Idiosyncrasies Quotes

• The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.

  Brittany Murphy

  Embrace, My Own, Brittany

  "Happy Feet - Brittany Murphy interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Creativity, Men, Gambling

  Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.128, Routledge

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• The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Jobs, Accomplishment, Perfection

  "The Tweaker" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. November 14, 2011.

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• In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Community, Culture

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• The little idiosyncrasies that only I know about: that's what made her my wife. Oh she had the goods on me too, she knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections, but they're not. Ah, that's the good stuff!

  Robin Williams

  People, Wife, Imperfection

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• People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

  Andy Warhol

  People, Interesting, Together

  Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett (2015). “POPism: The Warhol Sixties”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Successful, Desire

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.93, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.

  Harvey Cox

  Thinking, Intellectual, Essentials

  Harvey Cox (2013). “The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective”, p.270, Princeton University Press

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• One suggestion is to regard your personality as a pet. It follows you around anyway, so give it a name and make friends with it. Keep it on a leash when you need to, and let it run free when you feel that is appropriate. Train it as well as you can, and then accept its idiosyncrasies, but always remember that your pet is not you. Your pet has its own life, and just happens to be in an intimate relationship with you, whoever you may be, hiding there behind your personality.

  Wes Nisker

  Running, Intimate Relationships, Names

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• The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.

  Karl Pearson

  Independent, Science, Men

  Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

  Caroline Knapp

  Solitude, Way, Breeding

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• Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

  Quincy Jones

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• Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Character, Names, Common Sense

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• A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Crash, Program, Competitors

  Guy Kawasaki (1990). “The Macintosh Way”, HarperCollins

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• When we fail to live up to our ideals, for instance, we might begin to wonder who we are - most people are aware of a discrepancy, I think. There are idiosyncrasies and foibles, but we're not sure if these are essential. Some people think they are the most essential things of all.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Thinking, People, Essentials

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports are really the norm. I was always off to the theater at night, from 7 years old on. Friends there in the Midwest who could talk to you about the idiosyncrasies of 'Pippin' were few and far between.

  Johnny Galecki

  Sports, Growing Up, Night

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• It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.

  Radha Mitchell

  Character, Scary, Mind

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• Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

  D. L. Hughley

  Groups, Certain, Humans

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• It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.

  George W. S. Trow

  Class, Choices, Coherence

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• Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Marriage, Self, Woven

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• When I woke up I was naked. I have this one oddball idiosyncrasy: Sometimes in my sleep I take off all my clothes.

  Ethan Hawke

  Sleep, Clothes, Naked

  Ethan Hawke (2002). “Ash Wednesday: A Novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.

  Sigmund Freud

  Deceit, Culture, Conflict

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• This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Errors, Quality, Bishops

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Queen Victoria, November 4, 1868.

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• His wry sense of humour and his stalwart courage were an inspiring example to so many. His ability to laugh at Life's idiosyncrasies and himself in a self deprecating way taught that most valuable of lessons: 'to be of good cheer, no matter what Life threw at you, and ever to find the hope that dwells in every human heart'.

  John McLeod

  Cheer, Heart, Humor

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• I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in examining all the nuances and idiosyncrasies of particular stories of everyday people. And if that doesn't happen, then I usually transplant myself and my own stories to a particular historical event. Which is why you'll see me, the first person pronoun, interacting in a song about Carl Sandburg, or you'll find my [sic] interacting with Saul Bellow. It's sort of a re-rendering of history and making it my own.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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