Quotes About Nonconformity

She was permitting herself the luxury she had often dreamed-of doing exactly what she pleased and telling people who didn't like it to go to hell. To her had come that pleasant intoxication peculiar to those whose lives are a deliberate slap in the fact of organized society-the gambler, the confidence man, the polite adventuress, all those who succeed by their wits.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

I don't have any rules, because I would only be breaking them, so it's a waste of time

I didn't want to be a loser, but I didn't want to fit in at the same time because I don't like just being ordinary. So it's one of those situations where I always kept my head up.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.

There comes a time as an artist, can't follow the crowd. You have to do YOU, and make the crowd follow you.

I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.

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

When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way.

I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.

I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

I've made up my mind to lead a different life from other girls, and not to become an ordinary housewife later on.

Dreadlocks make people wonder if you're trying to be rebellious.

I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young person, like me, accepted being alone quite a lot. I think that this sort of person often becomes either a writer or a career criminal.

I do not always observe the rules of society, but I am quite aware of what they are!

Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!

And do stop trying to determine if I am a man or a woman. The fact is I'm a good part both and therefore neither one. I was just explaining to your Aunt Queen. I was born endowed with the finest traits of both sexes and I drift this way and that as I choose.

I don't play by anybody's rules but my own.

No te das cuenta? Yo no soy el espíritu de mi época. Tengo problemas con todo y siempre los he tenido. ¡Nunca me he sentido a gusto en ninguna parte ni con nadie!

No te das cuenta? Yo no soy el espíritu de mi época. Tengo problemas con todo y siempre los he tenido. ¡Nunca me he sentido a gusto en ninguna parte ni con nadie!.