Top 77 Unconventional Quotes

I think our generation, my generation at least, has become much more comfortable with unconventional romantic relationships.

I was using very unconventional methods to sequence the telemetric DNA, originally.

My parents were unconventional for Asian parents.

Just because I am open to being unconventional doesn’t mean I would pick up anything experimental.

My sister and I – she‘s a musician – we jam all the time. We always play around for giggles with stuff that seem unconventional or stuff that seems funny. A lot of the stuff sometimes is just a response from jam sessions in her room, so she’ll be on the guitar or the keyboard, and we’ll just start singing and doing stuff.

I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don’t have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.

Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. ‘Stiff‘ was an oddball book – I mean, a funny book about cadavers? – and I worried that it would be too unconventional. In the end, that’s what has made it a success, I think.

A lot goes in my mind while choosing a role. Choosing unconventional roles is not a conscious decision. I choose the most exciting and challenging role from the options I have.

Usually you’re in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that’s unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he’s a good man.

I have always stuck to my belief and conviction no matter how unconventional.

Because I’ve lived a risky and unconventional life, I don’t often struggle for subjects to write about.

I’m always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.

You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.

Endorsing unconventional monetary policies unquestioningly is tantamount to saying that it is acceptable to distort asset prices if there are other domestic constraints on growth.

Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?

Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma.

When I was younger, I used to think that my unconventional upbringing was a weakness, but over the past few years, I’ve learnt to see it as one of my greatest strengths.

My mom always knew I was going to be an actor because I was a ham from the very beginning, so she would push me toward it, which is really unconventional for Indian families to do.

I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools. I was completely confused academically, but wherever I went, I could paint. I painted an inordinate amount.

In the late 1980s, the United States and Israel believed that they had good intelligence on Iraq, but they missed the extent of Saddam Hussein‘s pursuit of unconventional weapons – until after he invaded Kuwait.

It’s been a bit of an unconventional journey – lots of ups and downs for me. But the biggest thing I’ve learned over the past few years is just to be present and really enjoy the journey.

To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, ‘Why not? Why can’t something be done?’ If someone can’t give me a good reason why you can’t do something, I find a way to do it.

My parents were rather unconventional and did not accept rules unless they thought they were defendable. They were atheists when Sweden was a very Christian country.

I don’t see myself as a conventional or an unconventional actress. I am just an individual trying to carve a niche for myself that nobody else can fill.

Rob loves my mum, I think the most in the whole world. They are two peas in a pod and I’m the one on the outside. It makes me even more in love with my husband and with my mum, because she can be bonkers and unconventional and it can be embraced.

I like being unconventional.

Because I am much like Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, I’m such an unconventional political figure that you really need to design a unique campaign that fits the way I operate.

My dad was obviously a really quirky, unconventional Asian man who didn’t care about what other people thought. When he would fight with my mom, he would be really dramatic. He would be like, ‘Devil, get away, for I am God‘s property.’ He would say crazy things that were so melodramatic but so theatrical and funny.

Choosing an unconventional career path – I am not a traditional Egyptologist by any means. I found what I love, and I have stuck with it.

I think, since the beginning, I have been attracted to unconventional films.

I like to play these unconventional characters, yes. They’re close to the way I feel as a human being.

Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that’s completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself.

As you probably know, this woman I like to call my mother went on tour for her ‘MDNA’ album. As a summer job, I decided to work in the wardrobe department. All of my friends were getting summer jobs, and I wanted one, too. Mine was a little unconventional but still a great experience and a lot of fun.

I feel like I want to make anime that destroys the norms, something that would be strong, even if it is unconventional.

My parents have a very unconventional arrangement but they are still together and married, my dad lives in London and my mum lives in Blackburn. So they have these honeymoon periods every few months and it’s just jokes.

I don’t make unconventional stories; I don’t make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

Our film industry as well as the audiences are now open to unconventional pairings and subjects, which has aided my journey greatly.

My first film was more of a light-hearted chor-police drama. ‘Dhoom 2’ focused more on the love story of two unconventional people. ‘Dhoom 3’ too is different, I hope.

Looking unconventional with all my imperfections was my great fear going into the industry.

I like to find things that are unconventional and make them look classic, because if I’m forcing something, you can just tell.

I’ve always seen ‘Y’ as an unconventional romance between a boy and his protector. It was always about the last boy on Earth becoming the last man on Earth, and the women who made that possible.

