Quotes About Unconventional

Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks.

What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.

I think everyone thinks their family is insane, and every family is insane. There is no real normal.

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

There is only one thing left for you to do," John Sloan advised one artist. "Pull off your socks and try with your feet.

Like all true eccentrics, he thought other people very odd.

New points of view are not, as a rule, discovered in territory that is already known, but in out-of-the way places that may even be avoided because of their bad name. Carl Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausual Connecting Principle

The greatest managers in the world do not have much in common. But despite their differences, these great managers do share one thing: Before they do anything else, they first break all the rules of conventional wisdom.

A bathrobe answered the door.

I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.

Why was she doing that?" I asked cautiously. "Collecting penises?" "Some people collect stamps, she collected penises. Many of us did in those days. Anyway, he consulted me—through a clairvoyant, of course, as I was no longer in that earthly incarnation. I told him to complain to the authorities, so he did, and she was forced to give the penis back.

She was keeping it in a cedar box with some other penises she'd stolen; she was feeding them on grains of wheat. That's the usual method of tending penises.

She lived with several men, but in each of the apartments there were always cardboard boxes, belonging to her, that she never got around to unpacking; just as well, because it was that much easier to move out. When she got past thirty she decided it might be nice to have a child, some time, later. She tried to figure out a way of doing this without becoming a mother.

Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.

He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

I didn't want to be a loser, but I didn't want to fit in at the same time because I don't like just being ordinary. So it's one of those situations where I always kept my head up.

Im so ahead of my time my parents havent met yet

No one had ever called me unnatural before, except for the time I put ketchup on a taco. But seriously, we'd been out of salsa, so what else was I supposed to do?

Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.

I quit shoelaces a long time ago.

One time I tried to marry a chicken.