Eccentric Quotes - Page 2

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.

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.

I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.

Hang on to your eccentricities, because they will give you a style.

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

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.

You know, I am kind of a bi-polarish schitzerphrenic. I run the gamut of being incredibly shy and withdrawn to being a crazy-eccentric exhibitionist. And I have always been like that.

I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

That's what being eccentric means--being natural.

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.

At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.

The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo

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.

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.

It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.

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.

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.

When I'm at an event, I like to be an eccentric dresser. I will just keep wearing what I like.

To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.