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Quotes About Unconventionality

I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up.
~ Mark Haddon
Don't try to impose any pattern or symmetry on this guy. Stay open and let him show you.
~ Thomas Harris
People who dress up in bizarre costumes have a savoir-vivre - not to mention the sort of personality disorder - that he admires.
~ Thomas Pynchon
I'm not at all the sort of woman who kisses strange dragons when she comes across them.
~ Katie MacAlister
De perto, ninguém é normal.
~ Caetano Veloso
Zawsze wydawaÅ'o mi siÄ™, ?e istniejÄ… dwa typy ludzi: ci, którzy podniecajÄ… siÄ™ wszystkim, co wi??? siÄ™ z - jak by to uj?? - dziwakami, i ci, których to nie rusza.
~ Caleb Carr
Zawsze wydawaÅ'o mi siÄ™, ?e istniejÄ… dwa typy ludzi: ci, którzy podniecajÄ… siÄ™ wszystkim, co wi??? siÄ™ - jak by to uj?? - dziwakami, i ci, których to nie rusza.
~ Caleb Carr
I put the fun in funeral.
~ Gena Showalter
I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for everyday.
~ George Bernard Shaw
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
~ Yiddish Proverb
If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions.
~ Maude Adams
There's a pinch of the madman in every great man.
~ French proverb
I have this natural want to... when things sound very easy and straightforward, something inside me always makes me want to take a left turn. If it comes to me and it's too simple, there has to be a more complicated route. I will complicate things like that at times.
~ Chino Moreno
I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
~ J. August Richards
That has always been my initiative, to do my own thing and take things that don't really go together and put them together. Wear a tuxedo jacket with some track pants, whatever I feel like, whatever I think is dope.
~ P. J. Tucker
It's not really important to make skillful movies. I think expressing yourself really well, skill-wise, is not as important. I want it to be sort of raw and rough but new and fun to watch.
~ Takashi Miike
I probably am. I think Paul Giamatti also said in an interview that I was "f--king crazy." I'm flattered by that. I want to be that guy who's nuts who makes people think.
~ Thomas Haden Church
I have to be very original and have a strong musical voice. I don't want to be a copycat of anybody.
~ Hiromi
Facebook is that successful guy you're supposed to want to date, but you can't keep your mind off the beautiful freak in the corner. Twitter is my freak.
~ Jennifer Harrison
I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.
~ Lynn Shelton
Do you wake up one day and say "hey honey, let's have a baby goat and guava jam business"?
~ Susan Orlean
Has a sense of humor. (Preferably warped.) We know who we are
~ Susan Scott
How can you sit here and know that day... three I'm not going to be driving you crazy because I laugh like a horse or...or... dress up your penis in Barbie clothes?
~ Suzanne Brockmann
she had said it approvingly, as a compliment. Or, was she mocking him? He remembered she carried snakes in her pocket and the usual rules didn't apply to her.
~ Suzanne Collins