Eccentric Quotes

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric. (Anton Chekhov)
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan. View quote
Uma Thurman
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog. View quote
Douglas Coupland
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. View quote
Bertrand Russell
There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals. View quote
Franz Schubert
Be virtuous and you will be eccentric. View quote
Mark Twain
I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for. View quote
Maureen O'Hara
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction. View quote
Jacques Derrida
Composition is a side issue. Its role in my selection of photographs is a negative one at best. By which I mean that the fascination of a photograph is not in its eccentric composition but in what it has to say: its information content. And, on the other hand, composition always also has its own fortuitous rightness. View quote
Gerhard Richter
In order to win over Paris and appear, in the eyes of all Europe, an absolute innovator, the most advanced of all, I urge you to get to work with all your heart, resolute on being bolder, crazier, more advanced, surprising, eccentric, incomprehensible, and grotesque than anybody else in music. I urge you to be a madman. View quote
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
It's OK to be an eccentric; it's not OK to be a rude and dirty eccentric. (Temple Grandin)
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them. View quote
Maynard James Keenan
Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions of the Dionysian festival kept him within certain bounds... But within the imposed limits Euripides was as profane as he dared to be, making melodrama of the divine realities which his predecessors accepted religiously, using the stage merely as a convenience for popularizing his own eccentric values. View quote
Laura Riding
I spent on the Other Earth many "other years," wandering from mind to mind and country to country, but I did not gain any clear understanding of the psychology of the Other Men and the significance of their history till I encountered one of their philosophers, an aging but still vigorous man whose eccentric and unpalatable views had prevented him from attaining eminence. View quote
Olaf Stapledon
When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile. View quote
George Burns
Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are. View quote
Tim Burton
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) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do. View quote
Brian May
I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast. I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed. I feigned an innocent optimism; I gradually perfected myself in the role of the farcical eccentric. View quote
Osamu Dazai
People are quite frequently eccentric. View quote
Jane Smiley
At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that. (Jon Ronson)
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. View quote
Carol Vorderman
For young people, it doesn't matter so much, but when you're older, less is definitely more - too much make-up can give you the 'eccentric Aunt Sally' look! View quote
Lulu
Jedi Masters do not crack up- they just get eccentric.- Luke Skywalker. View quote
Troy Denning
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. View quote
Crispin Glover