Quotes About Unconventional

Great men can't be ruled... The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional.

the other hand neither was he a man, nor any sapient proteinoid of the glutinous-albuminous variety. The head was round and plump, with red cheeks, but for eyes it had two penny whistles, and for ears it had thuribles, which gave off a thick cloud of incense. He was dressed

When everyone zigs, zag

But, yeah, it was a totally weird place, looking back. But the right kind of weird. Good weird. The nuns had a lot of freedom. We read Carl Sagan before the Old Testament.

Welcome to the island of misfit toys

Personally, I like to think my brother is having a college experience like they do in the movies. I don't mean the big fraternity party kind of movie. More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk about books and issues and kiss in the rain. I think something like that would be very good for him, especially if the girl were unconventionally beautiful. They are the best kind of girls, I think.

Oliver Cromwell can kiss my singing emerald scrotum!

It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was dangerously subversive.

countercantabrigianism.

There are people like me who just seem to be made of tweed.

There is no such thing as a standard, run-of-the-mill, human being.

the nonconformism of complete conformism:

Weird love's better than no love at all.

Love among the ruins... I'll tell you something, my friend: Weird love's better than no love at all.

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.

You must be human . . . how weirdly exotic and excitingly perverse.

I like to make blank pages darker. It's this thing I do.

Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.

You can tell if it's a good collection if people are afraid of it. In ten years, everyone will love it.

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

Reading kicks God's balls in the ass!

She is the only person I know who actually likes exams.

We had thought it a little odd, but what did we know? Lou has been peculiar since birth, after all. Mum