Quotes About Unconventional

If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.

For a while I didn't have a car . . . I had a helicopter . . . no place to park it, so I just tied it to a lamp post and left it running. [slow glance upward]

I'm not good at normal things. I can't drive a car. I couldn't read till I was 10.

Por qué cree que abrir una librería es inverosímil?-le gritó al viento-. ¿La gente de Hadborough no quiere comprar libros? -Han perdido el deseo por las cosas raras -dijo (...)-. (...) Y no me diga usted que los libros no constituyen una rareza en sí mismos. (La librería)

The cure for tonsillitis was inspired. 'Take a fat cat, skin it, draw out the guts and take the grease of a hedgehog and the fat of a bear … All this crumble small and stuff the cat, roast it whole and gather the grease and anoint the patient therewith.

That, child, is one of the glorious advantages to being a madman. I don't have to make sense. It's very liberating. You should try it sometime.

She's not royalty for Christ's sake. She's a Grape.

Bay Area bric-a-brac sensibility.

Something piqued his curiosity and he wanted to know more. There was no order to it, neither in his mind nor in his filing system. He would plunge into a subject with cavalier disregard for its chronological development. And

a noncol. A useless misfit, an outsider. A loner lacking college degrees.

Alexei didn't bustle; he wore his madness like a badge.

They hacked all day. They even hacked naked; at the Taylor University computer lab, gamers stripped down for regular "skinny-hacking" parties.

If you're strange enough, people won't notice you're kind and will leave you alone.

The whole point of love isn't to have fun times without hard times, to have someone who is fine with who you are and doesn't challenge you to be even better than that. The whole point of love isn't to be the other person's solution or answer or cure. The whole point of love is to help them find what they need, in any way you can. What we have - it's definitely not normal. But the whole point of love is to write your own version of normal, and that is exactly what we're going to do. -Rhiannon

Most babies come into the world crying or gasping or snotting. Not Tiny Cooper. He comes into the world singing.

Eraserhead is my most spiritual movie. No one understands when I say that, but it is.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

And there are plays – and books and songs and poems and dances – that are perhaps upsetting or intricate or unusual, that leave you unsure, but which you think about perhaps the next day, and perhaps for a week, and perhaps for the rest of your life. Because they aren't clean, they aren't neat, but there's something in them that comes from the heart, and, so, goes to the heart.

Harry S Truman despised settled conventions.

He's as nutty as a vegan T-bone.

In trying to be memorable, you wind up sounding unspeakably queer

My mother was, for the most part, delighted with my brother and regarded him with the bemused curiosity of a brood hen discovering she has hatched a completely different species. 'I think it was very nice of Paul to give me this vase,' she once said, arranging a bouquet of wildflowers into the skull-shaped bong my brother had left on the kitchen table. 'It's nontraditional, but that's the Rooster's way. He's a free spirit, and we're lucky to have him.

Leeches are singing in my asshole.

To be exotic, on the other hand, one had to think not just outside the box but outside the world of boxes.