Eccentricity Quotes
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Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. (Quote by - Allen Ginsberg)
Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please. (Quote by - Sir Philip Sidney)
The lunatic fringe wags the underdog. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all. (Quote by - Edward de Bono)
Let's have no talk of temperamental, self-absorbed and petulant babies. Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on. (Quote by - Charles Saatchi)
You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go. (Quote by - Nicolas Cage)
I always was a rebel... but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted... and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not. (Quote by - John Lennon)
Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank. (Quote by - Rose Macaulay)
I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses. (Quote by - Norman Mailer)
It seems that one has to be sick, depressed, weird or tortured to be thought of as an outstanding artist. (Quote by - LeslieAnn Butler)
Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them. (Quote by - Prince Charles)
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. (Quote by - Steven Brust )
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements. (Quote by - Queen Elizabeth II)
ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Adam was human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors. (Quote by - George Santayana)
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be. (Quote by - Rumi)
Say Mark... you know just what I want, three trees... Black spruce rough cold looking trees you know what I mean. Trees against a cold green grey northern sky - where can I get them at once? (Quote by - Tom Thomson)
If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different. (Quote by - Robert Ornstein)
Be virtuous and you will be eccentric. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Maybe he was crazy. Maybe crazy is what they call anybody who's got magic in them after they're no longer a child. (Quote by - Robert R. McGammon)
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? (Quote by - Ursula K. LeGuin)
Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind. (Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater)
The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate. (Quote by - Wallace Stevens)
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. (Quote by - Dame Edith Sitwell)
Eccentricity, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Eccentricity comes from the mind and a playfulness about life and language, manifesting itself in real individualistic character. (Quote by - Coulter Watt)
The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself. (Quote by - Leonardo da Vinci)
Creativity is at the heart of eccentricity. (Quote by - David Weeks)
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all. (Quote by - William S. Burroughs)
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. (Quote by - Nikos Kazantzakis)
I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain. (Quote by - Tom Waits)
I'm from the Delbert Home for the Unusual. (Quote by - Jonathan Winters)
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even, if you will, eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned impostor couldn't be happy with. (Quote by - Joseph Brodsky)
Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength. (Quote by - Unknown Author)
People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives. (Quote by - Ray Bradbury)
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. (Quote by - Michelangelo)
Excellent day for putting Slinkies on an escalator. (Quote by - unknown)
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. (Quote by - John Muir)
Sometimes people say I should see a therapist, but I don't want any therapist wrecking my weirdness. (Quote by - Peter Wolf)
True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind. (Quote by - Isabella Rossellini)
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird. (Quote by - Paul McCartney)
mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
I've always been kind of an escape artist. I think that I thought the day-to-day reality of things was unbearably flat. (Quote by - Sharon Stone)
I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position. (Quote by - Pat Conroy)
The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society. (Quote by - Eric Maisel)
I have a lot of tics and phobias. I hate to travel. I hate to go to festivals. I hate it when somebody gets close behind me. I'm scared of the darkness. I hate open doors. (Quote by - Ingmar Bergman)
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. (Quote by - Robin Williams)
My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. (Quote by - Martin Short)
Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. (Quote by - Cecil Beaton)
Eccentric people have these happy obsessive preoccupations, and a wonderful, unusual sense of humor, and this gives them a significant meaning in life. And they are far healthier than most people because of that. (Quote by - David Weeks)
The amount of eccentricity in a society has been proportional to the amount of genius, material vigor and moral courage which it contains. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test. (Quote by - Karl Kraus)
Imagination is more important than knowledge (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
I didn't want to even stand next to any high rise building as long as I lived... I didn't even want to go over a bridge. (Quote by - Stephen King)
I was intrigued and enormously drawn to extremism by people who had blown their lives or who had taken their lives outside the normal conventions of society. (Quote by - Brett Whiteley)
Men are of necessity so mad, that not to be mad were madness in another form. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb – you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier. (Quote by - Cornelia Parker)
Thou strange piece of wild nature! (Quote by - Colley Cibber)
There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. It's always preferable to be in trouble with others. In fact, it may be essential. (Quote by - Tom Robbins)
The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door. (Quote by - Julian Clary)
A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. (Quote by - Malcolm Muggeridge)
People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a 'mad clown'. (Quote by - Vaslav Nijinsky)
What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance? (Quote by - Theodore Roethke)
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. (Quote by - Vincent van Gogh)
When I would make a figure that was so distorted it was hardly like a figure, I got a maniacal impulse to write "figure" in a couple of paintings. I did some writing in the paintings. And then I saw the graffiti...It does give me a certain kind of whimsy... (Quote by - George McNeil)
Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that seemed inconsistent with poetic principles; which has sometimes won me the reputation of an eccentric. (Quote by - Robert Graves)
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. (Quote by - George Santayana)
No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)
The man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. (Quote by - Edith Sitwell)
We saw Tom come almost at a run over the Joe Lake Portage. Canoe over his head. Throwing his canoe into the water he seized his paddle like a mad man to our wharf - here he pulled up his canoe in haste and up into our cabin. (Quote by - Mark Robinson)
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world. (Quote by - Kathleen Norris)
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
Eccentricity is developed monomania. (Quote by - Bayard Taylor)
My most creative mode occurs in the bathtub. I'm a horizontal thinker. (Quote by - Marty Gibson)
So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him - (Quote by - pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it? (Quote by - Laurence Sterne)
Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. (Quote by - Hunter S. Thompson)
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. (Quote by - Bertrand Arthur William Russell)
Oddities and singularities of behavior may attend genius; but when they do, they are its misfortunes and blemishes. The man of true genius will be ashamed of them, or at least will never affect to be distinguished by them. (Quote by - Sir William Temple )
It's far too easy to qualify as an eccentric nowadays. (Quote by - Stephanie Mills)
Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend. (Quote by - Jim Harrison)
What am I in the eyes of most people, a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person--somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody has in his heart. (Quote by - Vincent Van Gogh)
I was so upset yesterday that I made the blunder of throwing myself in the water. Fortunately, there were no bad results. (Quote by - Claude Monet)
Men have called me mad, but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence – whether much that is glorious – whether all that is profound – does not spring from disease of thought – from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)
Being different, being against the grain of society, is the greatest thing in the world. (Quote by - Elijah Wood)
Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
