Quotes About Unconventional

To a business, ordinary is poison, extraordinary the antidote.

I could eat bloody Elvis - if you put enough vinegar on him.

Whatever had the most shock value became my meal of choice.

Suddenly and without warning, one of the men stepped around and, with the beast's nether regions regrettably all too apparent, plunged his bare hand up to the elbow in the pig's rectum, then removed it, holding a fistful of steaming pig shit - which he flung, unceremoniously, to the ground with a loud splat before repeating the process.

Quanto mais exótico é o manjar, mais aventuroso é o verdadeiro gourmet e maior a probabilidade de algum incómodo posterior. Não me vou negar aos prazeres de uma morcela, ou de um sashimi, ou mesmo de uma ropa vieja na tasca cubana, só porque às vezes não me sinto muito bem algumas horas depois.

A vida de cozinheiro era uma vida de aventura, saque, pilhagem e rock'n'roll sem parar, com um desprezo displicente por toda a moral convencional. A vida do outro lado do muro parecia-me muito boa.

brace yourself for feline taxidermy, disco balls, crystal chandeliers, and other oddities of decor.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch." ? Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

In one room the carpet had been rolled back, and a hunchback wearing a velvet smoking-jacket was playing an accordion, writhing backwards and forwards as he attacked his instrument with demiurgic frenzy.

She could easily make matters more bizarre than embarrassing.

When I talked with David Swensen, Yale's chief investment officer, he told me that "unconventional wisdom is the only way you can succeed." Follow the herd, and you don't have a chance.

He is bound by none of the ordinary rules of mankind.

What a card! He's a rare 'un, no mistake.

I am the biggest anachronism on Planet Earth.

He was a picturesque survivor, one of those who had no use for an ordered way of life. When his type vanished, if it ever did, the world would be a safer but less interesting place.

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

I must apologize for calling so late, said he, and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.

I am a kind of stray cat, aren't I?

Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?