I’m a little unconventional; I do things a little differently.

Anytime an African-American writes an unconventional novel, the writer gets compared to Ellison. But that’s O.K. I am working in the African-American literary tradition. That’s my aim and what I see as my mission.

We had quite an unconventional family life because my parents ran a Chinese restaurant.

What’s the fun in doing conventional things? I would rather be known as someone who is unconventional. I like being unconventional. I like doing things which are different. That’s what I like… It gives me a boost as an actor.

My way of directing is definitely unorthodox, definitely unconventional.

My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation. They weren’t married, and I thought that was normal. We called them by their first names.

After ‘Dum Laga Ke Haisha,’ I didn’t know which way my life will head because my debut was with a very unconventional role.

If one looks at my choices, all of them have been unconventional. There’s not a single song-and-dance or romantic film.

I am lucky that I am surviving in the industry despite the kind of films I have made, which are absolutely unconventional.

Ujda Chaman’ has helped me gain more confidence in my own skills as an actor because it’s such an unusual story. Several people asked me to not go for such an unconventional role at such an early stage in my career but I had a positive feeling when I saw the movie.

I never really mind what people say about me – I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people’s disdain or nastiness upset me for long.

I think it’s helped me to have two unconventional parents, who have always encouraged me to be myself.

I’m so laid back and not high maintenance in the slightest. If I did get married, I’d probably be dancing down the aisle with the groom. I’d like something unconventional!

The trapeze was my first love. To me, it’s normal. It’s all I’ve ever known. But when I see other people’s upbringings, I think, ‘Hmm… mine was rather unconventional. Quite different!’

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.

Unconventional warfare needs to remain the heart and soul of U.S. Special Operations Command and component commands.

I don’t feel that I’ve had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.

I like the way Wiseman builds a story in an unconventional way.

The Special Operations community is rooted in unconventional warfare.

The BBC knew I was successful from early on, but they weren’t sure why, and they still aren’t sure. What I do has been unconventional from the beginning, so they’ve never been sure. It just works. It just does.

My mother was a very unconventional kind of a woman.

I’ve never been interested in diarising my life through song. So much stuff has been done before. So many people have brilliantly articulated the pain of heartbreak or the joy of love or whatever. Those elements exist in our music, but I guess I strive to write about unconventional things instead.

Increased and better screening for explosives is necessary – and Congress should fund it and TSA should implement it as quickly as possible – however that screening doesn’t reduce the risk posed by a trained terrorist with an unconventional weapon.

My career has been far from cliched. I have always done unconventional roles and I am proud of all of them.

What has now become conventional in terms of digital marketing and the discovery of new talent was once very unconventional – and people forget that.

I like doing things in a very minimal, unconventional way as a personal way of saying, ‘Look, I made a career out of carefully and craftfully, though unconventionally, making records on laptops and blown speakers.’

I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn’t have a nose job and money and if you weren’t thin, you weren’t cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn’t pretty enough to be on television.

My dad was a very unconventional Asian American man. He was very much not quiet, not shy, not passive. If he had to fart, he’d do it in the library. He did not care. He was like, ‘I don’t know these people. I’m uncomfortable, and I need to let it go.’

In 2003, when I wrote the first ‘Dhoom,’ we were at the end of the curve of a certain kind of Hindi film, which was quite plastic. ‘Dhoom’ was unconventional then.

I must be honest here; I don’t think there’s such a thing as ‘unconventional’ when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They’ll read anything.

As unconventional as John was, he was also old-fashioned. Because of the nature of our relationship, John felt uneasy and never met my mum, which he later regretted. He would hide behind the door until she left.

My choices in life have been unconventional, and that’s my business. But I do want to live responsibly and truthfully without hiding.

I would say ‘American Werewolf in London’ is like an unconventional buddy movie: even if the buddy dies 20 minutes in, he still remains throughout the picture, and their partnership is one of the best things in the movie.

Nobody is going to just come and give you money unless you’ve proven yourself, especially if you’re doing something that is unconventional or unorthodox and outside the way the industry thinks.

I’m drawn to the unconventional because I’ve been drawn unconventionally. I believe that I’m supposed to topple over these false images of what’s idealistically beautiful. Because, of course, these intangible qualities are very attractive to women. Sincerity. Sense of humor. Success.

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.