Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zaha Hadid

I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.

Ross Perot

In this country, if you're eccentric and a billionaire you either kill a wrestler or run for president.

Peter Kent

Even when she was at her wackiest, most eccentric and, I think fair to say, offensive, the entire party didn't wear her as the Conservative party sometimes wears the fellows at the fringes of the party,

Chris Noth

New York used to be so much more than just a place to shop. It was life on the street for the eccentrics; it was an eccentric city. It had many different tastes. Now it's just one - a really rich one - with big tall glass buildings.

Eva Green

When I'm at an event, I like to be an eccentric dresser. I will just keep wearing what I like.

Jules Verne

Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

Mark Twain

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Paloma Faith

It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

Bayard Taylor

Eccentricity is developed monomania.

Lennart Johansson

I think it's a good idea. They have the same culture, understand each other and travelling is easy between countries. So why not?

Rob Stutzman

has been linked to the gym culture for much of his life.

Stephen Rodrick

In college football, fans wallow in a culture of failure. Unless you root for Miami, you sadly wait for disaster to strike your team in a manner not seen outside of Fenway Park.

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Maria Gilsenan

Here in Shanghai, it is such a drinking culture that people need to do something else.

Chris Byrne

Historically, toys have always reflected our culture at any particular point in time, ... Today we live in a high-tech world, where technology is being used by kids even at a very young age. Toymakers are responding to that trend.

Al Horford

I think the culture is always going to be a football culture, as we well know. But I think this definitely impacts the way people are going to start looking at us.

Bruce Hyde

Lake Champlain is the most under-marketed gem of a resource. First and foremost I want to use this as an opportunity to promote the history, culture and recreation of Lake Champlain.

Bill Daly

We take this seriously. The pro gambling culture is something we educate our players about extensively.

Kate Bush

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

Katharine Whitehorn

Hats divide into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.

Sean Connery

His name is John Mason, a British national incarcerated in The Rock in 1962.

Stewart Gary

It hurts me not to have them. We can't pretend it doesn't matter. It's like a British Invasion set without the Beatles.

Jeremy Bulloch

I think The Empire Strikes Back had everything.

Rhianna Pratchett

I think the Dutch certainly get British comedy. And let's face it; a lot of it is pretty low-hanging fruit for the whole world now. There are probably tribes in the heart of the Papua New Guinean rainforest that know all the words to the Dead Parrot sketch.

T. S. Eliot

What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

John Thaw

When he's solved that particular clue, then he's back to reality and he doesn't like it. I think that's why he drinks more than most.

Ian Gow

I think we have made a British degree affordable.