Eccentric Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Laughing, Incredibles, Mum

  "Carol Vorderman: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.

  Katherine Heigl

  Rehab, Boring, Havens

  "Joker in the pack". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2008.

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• The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.

  James Joyce

  Individuality, Individual, States

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• A free society cherishes nonconformity.
  It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric,
  have come many of the great ideas.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Ideas, Cherish, Great Idea

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• The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories about God.

  Saadi

  Judging, Stories, World

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• The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.

  Wallace Stevens

  Writing, Fate, Race

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.356, Vintage

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• My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world.

  Katy Perry

  Parent, Quirky, World

  "Katy Perry: The Interview" by Rose Apodaca, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 3, 2010.

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• Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants. An average man am I, of no eccentric whim, Who likes to live his life, free of strife Doing whatever he thinks is best for him, Well, just an ordinary man

  Rex Harrison

  Life, Men, Thinking

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• 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

  People, Mad, Certain

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Murderers abroad: five complete novels”, Outlet

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• I do some eccentric dancing.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Dancing

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• Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean; geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Crazy, Ocean, Feet

  Michael J. Gelb (2014). “Creativity on Demand: How to Ignite and Sustain the Fire of Genius”, p.90, Sounds True

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• I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

  Lady Gaga

  Song, Art, Queens

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• 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.

  Rose Macaulay

  Children, Thinking, Nuts

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.

  Julian Clary

  Doors, Next, Eccentricity

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• I think guitar is the best thing in the world.

  Shaun White

  Thinking, Guitar, Sweat

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• To be simple is the best thing in the world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simple, Sweat, Simplicity

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• Sci-fi fans are eccentric.

  Traci Bingham

  Fans, Sci Fi

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express.

  Oliver Herring

  Creativity, People, Creative

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• The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.

  Marjorie Benton Cooke

  Being Yourself, Nerves, Way

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• It's okay to be eccentric if you're rich; otherwise you're just crazy.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Crazy, Rich, Okay

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• You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.

  Thomas Keneally

  Believe, Kids, Flesh

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• The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

  John Stuart Mill

  Courage, Vigor, Genius

  John Stuart Mill (2012). “On Liberty”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand.

  Louise Jameson

  Hands, Holding On, Palms

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• 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

  Suicide, Brilliant, Poet

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• 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

  Stars, Stills, Bits

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