Eccentric Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

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

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.

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.

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

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.

When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.

I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.

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.

I'm pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I'm completely extraordinary, and in other ways I'm completely weird and eccentric.

Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.

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

The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.

My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

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

I think that people like the idea that fans are sort of slightly eccentric and strange, but generally I've just found them very creative and warm and cheerful.

It's fun to see the light in someone's eyes. It's fun to give your own eccentric experience and have it land. That's fun.

I do some eccentric dancing.

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

I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

I have described myself as being 'gently eccentric.'

Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world.

I've always been interested in the rest of the world. My family is very eccentric; my parents have always been very supportive of travel and doing whatever I thought I needed to do.

I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.

Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.

Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers.

Sci-fi fans are eccentric.

What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.

The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.

I believe that those who knew me [in my youth] took me for an eccentric.

If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as these people. You have to think exceptionally-a LOT!

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.

I always wanted an eccentric daughter . I just never realized how well my evil plans were working.

It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.

Normality is the new eccentric.

FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

My teachers were often very eccentric.

I've found that I seek out oddballs; I like strange and eccentric people a lot.

I like talking to a person who is crazy in a fun, eccentric way. I don't want to talk to a legitimate crazy person, because that's not nice.

Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.