Quotes About Nonconformity

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.

She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her she should be.

I think I want a guy who eats vegetables. And who isn't so normal. He was just a muffin, you know?

Now is when we can stop pretending to be normal.

I don't care what you think, so it's perfectly ok.

Maurice hated cricket. It demanded a snickety neatness he could not supply.

He no play-da-game. He no make-a-da rules!

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice... it is conformity.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice ... it is conformity." And there you have the reason for so many failures. Conformity — people acting like everyone else, without knowing why or where they are going.

I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.

I believe an elsewhere can and must be found here: in our efforts to refuse to accommodate and adjust to the status quo and in those very small moments when we make choices that place us outside of the norms and expectations that confine us, when we cultivate the capacity to say no. In

The hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

Grow a beard, take a bath, burn a billboard

Where're your papers?" "My what?" "Your I.D. -- draft card, social security, driver's license." "Don't have none. Don't need none. I already know who I am.

People who think that love, sex, marriage, work, play, life and death are serious matters are urged NOT to read this book. Buy it, yes, but don't read it. [Regarding "The Fool's Progress"]

Serious critics, serious librarians, serious associate professors of English will if they read this work dislike it intensely; at least I hope so.

How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

One of the best things in being a criminal is having no schedule.

A stubborn and rebellious generation.

What would the fearsome Lou Reed insist on? Boys? Girls? Drugs? No, kielbasa.