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Quotes About Unconventional

Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny
~ Dashiell Hammett
In some other state, a person might say to himself, I believe I shall pose as Superman by the side of the road! But in Florida, that person is also going to say, But first, I shall remove my pants!
~ Dave Barry
If the groom-to-be's views were actually considered, the wedding would be a far more relaxed affair, possibly involving go-carts.
~ Dave Barry
Indeed, growing up he'd always been considered a freak because of the way his mind worked.
~ David Baldacci
Americans do not inderstand that artists are different from ordinary people. This does not make them insane it makes them artists
~ Unknown
most people need to believe in something. There are a few who don't, but they're a bit unusual.
~ David Eddings
Investment success requires the conviction that comes from a fundamental understanding of the rationale for building the portfolio to certain specifications. Unless investors truly believe in the efficacy and validity of an unconventional approach to asset management, the end result almost certainly fails to withstand the wear and tear of market forces. Thoughtless
~ David F. Swensen
Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy.
~ David Foster Wallace
No, thanks. I already own a penguin.
~ Woody Allen
Strange in a familiar way, familiar in a strange way.
~ Yann Martel
We must have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living
~ Christopher McCandless
Yah, right. Crazy people. Mas Locos. But one thing about crazy people--they see things other people don't.
~ Christopher McDougall
Even Cliff Young, the sixty-three-year-old farmer who stunned Australia in 1983 by beating the best ultrarunners in the country in a 507-mile race from Sydney to Melbourne, did it all on beans, beer, and oatmeal ("I used to feed the calves by hand and they thought I was their mother," Young said. "I couldn't sleep too good those nights when I knew they would get slaughtered." He switched to grains and potatoes, and slept a whole lot better. Ran pretty good, too).
~ Christopher McDougall
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.
~ Chuck Jones
I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Han was thinking he was just as likely to shoot flames from his rear end.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Love rules without rules.
~ Claire Cook
E quero aceitar minha liberdade sem pensar o que muito acham: que existir é coisa de doido, caso de loucura. Porque parece. Existir não é lógico.
~ Clarice Lispector
I tried being reasonable, but I didn't like it.
~ Clint Eastwood
In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.
~ Coco Chanel
Therapies we can purchase and caregivers we can consult, whether available through conventional or unconventional medicine, are still far more impressive to us than our own hearts and minds, lungs and hopes, muscles and beliefs, even though they sustain us day in and day out.
~ Herbert Benson
It's not normal, like chasing a little white ball and whacking it into eighteen different holes.
~ Unknown
He follows his own way these days, even more than most of us. 'Twas as goof a description of madness as any I've heard.
~ Hilari Bell
By the hairy balls of Jesus
~ Hilary Mantel