“ Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds. ”
- President Bill Clinton- Copy
- 142
“ I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. ”
- J. Carter Brown- Copy
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“ If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever. ”
- George Berkeley- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case. ”
- Helen Clark- Copy
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“ The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad. ”
- Salvador Dali- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Wen you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say "hullo." Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do," "How's the world a-usin' you? ”
- Sam Walter Foss- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart. ”
- Karl Barth- Copy
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“ Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy. ”
- John Bunyan- Copy
- 494
“ Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But, Angelinos are different! ”
- Paul Hogan- Copy
- 413
“ The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other. ”
- Johnny Carson- Copy
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“ The British are really good at that. They are so incestuous,... They pass around partners as if it was popcorn at a movie. 'Do you want some?' It's just bizarre. ”
- Cameron Diaz- Copy
- 410
“ Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 3.6K
“ One must never be eccentric. If one's lot is cast among fools, it is necessary to study folly. ”
- Count of Monte Cristo- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Imagination took the reins, and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion. ”
- Fanny Burney- Copy
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“ That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
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“ The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door. ”
- Julian Clary- Copy
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“ When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile. ”
- George Burns- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Stephen Toulmin- Copy
- 2.6K
“ 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. ”
- Robert Downey Jr.- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room. ”
- Heywood Broun- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. ”
- Jim Murray- Copy
- 784
“ If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor. ”
- Henry Kissinger- Copy
- 3.6K
“ It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. ”
- Jack Kerouac- Copy
- 980
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