{"quotes":[{"text":"My family has always believed that when we are faced with large and apparently impossible problems, the best solutions are found by the insane people, not the sensible ones.","author":"Lisa Kleypas","tags":["eccentric","eccentricity","family"],"id":15993,"author_id":"Lisa+Kleypas"},{"text":"I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.","author":"Edith Sitwell","tags":["catfish","eccentricity","eels","fish","individuality"],"id":17015,"author_id":"Edith+Sitwell"},{"text":"One error, in fact, of eccentricity in poetry is to seek for new human emotions to express; and in this search for novelty in the wrong place it discovers the perverse. The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.","author":"T.S. Eliot","tags":["eccentricity","emotions","poetry"],"id":41431,"author_id":"T.S.+Eliot"},{"text":"A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since he occurs only rarely, he must seem eccentric (in at least that respect) to the rest of us. A person eccentric in one respect is often eccentric in others.Consequently, the person who is most likely to get new ideas is a person of good background in the field of interest and one who is unconventional in his habits. (To be a crackpot is not, however, enough in itself.).","author":"Isaac Asimov","tags":["assurance","crackpots","creativity","eccentricity","eccentrics","new-ideas","unconventionality"],"id":79519,"author_id":"Isaac+Asimov"},{"text":"There was no Disney World then, just rows of orange trees. Millions of them. Stretching for miles And somewhere near the middle was the Citrus Tower, which the tourists climbed to see even more orange trees. Every month an eighty-year-old couple became lost in the groves, driving up and down identical rows for days until they were spotted by helicopter or another tourist on top of the Citrus Tower. They had lived on nothing but oranges and come out of the trees drilled on vitamin C and checked into the honeymoon suite at the nearest bed-and-breakfast.'The Miami Seaquarium put in a monorail and rockets started going off at Cape Canaveral, making us feel like we were on the frontier of the future. Disney bought up everything north of Lake Okeechobee, preparing to shove the future down our throats sideways.'Things evolved rapidly! Missile silos in Cuba. Bales on the beach. Alligators are almost extinct and then they aren't. Juntas hanging shingles in Boca Raton. Richard Nixon and Bebe Rebozo skinny-dipping off Key Biscayne. We atone for atrocities against the INdians by playing Bingo. Shark fetuses in formaldehyde jars, roadside gecko farms, tourists waddling around waffle houses like flocks of flightless birds. And before we know it, we have The New Florida, underplanned, overbuilt and ripe for a killer hurricane that'll knock that giant geodesic dome at Epcot down the trunpike like a golf ball, a solid one-wood by Buckminster Fuller.'I am the native and this is my home. Faded pastels, and Spanish tiles constantly slipping off roofs, shattering on the sidewalk. Dogs with mange and skateboard punks with mange roaming through yards, knocking over garbage cans. Lunatics wandering the streets at night, talking about spaceships. Bail bondsmen wake me up at three A.M. Looking for the last tenant. Next door, a mail-order bride is clubbed by a smelly ma in a mechanic's shirt. Cats violently mate under my windows and rats break-dance in the drop ceiling. And I'm lying in bed with a broken air conditioner, sweating and sipping lemonade through a straw. And I'm thinking, geez, this used to be a great state.'You wanna come to Florida? You get a discount on theme-park tickets and find out you just bough a time share. Or maybe you end up at Cape Canaveral, sitting in a field for a week as a space shuttle launch is canceled six times. And suddenly vacation is over, you have to catch a plane, and you see the shuttle take off on TV at the airport. But you keep coming back, year after year, and one day you find you're eighty years old driving through an orange grove.","author":"Tim Dorsey","tags":["disney-world","eccentricity","florida","history","humor","orange-groves","space-shuttle","speeches","tourism","tourist-brochures","vacation"],"id":103123,"author_id":"Tim+Dorsey"},{"text":"Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","bore","bored","boredom","boring","creative","creativity","different","eccentric","eccentricity","human","humans","innovation","innovative","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","life","motivation","motivational","motivational","philosophy","unique","uniqueness","unusual","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":110389,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"A person au fait with the millenarian edict of knowing oneself does not need a tattoo, pierced ear, or gaudy neck chains to declare who they are. Eccentricity for its own sake is simply a boring fashion statement and not a thoughtful statement of what comprises a wholesome self. A self-poised person does not need to own a luxury car to determine their degree of self-worth. Nor does a self-determined person need to idolize celebrities, hate other people whom they do not wish to exemplify, or live vicariously through other people’s admirable deeds. A person with unique and contented self-identify does not flip through fashion magazines or scan the headlines of gossip magazines when loitering in the supermarket checkout stand. A person who contemplates the meaningfulness of their existence is not fixated with posing in other people’s raiment or observing other people’s nakedness. A person who knows who they are and realizes how to accomplish all of their life goals does not dally by people watching or become distracted by envying other people.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["eccentricity","eccentricity","self-knowledge","self-knowledge","self-realization","self-realization","tattoo"],"id":117414,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"A person au fait with the millenarian edict of knowing oneself does not need a tattoo, pierced ear, or gaudy neck chains to declare who they are. Eccentricity for its own sake is simply a boring fashion statement and not a thoughtful statement of what comprises a wholesome self. A self-poised person does not need to own a luxury car to determine their degree of self-worth. Nor does a self-determined person need to idolize celebrities, hate other people whom they do not wish to exemplify, or live vicariously through other people’s admirable deeds. A person with unique and contented self-identify does not flip through fashion magazines or scan the headlines of gossip magazines when loitering in the supermarket checkout stand. A person who contemplates the meaningfulness of their existence is not fixated with posing in other people’s raiment or observing other people’s nakedness. A person who knows who they are and realizes how to accomplish all of their life goals does not dally by people watching or become distracted by envying other people.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["eccentricity","eccentricity","self-knowledge","self-knowledge","self-realization","self-realization","tattoo"],"id":117414,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"...Accustomed like the white blackbird to the loneliness of eccentricity yet never quite reconciled to it, they found in each other's oddness a most comforting compatibility.","author":"Elizabeth Goudge","tags":["compatibility","eccentricity","loneliness"],"id":136788,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Goudge"},{"text":"Clancy comments that the subtleties of national character can impact the world stage by making espionage more difficult. Americans were quirky by nature, making the sorts of eccentric moves that had to be followed up on as potential espionage cues. Russians, on the other hand, were too orderly by nature to make such distractions appear natural.","author":"Tom Clancy","tags":["eccentricity","identity","individuality"],"id":136842,"author_id":"Tom+Clancy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":35,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}