Eccentric Quotes - Page 8

• I may appear to be an eccentric old man... But this is a free choice.

  Jose Mujica

  Men, Choices, May

  "Jose Mujica: The world's 'poorest' president" by Vladimir Hernandez, www.bbc.com. November 15, 2012.

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• In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion is this: Make it easy on yourself. Find a working environment where the prospect of wrestling with your muse doesn't scare you, doesn't shut you down. It should make you want to be there, and once you find it, stick with it. To get the creative habit, you need a working environment that's habit-forming. All preferred working states, no matter how eccentric, have one thing in common: When you enter into them, they compel you to get started.

  Twyla Tharp

  Creativity, Wrestling, Creative

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• Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human nature is not. Eliminating discrimination against women is important, but believing that women and men are born with indistinguishable minds is not. Freedom of choice is important, but ensuring that women make up exactly 50 percent of all professions is not. And eliminating sexual assaults is important, but advancing the theory that rapists are doing their part in a vast male conspiracy is not.

  Steven Pinker

  Believe, Men, Choices

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• 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

  Perfect, Looks

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• Since the age of 15 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.

  Robert Graves

  Passion, Age, Principles

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• There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.

  Tycho Brahe

  Orbit, Mars

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• I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.

  Andrew Hill

  Music, Crazy, Jazz

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• 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

  Food, Two, Soup

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• Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.

  Bret Lott

  Writing, Quests, Lifelong

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• SETH said: The natural person is to be found, now, not in the past or in the present, but beneath layers and layers of official beliefs, so you are dealing with an archeology of beliefs to find the person who creates beliefs to begin with. As I have said often, evidence of clairvoyance, telepathy, or whatever, are not eccentric, isolated instances occurring in man's experience, but are representative of natural patterns of everyday behavior that become invisible in your world because of the official picture of behavior and reality.

  Jane Roberts

  Past, Reality, Men

  Jane Roberts (2011). “The Magical Approach (A Seth Book): Seth Speaks About the Art of Creative Living”, p.107, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• 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

  Liars, Lying, Cutting

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.80, University of Georgia Press

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• From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire. Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes - perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars: how they will wield The mighty frame: how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb.

  John Milton

  Stars, Laughter, Moving

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 8, l. 76

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• Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics tend to be rather well-educated people - and quite another to be a faddist, by which I mean someone who tries to conjure a totally foreign aesthetic in a misplaced environment.

  Albert Hadley

  Mean, People, Design

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• I love exaggerated, and I love eccentric, but you must be comfortable. Otherwise it is nonsense. There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Shoes, Nonsense, Charming

  "Manolo Blahnik: 'There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes'". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2012.

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• It's fun to see the light in someone's eyes. It's fun to give your own eccentric experience and have it land. That's fun.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Fun, Eye, Light

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• I'd rather go with something eccentric--but beautifully eccentric.

  April Greiman

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• Ray Toro is a very eccentric, crazy genius type guy. I think he's a genius. He just got this thing at the VMA. The way he played, it makes you go 'Jesus!' He's really sweet, really kind of lovable. He's like a cartoon character.

  Gerard Way

  Sweet, Jesus, Crazy

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• The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country, these people doing their good deeds were doubtless being seen as slightly eccentric, when in reality and in an ideal world they should be deemed the most normal people of all.

  Danny Wallace

  Karma, Country, Reality

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Join Me”, p.159, Random House

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• A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.

  Toni Bentley

  Commitment, Shoes, Ballet

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• Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

  Dave Eggers

  Cute, Scarves, Dignity

  Dave Eggers (2000). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius”

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• Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.

  Jack Kerouac

  Lonely, Land, California

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses endurate. Both go mouldy.

  Julian Barnes

  Religious, Numbers, Despair

  Julian Barnes (1985). “Flaubert's parrot”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.

  Dana Carvey

  Brother, Sibling, Mean

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• Only poor people are weird. Rich people are eccentric.

  Ilona Andrews

  People, Rich, Poor

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.25, Penguin

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• I always wanted an eccentric daughter . I just never realized how well my evil plans were working.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Daughter, Evil, Plans

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.34, Scholastic Inc.

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