Unconventionality Quotes

A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay.

I find that I'm quite experimental. I'm drawn to the brighter and weirder things.

Woo the muse of the odd.

When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours. It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

The weirder the better for me.

Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

I like weird. I like weird a lot.

My friend named his car. And I don't want to be judgemental, but... what a dork.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.

I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.

I like extremes.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.

I really want to be different.

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

I'm unconventional and eccentric and talk things out, and it seemed that the person I married - maybe in reaction - got quieter and more conventional over time. It felt as if we were putting each other in a straitjacket.

I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself anylonger for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall bethe happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that youshould. I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust thatwhat is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moonwhatever inly rejoices me, and the heart appoints. If you are noble, Iwill love you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself byhypocritical attentions. If you are true, but not in the same truthwith me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general public likes sometimes.

I was anti social, but at the same time, people gravitated to that because they wanted to figure out who I was and why I was how I was.

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.

The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.