#eccentric

At the time, it seemed to me that Jeremy was spending a lot of time with a piece of plastic pressed against his ear, talking to himself. Which was fine by me. We all have our eccentricities. Jeremy liked talking to plastic; I liked hunting and eating the rats that ventured into the motel room. Or, at least I did like hunting and eating the rats, until Jeremy caught me and promptly kiboshed that hobby. Some of us are less tolerant of eccentricities than others. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#werewolf #men

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric. ↗

— Bobby Heenan

#nuts #poor #rich #something #stupid

I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric. ↗

— Dorothy Kilgallen

#eccentric #i #i am #maybe #style

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artist #artistic #artists #artsy #creative-people

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories. ↗

— Saki

#eccentric #golden-afternoon #humor #saki #twentieth-century

Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#eccentric #happiness #hard-times #inspirational #ridiculous

Stubborness and staunch, they are both same things from different point of view, such crazy and eccentric. ↗

— Toba Beta

#damant #different #eccentric #life #perception

If Miss Malin had now been given the choice of returning to her former reasonable state, and had been capable of realizing the meaning of the offer, she might have declined it on the ground that you have in reality more fun out of life when a little off your head. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#fun #life #life

Sci-fi fans are eccentric. ↗

— Traci Bingham

#fans #sci-fi

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#because #carrying #competent #conviction #eccentric