idiosyncrasy Quotes

When you feel that the way you interpret the world is fairly idiosyncratic, you can feel somewhat ostracized and lonely.

Taste is idiosyncratic, so I don't love everything people recommend me, and I don't love everything my friends love.

Oh, I'm kooky.

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.

When I woke up I was naked. I have this one oddball idiosyncrasy: Sometimes in my sleep I take off all my clothes.

The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.

I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.

Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.

I’m going to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender.

The songs of mine that don't work, the ones that I wouldn't consider playing live for instance, fail to integrate their idiosyncracies. It's not that they fail because they're boring, but because they overreach.

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to do - if there's enough of it - is uncover, in the mess and the noise of the world, some lines of music that actually have harmony. It's there, somewhere.

I was always on my oddy knocky.

Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.

That is the manner in which I roll.

When I'm tired, I see industrial pictures. But I'll see one every two months. If I see one every day, I'll become an idiot.

Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.

I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious.

It is a very wise rule … to acquire early a correct notion of your own peculiar constitution of mind, and to become well acquainted with … your idiosyncrasy

Eccentricity is developed monomania.

Films should involve a director's idiosyncrasies as much as possible I think.