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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
George Santayana
Paradise
Design
Eccentricity
Individuality
Hobbies
Graphic
Graphic Design
Heresy
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
Time
Courage
Genius
Few
Society
Danger
Marks
Dare
Moral
Moral Courage
Eccentric
Eccentricity
Mental
Proportional
Generally
Contained
Been
Chief
Vigor
Now
Amount
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost
Society
Eccentricity
Civilized
Civilized Society
Point
Which
Doubtful
Sanity
Luxury means that you show the way you dress with eccentricity.
Alessandro Michele
You
Luxury
Way
Dress
Eccentricity
Means
Show
There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.
John Noble
Communicate
Eccentricity
Mere
Mortals
Geniuses
Exists
Graces
Lack
Inability
Pattern
Social
Really
Certain
I adore Britain! It's my favourite country; I love their eccentricity. I find Britain so inspiring.
Stefano Gabbana
Love
Country
Find
Favourite
Eccentricity
Adore
Inspiring
Britain
I am trying to cultivate the notion that constantly misplacing one's cell phone is a charming eccentricity... my children aren't buying it.
Alice McDermott
Cell Phone
Phone
Constantly
Eccentricity
Charming
Am
Cultivate
Trying
Cell
Children
Notion
Buying
The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
Edmund Morgan
Time
History
First
Interpretation
Difficult
Evidence
Sift
Detect
Eccentricity
Segment
Studies
Between
New
Makes
Encounter
Historical
Often
Difference
Radically
Large
Appearance
Originality
Needed
We design for a whole range of ages and body types, and we always have done. What's great about us is that the common thing that they all like is an accessible eccentricity of an accessible flamboyance, and I think the super thing about that, it isn't age-specific: you're not only dressing 25-year-olds; we're dressing women from 25 to 65+.
Giles Deacon
Great
You
Women
Design
Think
Types
Range
Super
Dressing
About
Eccentricity
Only
Like
Accessible
Always
Done
Common
Us
Ages
Body
Whole
Thing
I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity.
Holly Hunter
Life
God
Great
Me
Culture
World
My Life
Out
Carry
Eccentricity
Great Place
Had
Come
Also
Knows
South
Get
Cancel
Endless
Just
Want
Place
Much
Away
My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.
Jaron Lanier
Sometimes
Walls
Sense
Live
Other
Willing
Parallel
Eccentricity
Adult
House
Sort
Felt
Up
Lacking
Grew
Little
Each
Dad
Sufficient
Thing
I think because of the eccentricity of my work and how I dress, people expect me to be bouncing off the walls. But that's just not how I am.
Jeremy Scott
Work
Me
People
Walls
Think
Dress
Eccentricity
Bouncing
Because
How
Am
Off
Expect
Just
My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
Martin Short
Mother
Master
Symphony
Criticized
Eccentricity
Absurdity
Concert
Were
There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
Rachel Weisz
People
Sexy
Eccentricity
Room
Hollywood
Much
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
Music
People
Joke
Plead
Lyrics
Say
Guilty
High
Would
Tried
About
Eccentric
Eccentricity
Something
Bland
Factor
Always
Often
Irritation
Prefer
Grounds
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
When I look at my clothes, I think of them as an expression of the joy and fun of fashion - with a bit of English eccentricity thrown in.
Suzy Menkes
Fashion
Joy
Clothes
Think
Bit
Eccentricity
Thrown
Look
Them
English
Fun
Expression
We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or madness; we are no longer at all habituated to our own voices, except in conversation or from within the safety of a shouting crowd.
Teju Cole
Man
Conversation
Madness
Safety
Long
Own
Too
Our
Sight
Sign
Eccentricity
Crowd
Voices
Except
Longer
Himself
Within
Been
Taught
Shouting
Speaking
Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you're just mad.
Timothy Spall
You
Class
People
Mad
Eccentric
Eccentricity
Owned
Upper-Class
Just
Then
Working
Working-Class
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