Quotes About Nonconformity

Indigos express their "rage against the machine" in many different ways. Fashion

When you didn't live in a strict corporate world, you didn't have to worry about fitting in and being politically correct all the time. You could afford the luxuries of self-expression. We took advantage of self-expression in spades.

It struck her as extremely characterless for any human being to sit around waiting for execution. It wasn't that she had so much character, thought Mrs. Pollifax, but rather that always in her life she had found it difficult to submit. The list of her small rebellions was endless. Surely there was room for one more?

What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said.

In short, our Marianne is just not in the common style. We shall simply have to present her as an original." She sobered abruptly. "How very stupid Perry was, to be sure. This girl might have changed his life." To this uncharacteristically severe judgment on the part of his normally charitable parent, the marquess returned no answer.

Life isn't for everybody.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.

Wrong way down a one-way, women dont get saved round me even on a Sunday.

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.

Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

I've been an outsider all my life - I don't care.

Anyone who was a rebel at one time in life cannot return to being conventional.

Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you.

I'm a role model for those who dare to be different. For those who dare to take a stand in their life and have an opinion

Life is short, break the rules.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered !My life is my own.

I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.

I believe life's too short for compromises and bad fitting jeans

Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.