Quotes About Unconventional

The underground is not a place but a way of life. You can be underground most anywhere, from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Hermosa Beach, California.

There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.

I'm not sure there's such thing a thing as a normal life.

They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea: In spite of all their friends could say, On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, In a Sieve they went to sea!

Some people call this being a nonconformist, but that term misses the point. We don't choose not to conform. We don't even notice what the standard we're not conforming to is!

In the end nothing could be said of his work except that it was preposterous and true and totally unacceptable.

beaver testicles, rubbed on the forehead or dried and dissolved in water, made an effective antidote to drowsiness and idiocy.

A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.

Physicians recommended those suffering from hemorrhoids to stroke them with the amputated hand of a dead man—a strangely unpalatable image to ponder.

I get that you despise convention, but you shouldn't let it get to the point that you're incapable of saying, 'Fine, thanks,' just because it isn't an original, brilliant utterance. You can't be unconventional in every aspect of life. People will get the wrong idea.

To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful" ~ Carl Gustav Jung (1987-1961) as cited in Anthony Stevens

She was a rule follower but not a crowd follower.

Better to look a bit weird than to have own beard.

In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones was path-breaking in many ways.

The proverbial 'mad mathematician' was more fact than fancy.

My vision of where I wanted to go in life was not normal. The whole idea of a conventional existence was like Kryptonite to me.

Ingen är normal.

The only way not to be controversial is to be average and ordinary. They just call me anything but average and ordinary.

My life would be very puzzling to most people if they had to follow me around for a day or two.

When everyone was listening to pop music I was listening to Monty Python records.

My favorite thing about the Ultimate Queen Celebration is that we're not afraid to explore a non-traditional Queen set list.

Christine and the Queens

I blindly loved music and never once questioned if I was weird or not. I didn't care. Still don't!

My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world.