Quotes About Unconventional

Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.

I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

I like Colin Wilson, mainly because he never went to school. When you don't go to school you can say anything you want like that and not have to worry.

I don't really know anything about fashion, I just kind of wing it and do what I want at the time.

Success is about making your life a special version of unique that fits who you are - not what other people want you to be.

Anytime you do something out of the ordinary, there will be skeptics. Everyone wants a reason why. That's fine. What's happened with me is just an accumulation of a lot of things.

Who listens to golfers? They're boring. If I want to wear camouflage on the golf course during a tournament, I will. And I have.

Hopefully people are upset for the reason I want them to be upset. Even when I was doing open mics, I've always had people upset. I've never been the consummate crowd-pleaser.

You can find truly original pieces of writing, but they're original because you go, "Who would have even have thought of that?," or, "Why would anyone ever want to go see that?"

Children do not see themselves as shocking or surprising and do not want other people to do so.

People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.

Opposite the Half-Axe was the narrow-fronted entrance to a shop devoted to short lengths of rope and wooden poles a man and a half high. Tehol had no idea how such a specialized enterprise could survive, especially in this unravelled, truncated market, yet its door had remained open for almost six centuries, locked up each night by a short length of rope and a wooden pole.

Mlawhlaoblossblayowblagmilebbingoblaiblblafblablallblayarblablabnablahblallblah!' 'What?' 'Bla?' 'Bla?' 'Yarb?' 'Bah! You're stupid and useless and ugly!' 'Blabluablablablahllalalabala, too!' Iskaral Pust scowled at it. The bhokaral scowled back. 'Rat poison!' Pust hissed. And then smiled. The bhokaral offered him a dung sausage. And then smiled.

I was born by Cesarean section, but you can't really tell. Except that when I leave my house, I always go out the window.

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

I'm a peripheral visionary.

I am intrigued by unusual people. I'm quite unusual myself. Like calls to like, as they say.

There was something to suit every taste, even the most outlandish and grotesque.

Without meaning to, I've become the neighborhood weirdo.

A few years ago in Fushun, China, two dolphins ate strips of their tank's vinyl lining and were saved by Bao Xishun, a 7?9? Mongolian herdsman who appears in the Guinness Book of World Records as "The World's Tallest Man." When surgical tools failed, Xishun reached down the dolphins' throats with his forty-two-inch arms and extracted the plastic.)

I have found that every family has a strange remedy for any situation - from 'Use Fantastic to get the scuff off your patent leather shoes!' to 'Soak an aspirin in a glass of water to get rid of a migraine.'

I didn't want really to be involved in a normal soccer club.

As I've had occasion to say before, I'm a pretty anti-sociable Socialist.