#eccentricity

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

— E.A. Bucchianeri

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

Longevity-and sanity. Eccentric old ladies on Harleys I can deal with. ↗

— Alison Larkin

#genetics #harleys #life #longevity #old-ladies

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, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#opinion #philosophy #society #age

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#hollywood #much #people #room #sexy

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

#dad #each #eccentricity #felt #grew

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

#been #chief #chief danger #contained #courage

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#does #eccentricity #original #profoundly #who

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. ↗

— Martin Short

#concert #criticized #eccentricity #master #mother