Eccentric Quotes - Page 8

• The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.

  Patrick Carney

  Fun, Play, People

  "The Black Keys". Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Actors, Way, Late

  "Jesse Eisenberg: Privacy settings engaged" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2010.

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• 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

  Roles, Facts, Reputation

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• But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.

  David E. Kelley

  Believe, Character, Quirky

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• People wanna say that they're part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We're raised to believe that there's something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I'm saying I used to tell girls that I was mixed, which is a bold-faced lie!

  Chance the Rapper

  Girl, Lying, Believe

  "Chance the Rapper remembers 'talking white' and fighting black on Acid rap" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. May 14, 2013.

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• I suppose I'm something of an eccentric dresser.

  Michael Sheen

  Dressers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Father, Academic, Lecturer

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

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• People are quite frequently eccentric.

  Jane Smiley

  People

  "Divorce! It’s Good for the Children!" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2010.

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• We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Men, Law, Might

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, 1954.

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• While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Strength, Different, Genius

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.167

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• Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle if they did. Little wonder many outside the creative world mistake (or dismiss) eccentric responses of the spirit as weakness or mental illness. But in the end, these dismissive souls will never know what it is to be moved by tears by the beauty of rose or brought to joy by sunlight filtering through the leaves of spring or autumn. The creative walk in glades invisible to those outside their realms.

  Duncan Long

  Mistake, Spring, Creativity

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• The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, And takes the most eccentric range, Is the moon--so called--of honey!

  Thomas Hood

  Moon, Shade, Honey

  Thomas Hood (1852). “Prose and verse”, p.162

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• 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

  Determination, Sight, Desire

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• It's far too easy to qualify as an eccentric nowadays.

  Stephanie Mills

  Easy

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.33, Island Press

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• What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Heart, Eye, Men

  Vincent van Gogh, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Van Gogh by Vincent”

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• It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  College, House, Waiting

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• I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  People, Compass, Share

  Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

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• Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers.

  Riki Lindhome

  Thinking, Rapper, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Agriculture, Want

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• 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

  Thinking, Cosmos, World

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• 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

  Midwest, Haunting, Firsts

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• The emphasis on original, individual work in the past years has done a great deal to produce a crop of eccentric fakes and has carried art away from the stream of tradition. Tradition is our heritage of knowledge and experience. We can't get along without it.

  John French Sloan

  Art, Past, Years

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• 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.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Country, Men, Views

  "Star Maker" by Olaf Stapledon, Dover Books, (p. 26), 1937.

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• 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.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Heart, Eye, Winning

  "Modernism: An Anthology". Book by Lawrence Rainey, p. 2, 2005.

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• Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an unmelodious verse: When the world shall cease to wonder At the genius of an Ass, And a boy's eccentric blunder Shall not bring success to pass: When mankind shall be delivered From the clash of magazines, And the inkstand shall be shivered Into countless smithereens: When there stands a muzzled stripling, Mute, beside a muzzled bore: When the Rudyards cease from Kipling And the Haggards Ride no more.

  James Kenneth Stephen

  Boys, World, Genius

  James Kenneth Stephen, “To R. K.”

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