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Quotes About Nonconformity

La coherencia es mutilación. Quiero el desorden
~ Clarice Lispector
A coerência, não a quero mais. Coerência é mutilação. Quero a desordem.
~ Clarice Lispector
There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.
~ Clint Eastwood
I tried being reasonable, but I didn't like it.
~ Clint Eastwood
The creative talent belongs to the outsider, and to be an outsider is the artist's fate.
~ Unknown
He follows his own way these days, even more than most of us. 'Twas as goof a description of madness as any I've heard.
~ Hilari Bell
There don't have to be first dates and second dates. We're not normal. We can do this anyway you want. A relationship can be whatever you want it to be. We get to make this part up. We get to tell our own story.
~ Holly Black
I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.
~ Holly Black
Algunos entre nosotros no encuentran a los mortales hermosos. De hecho, algunos de ustedes podrían jurar que Jude es poco atractiva. Pero yo creo que es sólo que su belleza es... única. Enloquecedora. Alarmante. Angustiante.
~ Holly Black
Breathe in. She didn't give a fig what other people thought! Breathe out. Rubbish. She gave a whole fig tree.
~ Liane Moriarty
Tell em kiss my ass, call it kiss and tell.
~ Lil Wayne
Im about to go Andre the Giant, you a sell out but I aint buyin.
~ Lil Wayne
I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.
~ Lil Wayne
Fuck Kerouac; he would write his own story.
~ Unknown
If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.
~ Linda Ellerbee
If you believe in your heart that you are right, then you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.
~ Linda Ellerbee
Giraffes don't play golf.
~ Unknown
I have my life. I have my values. And compared with much of society, especially football, that is radical.
~ Kaka
In general, I'm fascinated by women who exist outside of society's mores and values.
~ Liz Goldwyn
I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
~ Rachel Zoe
I had no interest in being your basic vanilla girl. I've been lucky enough that I haven't had to play that.
~ Emma Caulfield
I'm tired of living the vanilla, non-offensive life. I think that's a really sad way to spend my life, and I lived it like that because that's what I was brought up in, taught to not rock the ship.
~ Dan Reynolds
I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.
~ Michelle Shocked
For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see.
~ Ruth Ozeki