Eccentric Quotes - Page 11

• In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still lifes and portraits and landscapes in watercolor and acrylics, took private lessons, won some blue ribbons for my earnest renderings. My lack of talent did little to dampen my enthusiasm. In college I thought I'd continue, but, like Salieri, I quickly realized that while I had the ability to appreciate art, I wasn't actually very good.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Teacher, Art, School

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Evil, Mind, Trying

  Vincent van Gogh (1976). “My life & love are one: quotations from the letters of Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo”, Blue Mountain Press

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• I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme style. It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay.

  John Waters

  Moving, Cities, Style

  "Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste". Book by John Waters, 1981.

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• She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.

  Michael Cunningham

  Gifted

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.4, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Are you really going to work in that?" Maura asked. Blue looked at her clothing. It involved a few thin layering shirts, including one she had altered using a method called shredding. "What's wrong with it?" Maura shrugged. "Nothing. I always wanted an eccentric daughter. I just never realised how well my evil plans were working.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Daughter, Blue, Evil

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, Book 1)”, p.34, Scholastic Inc.

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• I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Independent, Thinking, Film

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• Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.

  Noel Gallagher

  Artist, Mad, Insane

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

  A.C. Grayling

  Littles, Way, Rooms

  "The Heart of Things".

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

  Lady Gaga

  Crazy, Stuff, Versace

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• 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

  Kids, Littles, Way

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• It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

  Paloma Faith

  Culture, British Culture, British

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• He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and prfound thatn you suspect yourself to be--capable of doing more good and more harm in the world than you've ever imagined--it is all but impossible not to believe, at least in his presence and a while after you've left him, that he alone sees through your essence, weighs your true qualities . . . and appreciates you more fully than anyone else ever has.

  Michael Cunningham

  Believe, Essence, Appreciate

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• Jedi Masters do not crack up- they just get eccentric.- Luke Skywalker

  Troy Denning

  Cracks, Masters, Luke

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• When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

  Brian Eno

  Uncles, Lying, Done

  "Lessons in how to lie about Iraq" by Brian Eno, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2003.

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• I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up.

  Mark Haddon

  Car, Mind, Abnormal

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• You're not an idiot. You're just eccentric. (Selena) That's what they said about Mary Todd Lincoln. Until they locked her up. (Grace)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Grace, Idiot, Said

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• Look, I promise I’m not psychotic. Eccentric and idiosyncratic, but not psychotic. (Sebastian) I’ll bet the prisons are full of men who have told women that. (Channon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Promise, Looks

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “In Other Worlds”, p.132, Penguin

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• It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.

  Tobsha Learner

  Women, Responsibility, Widows

  Tobsha Learner (2008). “Soul”, p.213, Macmillan

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• It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion

  John Maynard Keynes

  Eye, Average, Essence

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• 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

  Fate, Murder Mysteries, Psychics

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• An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured the Ashes for England [on Pietersen's Ashes winning innings, 2005

  Simon Barnes

  Winning, Ashes, Violence

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• Whatever you believe to be true and false, that proclaim to be true and false; whatever you think admirable and beautiful, that should be your model, even if all your friends and all the critics storm at you as a crotchet-monger and an eccentric.

  George Henry Lewes

  Beautiful, Believe, Thinking

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions of the Dionysian festival kept him within certain bounds. But within the imposed limits Euripides was as profane as he dared to be, making melodrama of the divine realities which his predecessors accepted religiously, using the stage merely as a convenience for popularizing his own eccentric values.

  Laura Riding

  Religious, Reality, Perfection

  "Poetic Drama". "The Common Asphodel". Book by Robert Graves, 1949.

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• The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.

  Eric Maisel

  Wise, Successful, Artist

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.

  Zaha Hadid

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