Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property.
Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have.
I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.
We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age. . . although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.
I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
Eccentricity is developed monomania.
Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.
[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect.
Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy's misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: "When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.
Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to glamour and transcendency of the star image no to the heroic no to the anti-heroic no to trash imagery no to involvement of performer or spectator no to style no to camp no to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer no to eccentricity no to moving or being moved.
When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.
Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life
The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.
I felt it would to add a great deal to my legend for eccentricity.
Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.
