Quotes About Nonconformity

Love is the ultimate outlaw.

I love playing outsiders, I always do.

As a kid, I would look at my dad and ask him why he was wearing jeans with his tux. Today I love to do it. It's just fun to be a little more unique.

I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causeth his down-going.

Who saidI can't wear my ConverseWith my dress, well babyThat's just me!

Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?

Misfits need misfits to worship. It was white kids trying to avoid being white adults; all of them going through the detour of punk culture to expend and waste their youth, because they all knew they were gonna die someday, bald, fat and stupid.

The greatest crime being perpetrated in this new world is that of stamping out passion and silencing the individual.

As Jesus continued, it became clear he was proposing a third way that neither the compliant nor the noncompliant had ever considered before. Aliveness won't come through unthinking conformity to tradition, he tells them. And it won't come from defying tradition, either. It will come only if we discern and fulfill the highest intent of tradition—even if doing so means breaking with the details of tradition in the process.

As a small child I had discovered that only two places are available to those who wish to remain concealed. The choices are to be a nonentity or an exception. You either disappear into a plebeian background or move forward to where most others fear to follow.

I've never been cool — and I don't care

I've never been cool - and I don't care.

Intellectuals are rebels, not revolutionaries.

Behaving never got anybody anywhere fun

I will not listen to you, or anybody else. Because you know what? Everyone think they know so goddamned much about everything and no one knows fuck all about anything.

I am not a genuine woman, but I am not interested in genuineness.

Your growling and posturing might impress the sort of women you're accustomed to consorting with,but quite frankly, I find them to be a bit of a bore. Portia to Julian

But Miles had always approached life differently than he, always preferring to blend in with his surroundings rather than to shape them, always preferring to make do. He just didn't understand that there were some things in life a man simply should not accept.

Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out.

Apply logic in places where it wasn't intended to exist.

When you break rules, break 'em good and hard

She'd never really liked the book. It seemed to her that it tried to tell her what to do and what to think. Don't stray from the path, don't open that door, but hate the wicked witch because she is wicked. Oh, and believe that shoe size is a good way of choosing a wife.

Right, pass the word along: no one is to look like a sock, understand?

To be fucking human, to not put too fine a point on it, and Daniel Boone can kiss my ass.