Quotes About Unconventional

When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.

I look like a biker slut from hell meets soldier of fortune pinup.

I'm a special little snowflake," I said.

Have you ever tried nodding good morning to people while naked and holding a small arsenal of weapons?

There are only two things you can do when you're dressed like Barbie does Bondage. You can be embarrassed or you can be aggressive. Guess what my choice was?

Don't worry," said Lizzy brightly, dancing into the chamber in a peculiar costume that was part Robin Hood and part Paris frock. "I have my crossbow." Nicolas regarded the costume appreciatively. "That is a most unusual ensemble, mademoiselle. But becoming." "I know," said Lizzy. "And I still have my crossbow." Nicolas bowed his head in acknowledgment.

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them what they eat when they are alone. A salad, they tell you. But when you persist, they confess to peanut butter and bacon sandwiches deep fried and eaten with hot sauce, or spaghetti with butter and grape jam.

I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.

Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring." I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.

Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.

Society, you're a crazy breed.

I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

My partner and I are going to be run over by a rabbit driving a Citroën" just isn't the sort of thing that occurs to most people, no matter what kind of life they've led.

I am going to host Thanksgiving myself and instead of a turkey I'm serving a big human butt.

part of trying to attract those poet-men was to look a little like I had wandered onto campus by accident after having spent ten years with the wolves behind some farmhouse, living off scraps and reveling in the pure air like a half–girl Mowgli, half–woman Thoreau.

Outrageous ideas often prove themselves to be the most practical.

On the other hand, Andrea had decided last month, on the occasion of her twelfth birthday and for no discernible reason (at least, none that an adult could discern), that from then on her given name would be Fitzwinkle. And then

A small number of residents in each city have stopped caring whether they age a few seconds faster than their neighbors. These adventuresome souls come down to the lower world for days at a time, lounge under the trees that grow in the valleys, swim leisurely in the lakes that lie at warmer altitudes, roll on level ground. They hardly look at their watches and cannot tell you if it is Monday or Thursday. When the others rush by them and scoff, they just smile.

I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.

We aren't contractually tied down to rationality! There is no sanity clause!

An intractable problem can only be resolved by stepping beyond conventional solutions