Quotes About Nonconformity

As I walk down the halls of Oakridge High, dressed in a black lacy Lolita dress, fishnets, and platform boots, swinging my Beetlejuice lunchbox, I wonder if this really was such a good idea.

Sunny's mother had written that spatchcocking can't be done in less than 2 incisions. Sunny had taught herself how to do in it just one. She made a single one-inch clean incision through the neck bone just above the broken spine. Then with one swift move she deboned it through its anus, using just her thumb and middle finger. ---------------------- So imagine what will happen to the man who falls in love with her.

Deep down, most adults hate people who go against the grain.

If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere.

Bueno, en el fondo yo sabía que ella no sería nunca una mujer normal. Y tampoco quería que lo fuese, porque lo que yo amaba en ella era también lo indómito e imprevisible de su personalidad.

En verdad, fue un individualista recalcitrante, constitutivamente alérgico a ceder un ápice de su independencia y a disolverla en lo gregario, lo que, de hecho, lo convertía en un enemigo declarado de toda doctrina y formación política colectivista, como el fascismo, el nazismo o el comunismo, de los que fue adversario sistemático y pugnaz toda su vida.

Yes, it was late, and, yes, I was being very dented-in-the-head-mutant-hillbilly, But you... you just sat there like some shitty poem.

disregard other

My last semester at Vassar, I'd taken to wearing nunchakus in a strap-on holster and carrying around a samurai sword — that should tell you all you need to know.

Fine-looking women, smoking and drinking and gambling and doing whatever they like? Sounds good!

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.

I'm an asshole. You should probably be an asshole too.

It's no more normal to be a bank-manager or a bus-conductor, than to be Baudelaire or Genghis Khan,' Moreland had once remarked. 'It just happens there are more of the former types.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. —JACK KEROUAC

Wait! Wait! Listen to me!… we don't have to be just sheep!

We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.

Instead of trying to reform other people's - or her own - perception of feminist, the FCP likes to position herself as something outside the normal bounds of womanhood.

I have always preferred an occasional orgy to a nightly routine. What? Aunt Augusta said that. In Travels with My Aunt.

What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?

I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial.

Her manner of dress, of speech, of doing her hair, of spending her time, had not changed since it first became apparent to a far younger Morgen that in all her life to come no one was, in all probability, going to care in the slightest how she looked, or what she did, and the minor wrench of leaving humanity behind was more than compensated for by her complacent freedom from a thousand small irritations.

Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again;

insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it;

insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again