Quotes About Unconventional

I hate ordinary people!

He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.

Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by the unconscious hints it gave of power, pride and passion. So entirely natural and unconventional was she that he soon found himself on a familiar footing, asking all manner of unusual questions, and receiving rather piquant replies.

You have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead and ordinary life?

I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she's never been told about.

a condição de aluno especial, que tinha sessões particulares com os professores e assistia a aulas, mas que não pertencia, pelo menos a princípio, a nenhuma turma específica.

Los movimientos socialmente anómalos dejan fisuras en el entramado convencional por donde se escapan los espíritus más libres

We cannot shape the world according to the delights society decrees appropriate for us; we must be unconventional in our joys and find them wherever we can.

Leave him alone, he's as mad as a hatter!

Life again refused to remain lifesized

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

Donald Trump does not stick to Republican orthodoxy, which, you know, and this is always supposed to have been his downfall. Maybe it's his strength.

It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.

I was a little different. I still say Im a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house.

Overturn the world, change its character, yield to mad ideas, be even criminal—but live.

Life is a freak. That's its hope and glory.

Owens women ignored convention; they were headstrong and willful, and meant to be that way.

The aunts are so old it's impossible to tell their age. Their hair is white and their spines are crooked. They wear long black skirts and laced leather boots. Though they haven't left Massachusetts in more than forty years, they're certainly not intimidated by travel. Or anything else, for that matter. They know what they want and they're not afraid to be outspoken.

Lived in curious but not unhappy isolation…subscribing to magazines nobody around them read, listening to programs on the national radio network which nobody around them listened to…

I think it's kinda nice.' And I did. my mom isn't famous for her pies. No, she's famous for defusing a nuclear device in Brussels with only a pair of cuticle scissors and a ponytail holder. Somehow, at the moment, pies seemed cooler.

MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that themselves are sane.