Quotes About Unconventional

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

Why darling, I'm your Auntie Mame!

Of course, the best topics are always somewhat inappropriate. Very few topics are truly inappropriate—you just have to speak about those topics in an appropriate manner.)

The World needs people like you. . . . You get things done. Not always the best way, or the most sensible way, but it gets done nonetheless. You're a rare creature. . . . Something bothers you, . . . and suddenly you're off. 'I'm not always so terribly sure of myself,' I admitted. Simmon smiled. 'I find that strangely reassuring.

But instead, she simply walked through the walls. She didn't know any better. Nobody had ever told her she couldn't. Because of this, she moved through the city like some faerie creature. She walked roads no one else could see, and it made her music wild and strange and free.

She didn't know any better. Nobody had ever told her that she couldn't. Because of this, she moved through the city like some faerie creature. She walked roads no one else could see, and it made her music wild and strange and free.

It's as if Tempi brought home a dog that can whistle. The fact that you are out of tune stands quite beside the point." Vashet

You get things done. Not always the best way, or the most sensible way, but it gets done nonetheless. You're a rare creature.

We also usually got the best results, probably because not only do we think outside the box, we trample it, change its shape, hide it from all its loved ones, and then hold it for ransom.

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).

People say beware, but I don't care. Their words are just rules and regulations to me.

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies.

Coloring excited him, not the act of filling in space, but choosing colors that no one else would select. In the green of the hills he saw red. Purple snow, green skin, silver sun. He liked the effect it had on others, that it disturbed his siblings.

whatever you think, think the opposite

To be original, seek your inspiration from unexpected sources.

I don't get why people are so intrigued with being normal.

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

The most influential of all early modern pantheists was the philosopher Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677). Born into a family of Jewish refugees from Portugal, Spinoza was trained in Talmudic scholarship but soon developed an unconventional theology of his own. When this became known, he was summoned before a rabbinical court and even offered money to recant. When he refused, he was excommunicated. He earned a humble living as a lens-grinder, and died of consumption in 1677.

Irreverence is our only sacred cow.

I don't work at being ordinary.

I don't work at being ordinary.

I love the way Miriam looks, because it's not based on anything human; she's going for German Expressionism or Kabuki sheet cake.

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

Some people feel out of place when they're young, not because anything's wrong with them, but because there's something special that sets them apart. Something they haven't figured out yet.