Quotes About Unconventionality

I found him very sexy because I love difference. An unbearably handsome face bores me unless something beneath it surface is crooked or askew: even a broken nose or one eye slightly higher than the other, or something psychological, something unfamiliar and maybe even suspect.

I think every writer has a little freak in 'em.

Dare to learn. Dare to think. Dare to be irrational.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Hello, luv, " he says through a thick curtain of blue hair. "Hope I'm...interrupting.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

I know the feelings of my heart, and I know men. I am not made like any of those I have seen; I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different. Whether Nature has acted rightly or wrongly in destroying the mould in which she cast me, can only be decided after I have been read.

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.

A chic type, a rough type, an odd type - but never a stereotype

She is her odd self. The kiln has been fired. She is a person persnickity about keeping her house clean, but not above spitting on her desk to rub out a coffee stain. She will never be an athlete, or a mathematician, or a skinny person, or someone whose heart isn't snagged by the sight of fireflies on a summer night and the lilting cadence of a few good lines of poetry.

Era este hombre muy estirado y relamido, y la gente estirada y relamida suele vivir habitualmente en un mundo tan reducido que cualquier cosa violenta e inusitada les puede sacar brusca y completamente de él; por ello, esta clase de gente suele desconfiar instintivamente de todo lo que represente una cierta originalidad.

I don't want to be pinned down to any position. My position is the lack of a position, but of course you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk you spoil the whole game-Marcel Duchamp

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

When I'm at an event, I like to be an eccentric dresser. I will just keep wearing what I like.

Rick Rubin is interesting. He doesn't wear shoes, I think? No wait, he wears shoes.

I've figured out how to turn what's different about me and limitations - I'm new to this world, I'm a woman, I don't have a math background - and how I use that to my advantage. They're what make me unique. In poker you learn very quickly, if you play like everyone else, you'll be fine, but you'll never be great.

It's not normal to go into a house and see a pond in the middle of the living room full of baby sharks. It's not normal to go to someone's garage and see a private plane.

You don't always have to be popular and do things everyone else is doing.

I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

I like contradictions, and I like exceptions. I don't like rules and dogma.

I've had the basic courage and confidence to never follow convention.