#eccentric

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#eccentric #father #lecturer

I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side. ↗

— Demi Moore

#i #know #side

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown. ↗

— Vaslav Nijinsky

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Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#behavior #eccentric #movie #movie set #noticed

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. ↗

— George Santayana

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

— Martin Short

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My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want. ↗

— Julie Walters

#child #eccentric #grandmother #i #lived

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant. ↗

— John Phillips Marquand

#dealing #double #eccentric #i #in the past

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