
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.
– Edith Sitwell
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- I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. – Edith Sitwell
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- I mean, electric shock? Isn’t that a bit… electric shock-y? – Emmett Spain
- Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat. – Arthur Golden
- No magnetic wombats, no flying hyenas, no catfish masquerading as samurai, and, MOST CERTAINLY, no Duku jam! – Gina MarinelloSweeney
- To lose what we never owned might seem an eccentric Bereavement but Presumption has its Affliction as actually as Claim — – Emily inson
- People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out. – Fennel Hudson
- To be unpopular, you must look the part. Remember four words: plastic flowered swim cap. – Jennifer Ziegler
- My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. – Adlai E Stevenson II
- Courage is making an unpopular decision and suffering through temporary discomfort because you know it will have the best long-term results. – Andrena Sawyer
- Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable. – Stevie Smith
- I figured it is always better to be unpopular by your own choice. – Tom Upton
- A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- Because truth is unpopular does not mean that it should not be proclaimed. – Billy Graham
- The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. – Margaret Chase
- Defending unpopular positions is what lawyers do – Paul Clement
- The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future. – Edith Wharton
- I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
- I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha! – Brandon Sanderson
- I’m a classic eccentric, living at the extremes of high mania and low mood. There’s no middle ground, only madness and sadness. – Fennel Hudson
- My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration. – HG Wells
- I’m not crazy or dangerous,just a bit eccentric and lonely. – Emma Forrest
- You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren’t easy to find. – Dean Koontz
- Inspiration for my short stories grows from a psychic kernel, a vision of some sort or an eccentric, colorful dream. – Lawren Leo
- Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane. – Bruce Robinson
- Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you’ve heard is true. – Sara Sheridan
- Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric. – Sara Sheridan
- They tell me to be quietWhen I’d rather cause a riotAnd have everyone screamingOut their eccentric meaning. – Initially NO
- Stubborness and staunch, they are both same thingsfrom different point of view, such crazy and eccentric. – Toba Beta
- Her name is Emmilina. She is quite eccentric and was Thomas’s best friend. – Jessica Fortunato
- Just because it’s something original, eccentric or you’re not used to it; doesn’t mean it’s wrong. – Sandra Chami Kassis
- Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad. – Jenny Offill
- Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond. – Margaret Atwood
- Who have not led the holy lifenor riches won while young,they linger on as aged cranesaround a fished-out pond. – Gautama Buddha
- What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more. – Henry David Thoreau
- You might be a big fish in a little pond,Doesn’t mean you’ve won’Coz along may come a bigger one. – Coldplay
- It’s been much harder to forgive myself. My mistake was like a pebble dropped in a pond. The ripple effect has impacted everyone I love. – Heather Blanton
- Cowards drown in a pond. The extraordinary flourish in the middle of the ocean. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Great robber though he was, Kandata could only trash about like a dying frog as he choked on the blood of the pond. – Rynosuke Akutagawa