very least as though her washing machine's broken and this outfit is made up of the only clean clothes she could find.

I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

My mother is a wonderful, eccentric lady who has no concept whatever of interior monologue. We'll be driving along in the car and she'll suddenly say, 'Ants don't like cucumbers, you know. And roaches don't like cinnamon. Do you want some cheese, Michael? Rembrandt was the Lord of the day.' -Mike Myers

You must be ready to be called a 'madman' too, another name for genius in our generation.

she said, you're strange... but don't change, and I let her.

Aww. You're sweet when you're neurotic.

The question that remains to be answered, they went on, is whether that reading class will have the "power and prestige associated with an increasingly rare form of cultural capital" or will be viewed as the eccentric practitioners of "an increasingly arcane hobby.

The princess of perverted plants and the demented vampire have come to join us! How absolutely thrilling!

Extending discipline for the minority to everyone else at the same time seems particularly cruel. As I grow older, I have begun to understand more and more how ethics taught in school and public mores are two different things. Those who insist on keeping ethics in school look like fools. People think they're eccentric. They'll never succeed, they'll always be penniless.

bohemian proclivities

He was also bug-nuts.

Why darling, I'm your Auntie Mame!

Popular, gentle, solitary and eccentric, Wyndham lived with his mother, wore heavy glasses and high-waisted trousers, gave off random murmurs and squeaks, and moved with an amphibian gait.

I had no concept of what life at the Chelsea Hotel would be like when we checked in, but I soon realized it was a tremendous stroke of luck to end up there. We could have had a fair-seized railroad flat in the East Village for what we were paying, but to dwell in this eccentric and damned hotel provided a sense of security as well as a stellar education. The goodwill that surrounded us was proof that the Fates were conspiring to help their enthusiastic children.

Someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly.

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

It is my wish to die of unique causes, perhaps in a high-speed tricycle crash, a bizarre stapling incient, or as a result of inadvertently sucking my brains out through my ear while trying to untwist the vacuum hose.

How can one interpret a Bible "full of alien genealogies, barbaric practices, strange prophecies, and eccentric epistles"? While we