Florence King Quotes

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable.

You have to realize that people are always going to be confused or sometimes threatened by someone who has the confidence to do something different.

It's important to be unconventional.

I didn't wear a helmet because I wanted to show that the bowler wasn't intimidating me, and also that's just the way I liked to bat.

I like to be against the odds.

In my personal life, I have always been bold, from the clothes I wear to how I talk. For me, boldness does not necessarily mean stripping. I think people have wrong notion about boldness. For me, bold is being different.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

I guess edgy things tend to get my attention.

I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.

Even if we're not doing anything wrong, there are certain things we want to do that we don't think can withstand the scrutinizing eye of other people. And those are often the most important things that we do. The things we do when other people are watching are things that are conformist, obedient, normal, and unnotable.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.

Daring to wear something different takes effort.

I think that everybody would love to play the bad girl, 'cause for most of us, it's a stretch.

I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.

Take a walk on the wild side.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

There's always opposition when you do something big. I do many things that are controversial. When people see it, they love it!

From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

I'm always captivated by stories of women who find a way to be daring - misbehaving women.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

I don't follow trends. I set my own and I go for the extreme.

Conforming is not cool.