Eccentricity Quotes

Eccentricity Quote of the day

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance but eccentricity and a wholly unfamiliar sense of pleasure called joy.

Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

My eccentricity became direction.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

Eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

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

Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in.

There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

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

Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.

Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

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

We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.

Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have.

Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them.

Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.

I felt it would to add a great deal to my legend for eccentricity.

[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect.

Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with the irrational.

Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!

Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.

It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so often called themselves reason and science.

Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and without eccentricity.

The Brits always favor the underdog. There's an eccentricity to us, and I think you can see that through the fash- ion and the music and the way people look.

I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.

There's tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that's okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don't know what to do with all those feelings.

Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property.

At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the old Law & Order in New York today. It's a different city.

Eccentricities of genius.

Eccentricity is developed monomania.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.

Originals cost more than imitations.

Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.

My family has always believed that when we are faced with large and apparently impossible problems, the best solutions are found by the insane people, not the sensible ones.

My beauty is my eccentricity, when I am out people stare at me and speak, look at that creative guy, unique guy, different guy.