87 Eccentric Quotes for You to Enjoy

I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff. Lady Gaga

Love Crazy Eccentric More Stuff Versace

In Britain, British history is naturally a mainstream subject. Step outside your own narrow specialism, and you can find yourself treading on someone else's toes. But in America, British history is an eccentric, minority pursuit, and while this can be intellectually isolating, it also permits extraordinary freedom. Linda Colley

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Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment. Liv Tyler

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! Lulu

You People Matter Too Much Young Older Too Definitely Eccentric Give More Look Aunt Sally Young People Much Less

Perhaps an eccentric is just off centre - ex-centric. But that contradicts a belief of mine that we've got to be centrifugal. Margaret Rutherford

Mine Eccentric Perhaps Got Off Just Centre Belief

Bizarrely, I actually feel safer the older I get, like people will expect less from me, and I can become more and more invisible, yet more and more eccentric. Marian Keyes

Me People Will Become Older Eccentric More More And More Feel Invisible Like Safer Expect Get Less Actually

I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect. Marian Seldes

Funny You Eccentric Know Because Odd Expect

The sculptor Frosty Myers and I met when we were bidding against each other at an auction. He's an eccentric, a liberal with a collection of rifles, and his stuff is big art. We share a love of tractors. I'm trading him one for a piece of art. Mark Ruffalo

I look up to the older generation of men - Arthur Scargill, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn - but my main role model has been my step-granddad Jim. He's brilliant, very political, quite eccentric. Maxine Peake

We weren't your mainstream '50s family. Both my parents had wonderful, eccentric, artistic friends who treated us as friends as well. How your mind worked was considered important. Melissa Mathison

With the possible exception of steampunk aficionados, many reasonable people must view my fascination with Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction - mysteries, fantasy, and adventure - as eccentric or merely antiquarian. Michael Dirda

People Mysteries Possible Must Eccentric Exception Merely Adventure Edwardian Fiction Victorian Fantasy View Reasonable Many Popular Fascination

I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing. Michael J. Fox

Other Other Kids Way Kid Kids Outgoing Eccentric More Talker Reader Were Very Curious Maybe Little Even Early

I'll be seen as eccentric, like Vic Reeves or Spike Milligan, which would be amazing. But I suppose I'm in this weird transitional period between having some success doing weird stuff and not being eccentric yet. I'm in limbo. Noel Fielding

As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories. Pankaj Mishra

I would probably choose supporting roles if I had to make a choice. It's actually a really hard thing to say. It's all on a role-by-role basis, ultimately. I shouldn't be so quick to say that. I feel like you're given greater license to be colorful and eccentric in supporting roles, and that's interesting to me. Paul Giamatti

Me You Say License Would Eccentric Given Colorful Had Feel Supporting Like Make Greater Ultimately Quick Roles Interesting Really Choice Hard Choose Hard Thing Actually Thing Basis

I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics. Rachel Weisz

Think Sexy London Eccentric Because Full

My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland. Randy Newman

I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I've been playing for laughs for decades now! It's lovely to get a laugh; it's the best thing in the world! Richard Briers

You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study. Robert Gottlieb

Life Death You Woman Women Fate Psychic Mysteries Lesson Approach Nutshell Ways Photographic Eccentric Variety Unresolved Studies Study Combination Metaphor Forensics Unexplained Hobby Manifestation Series Peculiar

For me, the very last great strip is 'Peanuts.' After 'Peanuts,' there are a very few strips that I enjoyed for different reasons, but I don't think they were great. I don't think anything's come along since Charles Schulz - and I mean since 1950 - that I think rises above the professional or the eccentric into that realm of greatness. Seth

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My parents are a wonderful mixture of bohemian eccentric, but also incredibly practical and not airy-fairy. Sophie Kennedy Clark

Wonderful Parents Incredibly Eccentric Also Practical Mixture Bohemian

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. Steven Brust

Fashion Trust Fear Understanding Before Own Action Danger Out Seek Eccentric Eccentricity Never Taking Instincts Sake Conform Conformity Avoid

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