Quotes About Unconventional

I've never been to a race car race before.

when they hear hooves they look for zebras instead of horses

it ranked alongside having Vaseline smeared liberally around your ring by a guy with a sack full of ferrets.

He did all the right things: flew aeroplanes, shot, fished for salmon, hunted; and even better, all the wrong things: kept grass snakes in his room, rode his horse up the school steps on match days, and best of all, published racy novels under the pseudonym James Aston.

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

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Feet in the Gravy

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution — such call I good books.

After all, there was something rather pleasant in knowing that you were misunderstood. It made you feel different from everyone else.

This cartoon scientist wants to look, act, and think like Einstein: casually and comfortably dressed, if not somewhat unkempt and disheveled; unconventional, but in a curiously impish and self-conscious way; irreverent and individualistic, except when it comes to dressing in a nonuniform uniform and championing his specialty.

Así como un ave en su jaula. Así como un bebedor entre el bullicio de la medianoche, así he intentado ser libre, a mi manera.

And some women, Breavman thought, women like Shell, create [beauty] as they go along, changing not so much their faces as the air around them. They break down old rules of light and cannot be interpreted nor compared. They make every room original.

I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

How can anybody be a person of quality if they wash away their ghosts with common sense?

An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.

Be different differently.

You know your family's got problems when the hippies with the stoned dog are worried about you.

Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one.

Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, [Trout Mask Replica] was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one.

In one huge leather-gloved fist Jollyby held up a large, madly kicking hare by its ears. 'Son of a bitch,' Dauntless said. 'He caught it.' Dauntless was a talking horse. She just didn't talk much.

The bear, it emerged, drank only peach schnapps, which it sipped from delicate thimble-size glasses.

It was unconventional, but conventions were there to make it easy on the fakers and cheats.

They gave it me—for an unbirthday present.

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.