Quotes About Nonconformity

Every other 16-year-old girl wanted to look at bridal magazines; I could not have been more bored with the notion.

I grew up in Nova Scotia, so there weren't a whole lot of rules.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

People think I'm nuts.

It drives people nuts that I take them to McDonald's all the time.

I'm used to people thinking I'm nuts. And you know what? I kind of love it.

The fact that we were encouraged to follow our conscience and not to follow the crowds - that's something I really miss. On the other hand, there were things that drove me nuts in the '60s. There was an aspect of the hippie movement that everyone is an artist, which is lethal.

I'm not trying to obey the rules of radio.

I wasn't interested in sport or anything obvious, so I didn't stand out. I was interested in music, but I couldn't read music, so I wasn't allowed to do the GCSE. I was interested in painting, but no one's interested in a 16-year-old boy who's interested in painting. I wanted to get out of school very, very quickly.

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

I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing.

I am not a person that is particularly tethered to fashion, which I think is obvious to anyone who's seen me.

I wasn't an obvious actress in any sense of the word.

I didn't know if I could have a career in fashion; I didn't fit in an obvious box.

I never dress for the occasion correctly because I hate fashion rules. They're so boring.

Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up toward the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that. What happens to them? insisted Milo. Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else, said Alec thoughtfully, and I've heard that they walk among the stars.

We're not interested in making sense; it's not our job.

We are grown stiff with the ramrod of convention down our backs. ???? ?????, ????? ??????????? ???????? ???????? ???????????, ????? ???????????. (O. Henry, The Green Door)

I am not in so great a hurry to put my neck beneath any man's foot; and I do not so greatly admire the crying of babies

Wie wäre mein Leben verlaufen, wenn ich mich nicht darum geschert hätte, was die Leute denken?

In the beginning the point was not to have a point, to escape the world in which everyone had to have a job, a desk, an office.

I never really had anybody who followed me. Never wanted them. That's the thing, I guess, that set me apart from the rest of the Jeesh—I was the only one who didn't wish I were Ender.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

I much prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.