Quotes About Unconventionality

My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.

I'm all about zagging when everyone else is zigging.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.

There are some loony people in this world!

Being mainstream is fun.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

She is a famous artists' model who claims to have been christened Topaz - even if this is true there is no law to make a woman stick to a name like that.

yet isn't it always the inappropriate thing, the thing that doesn't quite work, that's oddly the dearest?

These folks zigged when the rest of the world zagged. And once you cross the line, there's no coming back. Mark my words.

A raving loony. She must be," Billy

I'm a nut, I know I'm a nut, I enjoy being a nut so I'll stay a nut.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

You're making me nervous by being so weird. But your weirdness is what I like about you.

Organic grow-your-own-granola food is not my style. When a style or a trend wants to impose a way of behaving on me, I do the exact opposite; I might even develop a particular fondness for potassium sorbate and sodium erythorbate.

With her make-up-free complexion and nondescript brown hair gathered in a scrappy up-do, she looks like someone for whom there are more important things than being thought pretty. She might be an academic, or an assistant in the better sort of a bookshop. But there's something about her—a stillness, a fixity of gaze—that tells another story.

Always games, baby. But the rules are ours to break.' Julian Harte

I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Life is like mathematics, to work out your life, you need formulas that suit your uniqueness.

He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

She can't have understood you: you are so utterly different from ordinary men. That's what I liked about you when I first saw you; I felt at once that you weren't like everybody else.

overthinking things is a hobby of mine. I'm the first to admit I'm weird

For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.

I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.