Quotes About Unconventional

I'm not a Twitterer, I'm not a twerker, I'm not a Facebooker, I'm not nothing. I'm old school.

My guitarist husband, Mike, and writer me are the old-fashioned kind of bohemians. Not 'fro-haired hipsters gyrating in iPod ads, but the sort who, starting January 1 of every year, literally don't know where their next dime is coming from.

At one time, I had it notarised that I was from another planet. By a lawyer.

I've always tried to do things a little bit before they were being done by the mainstream. I challenge myself to do that in stand-up also, to talk about things that I'm not hearing anybody talk about onstage and in the media.

A lot of people call me a 'machine,' and I don't think a lot of men or women operate the way I do.

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood

15 For fifty fillérs my father would eat a fly, for one florint you could take a picture of the cadaver in his tongue, for five florints and an apple (Starking), he'd bite a mouse in two. He never worked with outsourced mice, he liked to catch his own.

that's as nutty as squirrel turds

She pulled a half pint of Jack Daniel's out of her purse and poured me a shot in a small paper cup she took from the water cooler. "Dr. Jack always makes house calls and the boy cures what ails you.

What a strange girl you are." "Why?" "Flung out of space

It was like an apple running for Congress, a bike rack wearing a bathing suit.

Exceptional refers to both ends of the spectrum, so all my life I've been exceptional.

man walking on stilts among giants

Lalla, exuberant, convinced her guru, the Siddha Shrikantha, to give her the teachings by defecating on an image of Shiva that was in the guru's house. When Shrikantha asked her the reason for this act, Lalla replied: "If Shiva is everywhere, he is also in the dirt of the dumping grounds where I usually go. If every place is sacred, why bother choosing?

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

The 'Friday sessions' refer to something that you're not paid for and not supposed to do during your professional life. Curiosity-driven research. Something random, simple, maybe a bit weird – even ridiculous. Without it, there are no discoveries.

Crazy is a relative term in my family!

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.

I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!

Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.

It was like seeing Bill Gates at age thirteen, times two. And half of him was wearing a cheerleader uniform. Yes, I know that's a weird image.

I've never acted my age and I never will. It's just the way I've always been.

I was neurotic and weird from an early age.