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I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.
— Zaha Hadid
I do some eccentric dancing.
— Roy Blount Jr.
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.
— Edith Sitwell
I suppose I'm something of an eccentric dresser.
— Michael Sheen
That so few dare be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time.
— John Stuart Mill
When you're rich, 'crazy' is just 'eccentric'.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
I'm a big fan of American vaudeville and Hollywood silent film-era slapstick and the music halls full of ridiculous, eccentric characters.
— Lenny Abrahamson
Let the mind contemplate, let the pen scribble, the oeuvre would be eccentric, peculiar to a reader's eye.
— Shilpa Sandesh
There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can.
— Laurie Colwin
Bill Veeck was a charismatic and somewhat eccentric owner-fan during the post-WWII years.
— Don Yaeger
My teachers were often very eccentric.
— Anne Waldman
Being eccentric is having a great desire to experiment without always being willing to spend much precious time thinking things through.
— Eric Vance Walton
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad.
— Jenny Offill
I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!
— Brandon Sanderson
Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.
— Walt Whitman
Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express.
— Oliver Herring
FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.
— Ambrose Bierce
Heavy resistance strength training (loads 85% 1RM) appears to evoke significant gains in maximal eccentric muscle strength.
— Marco Cardinale
Perhaps an eccentric is just off centre - ex-centric. But that contradicts a belief of mine that we've got to be centrifugal.
— Margaret Rutherford
My approach is different. My mistakes are conscious mistakes. And I learn more than those I despise way too often than those I admire.
— Harshit Walia
They tell me to be quiet
When I'd rather cause a riot
And have everyone screaming
Out their eccentric meaning. — Initially NO
When I'd rather cause a riot
And have everyone screaming
Out their eccentric meaning. — Initially NO
I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.
— Maira Kalman
I hope I'm an individual. I suppose an eccentric is a super individual.
— Margaret Rutherford
The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.
— Greg Behrendt
Stubborness and staunch, they are both same things
from different point of view, such crazy and eccentric. — Toba Beta
from different point of view, such crazy and eccentric. — Toba Beta
Normality is the new eccentric.
— Criss Jami
I guess if you're smart enough, you can do and say what you like and people just call you eccentric. It's like being old."
"Or rich," Alex said. — David Walton
"Or rich," Alex said. — David Walton
You know Boosha, of course." "Yeah," Lena says. "What is she, exactly?" "Eccentric," Jett answers immediately and without further explanation.
— Matt Wallace
I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
To lose what we never owned might seem an eccentric Bereavement but Presumption has its Affliction as actually as Claim
— Emily Dickinson
— Emily Dickinson
People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric.
— Temple Grandin
It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.
— Tobsha Learner
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
— Marilyn Hacker
I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is. But I just think 'Nashville' was a world he didn't know.
— J. D. Souther
Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.
— Edward Yourdon
Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.
— Dave Eggers
I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.
— Dorothy Kilgallen
I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.
— Dodie Smith
You're not an idiot. You're just eccentric. (Selena)
That's what they said about Mary Todd Lincoln. Until they locked her up. (Grace) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
That's what they said about Mary Todd Lincoln. Until they locked her up. (Grace) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
— Maynard James Keenan
In the same way that the really rich can never be mad (they're eccentric), so they can also never be rude (they're outspoken and forthright).
— Terry Pratchett
It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go.
— Nicolas Cage
You are eccentric when you have enough money to not be considered crazy,
— Mercedes Lackey
More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.
— Melissa McCarthy
Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.
— Mark Twain
Only poor people are weird. Rich people are eccentric.
— Ilona Andrews
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.
— Billy Eichner
I'd rather go with something eccentric
but beautifully eccentric. — April Greiman
but beautifully eccentric. — April Greiman
We do know that she's compassionate and eccentric - an excellent combination in a human being;
— Tom Robbins
If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.
— Bobby Heenan
ACLU has become eccentric and destructive.
— Newt Gingrich
People are quite frequently eccentric.
— Jane Smiley
But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight / On an ever exquisite dawn
— Kenji Miyazawa
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.
— Louise Dahl-Wolfe
I have always idolized eccentric people.
— Brandon Boyd
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.
— Eric Maisel
Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.
— Fanny Burney
Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric.
— Sara Sheridan
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.
— Douglas Coupland
A good joke doesn't necessarily need appreciation from others. One can freely laugh at one's own deserving jokes.
— Pawan Mishra
I'd rather be eccentric and artistic, than be normal and have not one inch of art flowing through my heart.
— Anthony Liccione
My beauty is my eccentricity, when I am out people stare at me and speak, look at that creative guy, unique guy, different guy.
— Amit Kalantri
My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.
— Douglas Coupland
I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.
— Saul Bellow
I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.
— Miranda Richardson
I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.
— Maureen O'Hara
Inspiration for my short stories grows from a psychic kernel, a vision of some sort or an eccentric, colorful dream.
— Lawren Leo
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
— Anton Chekhov
I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.
— David A. Stewart
Samovar is the most essential thing in Russia, especially at times of particularly awful, sudden, and eccentric catastrophes and misfortunes
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Live beyond your capability, be an eccentric with focused sincerity.
— Debasish Mridha
This was distressing. She felt like she'd done so much work to appear as eccentric as possible, and still, when it came down to it, she was sensible.
— Maggie Stiefvater
You can't be loony and rich. You've got to be eccentric if you're rich.
— Terry Pratchett
I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak.
— Lady Gaga
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.
— Madonna Ciccone
I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.
— Andrew Hill
I have described myself as being 'gently eccentric.'
— Daniel Radcliffe