Quotes About Nonconformity

Love is a wild child, always at odds with society.

I do not care if nobody resembles me.

Wild was the worst thing you could become in a community rigged for compliance.

Imagine the least well-adjusted kid in your school starting a breakaway clique of people whose manifesto includes a ban on the media, dancing, smoking, temperate climates, movies, drinking rock 'n' roll, having sex for fun, swimming, make-up, jewellery, playing pool, going to cities, or staying up past nine o'clock. That was Menno all over. Thanks a lot, Menno.

Forget what the culture says.

So what's the plan?' 'Why do people ask me that? Do I seem like a person who could make and then keep plans?

I could not be corseted, either literally or figuratively, into any conventional feminine mould.

I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.

Y usted qué es, Óscar? de derechas o de izquierdas? - Óscar es ácrata, papá - cortó Marina El pedazo de pan se me atragantó. No sabía lo que significaba aquella palabra, pero sonaba a anarquista en bicicleta.

The whole point of my gender transition was to free myself up. If something feels good, I'm not going to stop doing it because it doesn't fit someone else's notion of what a man is. -David Harrison

You're right, i don't have common sense. I don't want to believe what every one else believes. I have my own thoughts, things that weren't taught to me or things that I didn't read in a book. I learn from experience - you, you are afraid to experience anything and so you will always have your common sense and only your common sense.

Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

every great artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a "universal" without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.

California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.

I don't like being told what to do and kissing you-know-what to get up the corporate ladder.

If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.

We're not just 'ladies in rock.' We're weird people!

The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.

I'm aware of this bearded lady being something that is not really common.

I'm never going to look like a Nordic model, so I play with what I've got. Instead of going gray, I dye my hair bright colors; I have bad vision, so I wear sparkly glasses. I embrace that I look like a crazy lady.

I don't ever necessarily feel masculine or feminine. I just feel... I don't know. Like, when I'm wearing women's clothes, it's not like I'm dressing like a lady, a woman; it's just like I'm doing whatever I want.

I just want a lady who can be themselves, it's not a cookie cutter criteria that a woman should fall under.

I've never been much for becoming a member of a group.