Quotes About Unconventionality

Well, I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them.

When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

They thought out of the box, like traders, except much better and without fear of introspection.

The world's law was no law for her mind

lei ti sorride. un sorriso che dice: so che sei pazzo ma per me va bene lo stesso.

there is a point at which eccentricity begins to impact operational effectiveness.

I would love to just continue playing characters that break the mold. I like making interesting decisions when playing characters, so, taking something that would seem one way and then playing it a different way.

Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else. It is hard in this day and age.

Your mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But to tell you a secret. All the best people are.

we do know that she's compassionate and eccentric—an excellent combination in a human being;

The only normal people are the ones you don't know well yet.

there are NO rules, merely suggestions

It took determination to be really strange. That, or absinthe before breakfast every day.

You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

only crazy people capitalize every word.

Do I look like someone who would be wandering around with a bunch of cologne names rattling around in my head? Well, tragically, I did. I did have quite a few ideas for cologne names and so I told them to Bob.

Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?

This is the age of oddities let loose.

Frieda was very special," O'Keeffe recalls. "I can remember very clearly the first time I ever saw her, standing in a doorway, with her hair all frizzed out, wearing a cheap red calico dress that looked as though she'd just wiped out the frying pan with it. She was not thin, and not young, but there was something radiant and wonderful about her.

Why keep in touch with them? That's what I want to know,' asked Larry despairingly. 'What satisfaction does it give you? They're all either fossilized or mental.' 'Indeed, they're not mental,' said Mother indignantly. 'Nonsense, Mother... Look at Aunt Bertha, keeping flocks of imaginary cats... and there's Great-Uncle Patrick, who wanders about nude and tells complete strangers how he killed whales with a penknife...They're all bats.

You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter.

A finished person is a boring person.

A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since he occurs only rarely, he must seem eccentric (in at least that respect) to the rest of us. A person eccentric in one respect is often eccentric in others.