To me it's awe-inspiring ... All those billions of little evolutionary steps leading to this sensation of being "me." — Simon Boswell Copy Share Image
Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer. — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. — Stockard Channing Copy Share Image
How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group? — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art. — Gene Black Copy Share Image
But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it.… — Paul Krassner Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things in this world that are more important than being popular. Being true to yourself is one… — Michael Landon Copy Share Image
Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
And if the soul Is to know itself It is into a soul That it must look: The stranger and the enemy,… — Giorgos Seferis Copy Share Image
It just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently. — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a… — Rumi Copy Share Image
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world.… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
... although many people say it is a terrible onus to be labeled bad as a child, I thought that the opposite… — Paula Sharp Copy Share Image
“No one knows, at sight a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it. Likewise a friend of Bloughram's… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't. — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue. — Rumi Copy Share Image
... but I'm always being invaded by others' souls so I can't see my own soul very well. — Shuntaro Tanikawa Copy Share Image
Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality. — Paula Sharp Copy Share Image
We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished ... — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself. — Rumi Copy Share Image
You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
“I'm not here to be small, to compare, to judge (myself or you), to fit in or to be perfect. I'm here… — Sue Fitzmaurice Copy Share Image
