Eccentric Quotes

I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.

I'd rather go with something eccentric--but beautifully eccentric.

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

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

A dash of eccentric glamour gives you the power to keep the wrong kind of men away.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

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.

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.

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.

I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is.

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.

There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.

I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!

Anybody talented in any way - they're called eccentric.

I suppose I'm something of an eccentric dresser.

Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do

I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

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

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

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

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.

I have always idolized eccentric people.

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

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.

I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.

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

I do some eccentric dancing.

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

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.