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“I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.”

People World Stories Interesting Outsiders Eccentric

“Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby, enchanted world of traveling carnivals, roadside attractions, and a beloved, eccentric father’s descent into Alzheimers. Just as her dad animated the handcarved, miniature western world of Tinkertown from coat hangers, inner tubes and old sewing machine motors, Tanya Ward Goodman has fashioned her complex and often hilarious memories into a beguiling, wry, and moving work of art.”

“The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.”

Thinking World Crazy Genius Great Things Small Things Eccentric Eccentricity

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.”

Thinking Want Children Desire Liberty Theory Ought Pure Elements Vote Live By Nuts Spinning Jam Eccentric Children Love Eccentricity Crank

Book:A Casual Commentary

Source: A Casual Commentary

“In training, don't be afraid to be an oddball, eccentric, or extremist. Only by daring to go against tradition can new ways of training be learned. The trick is recognizing quickly when a new approach is counterproductive.”

Way Approach Training Tradition Tricks Daring New Ways Recognizing Eccentric Extremist Counterproductive New Approach Oddballs

Author:Benji Durden

“A dash of eccentric glamour gives you the power to keep the wrong kind of men away.”

Men Giving Kind Glamour Eccentric

Author:Isabel Toledo

“I do some eccentric dancing.”

Dancing Eccentric

Author:Roy Blount, Jr.

“Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.”

Men Mind Courses Greatness Great Men Vulgar Eccentric Comets

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.”

Source: The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

“Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.”

Men Failing Mankind Poet Sanity Eccentric Grotesque Great Poet

Book:Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass

Source: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass

“I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives.”

Guy Social Silly Eccentric

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.”

Stills Wife Former Eccentric

Author:Jay McInerney

“Composition is a side issue. Its role in my selection of photographs is a negative one at best. By which I mean that the fascination of a photograph is not in its eccentric composition but in what it has to say: its information content. And, on the other hand, composition always also has its own fortuitous rightness.”

Mean Art Hands Sides Roles Issues Information Negative Photograph Technique Composition Selection Fascination Eccentric Fortuitous

Book:Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“No doubt, a scientist isn't necessarily penalized for being a complex, versatile, eccentric individual with lots of extra-scientific interests. But it certainly doesn't help him a bit.”

Helping Science Individual Bits Interest Doubt Scientist Complexes Extras No Doubt Eccentric Versatile

Author:Stephen Toulmin

“Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know that they are eccentric.”

People Knows Self Levels Liberty Please Conscious London Self Conscious Eccentric Suburbs

Author:Stevie Smith

“I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.”

Design Personality Terrific Eccentric Belgians

Author:Miranda Richardson

“The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.”

Next Doors Eccentric Eccentricity

Author:Julian Clary

“A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay.”

Thinking May Body Opinion Groups Okay Filled Peers Eccentric Bisexual Tentacles Peer Group

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.”

Style Eccentric

Author:Dorothy Kilgallen

“Sci-fi fans are eccentric.”

Fans Sci Fi Eccentric

Author:Traci Bingham

“The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.”

People Play Shows Fun Deals Records Degrees Expecting Eccentric Lawns Midwest Mustard Gravy Mowing Mowing The Lawn

Author:Patrick Carney

“As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way.”

Ifs Way Shows Actors Late Acceptable Eccentric

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.”

Persons Stills Facts Roles Audience Reputation Eccentric

Author:Crispin Glover

“You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.”

World Fit Eccentric

Author:Rupert Everett

“But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.”

Believe Character Shows Enjoy Eccentric Quirky

Author:David E. Kelley

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