Quotes About Nonconformity

I'm making a statement about conformity." For or against?" That's for the viewer to decide. I'm an artist, not a preacher." Agnes Phiffer & Osbert Monk in The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn

Trotseer ze, Bloem-Alice-Claire. Bied weerstand aan hun overheersing. Daar ben je sterk genoeg voor. Je bent altijd een rebel geweest, altijd op zoek naar verklaringen waar anderen de dingen klakkeloos accepteerden... Je hebt nooit toegegeven, liefje, je bent nooit met de kudde meegehobbeld. - Al

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

Everybody's serious but me.

The kids kept walking, moving through the Henley's halls like a tide, but when Kat turned to leave, she walked in the opposite directions. She wasn't an ordinary kid, after all. Katarina Bishop followed no one.

So you just…left?" Zach huffed. "All the cool kids are doing it.

Colin smirks, "The only things I have to do are stay queer and die.

Rules should always be bent, if not broken. It's the only way to have any fun.

I don't follow any of what the pop world is doing. Sometimes I feel like that's a weakness, actually, that I'm too in my own bubble. But I'm really just interested in the inner journey. And pop is all about the exterior world, the material.

A barrier for me - which has been both a strength and a weakness - has been my taste. The kind of things I'm interested in aren't always mainstream.

Now I'm old... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon... and it's great!

I'm not changing the way I dress: I refuse to wear a suit.

I'm not just edgy, and I'm not just into a tomboy look, and I'm not just girly. I do what I want, and if I like something, I'll wear it.

I never wanted to wear skirts or shoes, makeup, nails, dresses, or even wear my hair a certain way. I always wanted to wear sneakers, stud earrings, hair in a ponytail, and play with the boys.

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.

Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.

My mum never put those fashion ideals into the house. I didn't wear make-up, and I had my hair all frizzy.

Will Rogers wasn't helpful to me at all. He was just concerned with his way of doing things. He didn't like me much because I used to wear slacks to the studio, and that was not done much in those days, so I guess he thought I was rather fast.

I never wear suits.

Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.

I'm naturally androgynous. I don't wear makeup or skirts.

I didn't want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.