Quote by James Thurber Download Open image “Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?” — James Thurber ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
When people call themselves noncomformants, they're conforming to noncomformity. If you really want to be yourself, don't label yourself. — David Henning Copy Share Image
Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it.… — William H. Whyte Copy Share Image
When I was in fourth grade, we were learning vocabulary words, and the word nonconformist came up. The teacher said, "It's somebody who whatever… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
A non-conformist will never feel like he's any part of a clique or a group. And that's the life I signed up for. — Harshvardhan Kapoor Copy Share Image
I'm a member of no party. I have no ideology. I'm a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle between science… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought up in… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.” — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“Against the may, the could be, and the should, folly 'tis to balance doubt or hope.” — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“ There was an old coddle so molly, He talked in a glot that was poly, His gaws were so gew That his laps… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“you might as well fall on your face as lean over too far backwards” — james thurber Copy Share Image
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“I don’t understand,” said the scientist, “why you lemmings all rush down to the sea and drown yourselves.” “How curious,” said the lemming. “The… — James Thurber Copy Share Image