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Quotes About Unconventional

Once you went outlaw, then you were there, and that's where you stayed.
~ Alexandra Fuller
When our small research group moved from MIT to Dartmouth College years ago, one of the Dartmouth engineering professors watched us in seminars for a while, and then dropped by our offices. "You people are different," he said. "You ask different kinds of questions. You see things I don't see. Somehow you come at the world in a different way. How? Why?
~ Donella H. Meadows
In short, our Marianne is just not in the common style. We shall simply have to present her as an original." She sobered abruptly. "How very stupid Perry was, to be sure. This girl might have changed his life." To this uncharacteristically severe judgment on the part of his normally charitable parent, the marquess returned no answer.
~ Dorothy Mack
If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
~ Dorothy Parker
If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
~ Dorothy Parker
Life is like animal porn, it's not for everyone.
~ Doug Stanhope
She'd taken the time and care to have her tape recorder ready so that any time she had to fart, she could just pick it up and rip one. When she had a full cassette tape, she drew up a cover and mailed it to the office. I'd play it for people and they'd say, "That's from your Mother???" She
~ Doug Stanhope
Grace is wild. Grace unsettles everything. Grace overflows the banks. Grace messes up your hair. Grace is not tame.
~ Doug Wilson
Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be coming from there.
~ Douglas Adams
Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.
~ Douglas Noel Adams
It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all.
~ Dr. Seuss
You have to be odd to be number one
~ Dr. Seuss
You have to be odd to be #1.
~ Dr. Seuss
If you can't make a smart play, you make a bat-shit crazy one.
~ Drew Hayes
Anyone who was a rebel at one time in life cannot return to being conventional.
~ Elsa Peretti
The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's always been eclectic; you never know what you're going to get.
~ Andre Agassi
Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
~ Johnny Depp
I just try to live my life and do my thing.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.
~ Muriel Spark
Everything in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it.
~ L. Frank Baum
The pitching coach was bugged by the author's technique because he had never seen anyone do it before, and besides, it wasn't the coach's idea.
~ Jim Bouton
Of course, once you had yanked Conan the Barbarian's sword out of a book to fight off a rabid weresquirrel, "impossible" lost a lot of its punch.
~ Jim C. Hines
Back to you...........f*ckers!" Said while speaking on live television from Niagra Falls.
~ Jim Carrey