Quotes About Unconventionality

Hrabia de G., typowy bohater Dalego, zwyk? mawia?:bale organizuje si? dla tych, których si? nie zaprasza. (...) Jajko na talerzu bez talerza na balu bez Dalego - to Dali.

Dare to do something different. Don't go with the status quo. Just bring passion and obsession together to build a masterpiece

Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.

I did nothing to attract attention. My somewhat fantastic tastes, my paleness and thinness, my peculiar way of dressing, my scorn of fashion, my general freedom in all respects, made me a being quite apart from all others. I did not recognise the fact. I did not read, I never read, the newspapers. So I did not know what was said about me, either favourable or unfavourable. Surrounded by a court of adorers of both sexes, I lived in a sunny dream.

standardized

Any time, any place, any where. He's not called Doctor Martini, is he?

For example, they recently had a piece on a character--I think his name was Ambrosio D'Urbervilles--whose design statement was to stuff an entire apartment from floor to ceiling with dark purple cottonballs. He called it Portrait of a Dead Camel Dancing on the Roof of a Steambath.

My last semester at Vassar, I'd taken to wearing nunchakus in a strap-on holster and carrying around a samurai sword — that should tell you all you need to know.

It's no more normal to be a bank-manager or a bus-conductor, than to be Baudelaire or Genghis Khan,' Moreland had once remarked. 'It just happens there are more of the former types.

It's no more normal to be a bank-manager or a bus-conductor, than to be Baudelaire or Genghis Khan,' Moreland had once remarked. 'It just happens there are more of the former types.

She had always enjoyed the carte blanche accorded to mobsters, aristocrats, circus clowns, and lunatics

I ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way.

if you don't have any weird moments, you're weird

She still had all of her marbles, though every one of them was a bit odd and rolled asymmetrically.

I found myself buying a cuckoo clock that, instead of a cuckoo, had a large wooden penis that popped in and out of it every hour. I gave it to John Lennon when I went to visit him.

I like people who are always doing things that would never have occurred to me at that moment.

To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let us be glad, therefore, that we differ from one another in form and in disposition. Variety is the spice of life, and we are various enough to enjoy one another's society.

We've always been hardcore rebels.

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.

I definitely like the oddballs. There's a song called 'Little Thing,' which is the only song that I have recorded that has no words. And it's the one that I get past my critic inside me.

To begin with, I always want to go for scripts that do not have a reference in Hindi cinema. If it is novel and unique, it definitely has a better shelf value.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

When I was growing up in California, being vegetarians differentiated my mother and me from normal, held us away from the masses.

It's helpful to have a handbag that's a bit crazy, or shoes that have kiwis on them or something, because it distracts.