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Quotes About Unconventionality

Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
~ Captain Beefheart
Predictability is the cousin of death: I don't necessarily want people to see me coming. You know?
~ CeeLo Green
I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.
~ Martha Plimpton
I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.
~ Iris Apfel
If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.
~ Russell Smith
I want to do different kind of roles that people don't want to do.
~ Saqib Saleem
Bob Barr is not crazy enough for my taste.
~ Penn Jillette
it seemed to him that he felt one pair of eyes in particular, someone staring not at Moiraine and Loial, but at him. He picked her out immediately. For one thing, she stood apart from the others, and for another she was the only woman in the room not wearing at least a little lace. Her dark gray, almost black, dress was as plain as the ship captains' clothes, with wide sleeves and narrow skirts, and never a frill or stitch of fancy-work.
~ Robert Jordan
His academic failure forced him to develop unconventionally, free of the social straightjacket that might have constrained his progress to well-worn paths.
~ Robert Kanigel
there are no cookie cutters in heaven.
~ Robert Morgan
I don't want her to be like other people. There are too many other people around as it is.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Mr. Harrison was certainly different from other people…and that is the essential characteristic of a crank, as everybody knows.
~ L.M. Montgomery
DiÄŸer insanlardan farkl? olan kiÅŸiler hep tuhaf olarak görülür.
~ L.M. Montgomery
They be crazier than we are.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
If I ever form a clan, we'll be the anti-cheerleaders and walk under the bleacher forming mild acts of mayhem.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Oddly enough, the very considerations that had made marriage impossible for him were mirrored in my own being: a rabidly independent nature, an impatience with lesser minds, total unconventionality, and the horror of being saddled with someone who would need cosseting and protection—the
~ Laurie R. King
There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
~ Alain de Botton
An architect intent on being different may in the end prove as troubling as an over-imaginative pilot or doctor.
~ Alain de Botton
Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.
~ Diane Keaton
Everyone else can go ahead and live in their beige movie. I prefer mine in Technicolor. They might all look at me and they might talk about me and they might think I'm weird. And you know what? I couldn't possibly disappoint them. So let's not. Instead, let's show them how it's done.
~ Dita Von Teese
Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another.
~ Doctor Who
I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.
~ Dolly Parton
Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13
~ L. Frank Baum
When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you become uncomfortable. So deal with it. They don't know what you are going to do.
~ Larry Ellison