“ Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad. Jenny Offill
“ A person au fait with the millenarian edict of knowing oneself does not need a tattoo, pierced ear, or gaudy neck chains to declare who they are. Eccentricity for its own sake is simply a boring fashi… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ One error, in fact, of eccentricity in poetry is to seek for new human emotions to express; and in this search for novelty in the wrong place it discovers the perverse. The business of the poet is not… T.S. Eliot
“ Clancy comments that the subtleties of national character can impact the world stage by making espionage more difficult. Americans were quirky by nature, making the sorts of eccentric moves that had t… Tom Clancy
“ Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress. Amit Kalantri
“ ...accustomed like the white blackbird to the loneliness of eccentricity yet never quite reconciled to it, they found in each other's oddness a most comforting compatibility. Elizabeth Goudge
“ My family has always believed that when we are faced with large and apparently impossible problems, the best solutions are found by the insane people, not the sensible ones. Lisa Kleypas
“ In Science don't confound Normal static electricity To ecstatic eccentricity. Here is what I found: Electric charges As they rise up your hair In contrast with a discharge, Rarity leaves you up in the… Ana Claudia Antunes
“ In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach,… John Stuart Mill