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A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the occasions on which, he changes those ideas, procedures, and concepts.
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.
The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.
I have a family full of quirky people. Someone has to be sensible so all of you can enjoy being reckless weirdos.
One is expected to show a bit of eccentricity to be interesting. Otherwise one is simply a sad old crone, and no one wants that, you know.
Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos they're rebellious.
Eccentricities of genius.
sometimes decided to be truculent and unyielding, like a grouchy toddler -
Mannerism, especially when it takes the form of recurrent word or phrase, is by no means easy to represent; there is but a hair's breadth between the point at which the reader delightfully recognizes is as a revealing habit of speech, and the point at which its iteration begin to weary him.
I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.
Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
A certain cynicism, born of the life she has led; a streak of strange wisdom; the wistfulness behind the gaiety; sometimes fear; and nearly always the memory of loneliness that hurts the soul.
Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art
And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things. He
Most people are resistant to ideas, especially new ones. But they are
fascinated by character. Extravagance of personality is one way in which
the pill can be sugared and the public induced to look at works dealing
with ideas.
I'm a little goofy sometimes; I can get a little wacky.
The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills.
frugivorous also.
There must be room in our world for eccentricity, even if it offends the prudes, and room for the vague other-worldliness that often goes with genius.
It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.
People have all day to talk about what makes them ordinary. It turns out that they want to share what makes them weird.
Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have.
Better to be quirky alone than unhappy together.
a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm
Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling
Extremity out of act.
Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express.
That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity - that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are an essential part and characteristic of beauty.
I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share ...
Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.
Tricking is a evolution of innovative movement & self Expression.
A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.
Apparently when it's two people, it's quirky and funny, but when it's a person doing the same stuff on her own, it's rebellious and antisocial.
I've always had a quirky way of looking at things. It's my coping mechanism.
I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
Unconventional," said Jenkins. "What is conventional?" asked Andrew. "Living in a dream? Living for a memory? you must be weary of it." "Not
Strangeness is the form taken by beauty when beauty has no hope.
Stubborness we deprecate,
Firmness we condone,
The former is our neighbors trait,
The latter is our own.
There are famous examples of people who just had really strange ways - [Jimi] Hendrix being the biggest example of that. Or someone like Keith Richards, he just has a really idiosyncratic style.
Spontaneity is the fragrance of no-mind.
Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.
Fabulosity. It's a state of being.
I just have a quadraphonic personality
There are little elements in a person's life, minor fibers that become unintentionally tangled with our personality. Sometimes it's a patent phrase, sometimes it's a perfume, sometimes it's a wristwatch.
There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely like other people.
What part of life isn't peculiar? Seriously? At what point, really, do you stop and say, well, THIS is really strange? THIS part. Not THAT part. But THIS part.
I am more spontaneous than my character.
Charientism (n.) A rhetorical term to describe saying a disagreeable thing in an agreeable way.
If I knew how to say disagreeable things in an agreeable fashion I most likely would not be spending most of my time siting alone in a room, reading the dictionary.
If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.
... quite naturally, I am curious about behaviour which does not fit the natural patterns, which floats suspended at some unexplored level of the sentient sea and defies the tides and waves of society.
Cynicism is reality with an alternate spelling.
Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.
caughtoutedness.
Everybody in life is a chameleon.
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
Curious by nature and reckless by choice
Being eccentric is having a great desire to experiment without always being willing to spend much precious time thinking things through.
The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.
Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric.
Something which, for want of a more definite term at present, I must be permitted to be called queer; but which Mr. Coleridge would have called mystical, Mr. Kant pantheistical, Mr. Carlyle twistical, and Mr. Emerson hyperquizzitistical.
When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.
I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer.
The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.
Everything has style, everything's a little bit larger than life and done with mischief
Long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT,
I'm eccentric, what else? I don't know, I've got two people telling me what to say.
Creatively Outspoken and Dramatically Quiet
Fickle is the heart of woman Treacherous and full of vice;
Where's your will to be weird?
Love stories are built around people's idiosyncrasies.
That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.
Everybody's got something weird about them, I said.
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 gives misfits a way of fitting in.
Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right.
Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.
In loquaciousness lay insanity.
Why are you so weird?" "Because my weird has to be able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-stitch." "At least what I do is considered an art form," Chubs said. "Yes, in ye olde medieval Europe you would've been quite the catch -
Eccentricity is the universal trait of humanity.
Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.
Maybe lots of people go through life never knowing they're peculiar.
Playfulness: that infantile quality we sneer at whilst busying ourselves with intellect and seriousness. And misery.
ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
Well, I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them.
I hate being predictable." "I believe they call that classy.
Silliness is the perfect spice on any personality.
The conceptions of idle talk, of superfluities, and of vain ostentation, all designations of an irrational attitude without objective purpose, thus
egocentric melodrama.
There's emptiness in him that can never be filled, emptiness that dresses up well at prep school, where a lack of willpower is called creativity.
willingness to try a lot of things and make many mistakes.
The need to complicate something whose very beauty lay in simplicity and passion.
Irregularity is inherent in our very nature; expecting people to be perfectly wise is as crazy as putting wings on dogs or horns on eagles
True to the GAME (Giving, Affirming, Manifesting, Evolving).
I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.
Being spontaneous at times is a must. Being spontaneous all the time is a crazy person.
To ask if I am mischievous is the understatement of all time.
The gap between intentions and actions is character.
Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition.
People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.