Eccentric famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
-- A.C. Grayling -
Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world of evolution 'and unchanging causation'. It invited new ways of thinking. It demanded a new rationale for belief. With science's truths the only accessible ones, 'blind faith' was no longer admirable but 'the one unpardonable sin'.
-- Adrian Desmond -
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 -
I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.
-- Andrew Hill -
I'd rather go with something eccentric--but beautifully eccentric.
-- April Greiman -
If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.
-- Bobby Heenan -
I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!
-- Brandon Sanderson -
Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.
-- Bret Lott -
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 -
Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.
-- Bruce Robinson -
I've never once heard my mum shout and she's 83 now. She's incredible. She's very, very happy, slightly eccentric but loves laughing, which I do too.
-- Carol Vorderman -
Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.
-- Crispin Glover -
I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.
-- Crispin Glover -
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 -
I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.
-- Demi Moore -
I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.
-- Dodie Smith -
I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.
-- Dorothy Kilgallen -
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.
-- Douglas Coupland -
My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
-- Elizabeth McGovern -
The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo
-- Ellen Raskin -
Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is....
-- Ellen Terry -
I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.
-- Emma Forrest -
When I'm at an event, I like to be an eccentric dresser. I will just keep wearing what I like.
-- Eva Green -
Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.
-- Gene Tierney -
When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.
-- George Burns -
The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.
-- Greg Behrendt -
I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.
-- Hayao Miyazaki -
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.
-- Henry Steele Commager -
Only poor people are weird. Rich people are eccentric.
-- Ilona Andrews -
A dash of eccentric glamour gives you the power to keep the wrong kind of men away.
-- Isabel Toledo -
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
-- Jacques Derrida -
My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.
-- Jay McInerney -
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
-- John Stuart Mill -
At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.
-- Jon Ronson -
I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.
-- Katherine Heigl -
There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can.
-- Laurie Colwin -
That's what being eccentric means--being natural.
-- Lorraine Hansberry -
You can't get a bad picture out of Bacall. There's nothing eccentric about her. She's perfect all over and yet she looks like nobody else.
-- Louise Dahl-Wolfe -
Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand.
-- Louise Jameson -
I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share ...
-- Mabel Osgood Wright -
I always wanted an eccentric daughter . I just never realized how well my evil plans were working.
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
I love exaggerated, and I love eccentric, but you must be comfortable. Otherwise it is nonsense. There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.
-- Manolo Blahnik -
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
-- Marilyn Hacker -
The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.
-- Marjorie Benton Cooke -
I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.
-- Matthew McConaughey -
She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.
-- Michael Cunningham -
I suppose I'm something of an eccentric dresser.
-- Michael Sheen -
I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.
-- Miranda Richardson -
Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.
-- Peter Higgs -
My music has a high irritation factor. I`ve always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was is joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccetricity to the bland.
-- Randy Newman -
You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.
-- Rupert Everett -
An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured the Ashes for England [on Pietersen's Ashes winning innings, 2005
-- Simon Barnes -
It's far too easy to qualify as an eccentric nowadays.
-- Stephanie Mills -
No doubt, a scientist isn't necessarily penalized for being a complex, versatile, eccentric individual with lots of extra-scientific interests. But it certainly doesn't help him a bit.
-- Stephen Toulmin -
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
-- Steven Brust -
I never took the bus. Never. Walking meant you were eccentric or pious or a loser - riding the bus meant you were insane or masochistic and worse than a loser.
-- Susan Straight -
It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.
-- Tobsha Learner -
Jedi Masters do not crack up- they just get eccentric.- Luke Skywalker
-- Troy Denning -
There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.
-- Tycho Brahe -
The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium. Of the three primary forms, it points most clearly to the fourth dimension.
-- Wassily Kandinsky -
I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.
-- Zaha Hadid -
I've found that I seek out oddballs; I like strange and eccentric people a lot.
-- Arthur Bradford -
In training, don't be afraid to be an oddball, eccentric, or extremist. Only by daring to go against tradition can new ways of training be learned. The trick is recognizing quickly when a new approach is counterproductive.
-- Benji Durden -
I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.
-- David A. Stewart -
I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.
-- Maureen O'Hara -
I think Björk is playing on the fact she knows she's eccentric and she accepts the fact.
-- Thomas Mars -
Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.
-- Edward Yourdon
