Quotes and Sayings About Eccentric
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Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
-- A.C. Grayling -
Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world of evolution 'and unchanging causation'. It invited new ways of thinking. It demanded a new rationale for belief. With science's truths the only accessible ones, 'blind faith' was no longer admirable but 'the one unpardonable sin'.
-- Adrian Desmond -
I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.
-- Agatha Christie -
I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.
-- Andrew Hill -
I'd rather go with something eccentric--but beautifully eccentric.
-- April Greiman -
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 -
I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!
-- Brandon Sanderson -
Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.
-- Bret Lott -
Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do
-- Brian May -
Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.
-- Bruce Robinson -
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.
-- Carol Vorderman -
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.
-- Crispin Glover -
I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.
-- Crispin Glover -
Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.
-- Daniel Breaker -
I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.
-- Demi Moore -
I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.
-- Dodie Smith -
I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.
-- Dorothy Kilgallen -
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.
-- Douglas Coupland -
My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
-- Elizabeth McGovern -
The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo
-- Ellen Raskin -
Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is....
-- Ellen Terry -
I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.
-- Emma Forrest -
When I'm at an event, I like to be an eccentric dresser. I will just keep wearing what I like.
-- Eva Green -
Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.
-- Gene Tierney -
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.
-- George Burns -
The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.
-- Greg Behrendt -
I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.
-- Hayao Miyazaki -
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.
-- Henry Steele Commager -
Only poor people are weird. Rich people are eccentric.
-- Ilona Andrews
