Quotes About Nonconformity

I'm not the sort of person who if everyone thinks you're fabulous you thrive on it.

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.

I don't push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap.

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

If you do something that's not pigeonholed, it gets thrown into the 'We don't know what this is' bin, and so let's not talk about it so much.

I was thrown out of every school I ever went to.

The NWO, yeah, we're a bunch of outlaws, thugs, whatever you want to call us, but... we do what we want, when we want. And we're having fun doing it.

I've always been proud to be different, I've always stood out like a sore thumb and I always have not given a damn.

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.

I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies.

I'm not a yes person, whether it's about a tie choice or a joke.

I can still crack a safe with one hand tied behind my back. I'm not proud of it. But I was always against society.

I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.

Conformity spawns conformity.

If everyone approved, there'd be no point to it.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Hrabia de G., typowy bohater Dalego, zwyk? mawia?:bale organizuje si? dla tych, których si? nie zaprasza. (...) Jajko na talerzu bez talerza na balu bez Dalego - to Dali.

Oslové by cht?li, abych dodržoval rady, které vyhlašuji pro ostatní. To je nemožné, já jsem totiž zcela odlišný.

In a depressed era when most young adults grasped for any foothold they could find, the nineteen-year-old Smith had already given up a major university scholarship and challenged a prominent magazine's editorial boundaries until he was fired. He wouldn't follow his father's burdened, suit-and-tie path to an early death; he might kill himself, but in a different way.

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.

I don't care," he answered, "whether I make the most of my strength or not; I don't know whether I have any strength, but if I have I dare say it will find some way of exerting itself. I will live as I like living, not as other people would like me to live; thanks to my aunt and you I can afford the luxury of a quiet unobtrusive life of self-indulgence," said