Quotes About Unconventionality

Er trat ruhig und gelassen auf den Tisch zu. Ohne sich vorzustellen - >Ihr wißt, wer ich bin, und wer ihr seid, interessiert mich nicht<, schien diese Unhöflichkeit zu besagen -, begann er mit fachmännischer Trockenheit die sachlichen Anordnungen.

Reach for something out of the ordinary. You must dare to even come close.

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

There was nothing a man couldn't do with three thousand dollars and a suitcase full of canned tuna fish and pregnancy brassieres. The car was called an El Camino for a reason. (Telegraph Avenue, p399)

The way I solve a hard problem is not to start with the conventional wisdom, but to start over.

Not to be rude to my sisters, but I don't listen to drag music. I listen to everything from punk to Italo disco to Appalachian country music, but I don't know what their records sound like. I hardly listen to my own records. I'm like Cher!

There is nothing the pop world loves more than a way-out freak.

Everyone's crazy except you and me.

I love it when you're demented like this.

Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things

I want to be important, by being different. & these girls are all the same

I'm not built the way most people are and require more in this life to be laid plain before me than is common.

Bridegroom: I'm built differently.

It was true what Michael said about him: his blindness wasn't something missing; it was simply something different.

Luckily, however, life doesn't always follow tradition, but craves out a path of its own.

Mad things could be quite normal, so long as you were doing them yourself. Watching someone else doing them, you wrinkled your nose, turned around quickly, and walked away.

So you're saying that, not only am I some kind of freak, I'm one of the biggest freaks you've spotted?". Celestra Caine, FADE by Kailin Gow

It doesn't matter how badly you paint as long as you don't paint badly like other people

Smash the table, why don't you? Kick things about. It's ever so nice to see you embrace the true spirit of the Fraternitus.

I never wish to be easily defined. I'd rather float over other people's minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

The way you would draw a tree is different from the way anyone else would draw a tree—and that's the way it's supposed to be!

Oh, I'm not objecting, I'd let a confused dishwasher marry us.