{"quotes":[{"text":"I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.","author":"Lori R. Lopez","tags":["books","eccentric","humor","offbeat","quirky","rules","style","unconventional","unusual","writing"],"id":1007,"author_id":"Lori+R.+Lopez"},{"text":"I must apologize for calling so late,' said he, 'and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","tags":["back-garden-wall","doctor-watson","escape","late-visit","scrambling","sherlock-holmes","unconventional"],"id":51544,"author_id":"Arthur+Conan+Doyle"},{"text":"I felt that the magical people must be in the hidden back roads and dusty cubby holes of life; on highways, in hostels, and in shabby, smoky cafes. These enchanting people are in trees, around fires and under hand-knit hats and street lamps reflecting gold on rain soaked pavement. They dance while others dangle; they vibrantly sing the songs that get jumbled and stuck in the subconscious of others who only wish to catch tune. They are the rare ones whose uncommon experiences touch your heart through just a wink of their eye, the stories stitched in the holes of their shoes, invoking a longing for the unknown, taking others to a place of missing what they've never even had -- they do not settle, they do not compromise.","author":"Jackie Haze","tags":["adventure","life","settling","society","status-quo","travel","unconventional"],"id":84895,"author_id":"Jackie+Haze"},{"text":"Often I didn’t think I was cut out for the way the world is, being born into a common culture and system I would never choose for myself.","author":"Jackie Haze","tags":["convention","culture","free-spirit","life","society","status-quo","system","unconventional"],"id":94363,"author_id":"Jackie+Haze"},{"text":"If you don't fit into a box you can always try to fit into a circle.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["be-different","creativity","different","ingenuity","out-of-the-box-thinking","stand-out-from-the-crowd","success","unconventional","unconventionality","uniqueness"],"id":138921,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"Go be absolutely, positively, fucking angelic.","author":"Kathleen Glasgow","tags":["encouragement","hope","optimism","positive-thinking","unconventional"],"id":141846,"author_id":"Kathleen+Glasgow"},{"text":"Stand out because you think differently.Stand out because you speak differently.Stand out because you act differently.Stand out because you work differently.Stand out because you live differently.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["brilliance","eccentricity","excellence","genius","greatness","stand-out-from-the-crowd","success","unconventional","unconventionality","unique"],"id":158688,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["a-good-friend","ask","asking","benevolence","bond","character","discerning","disguise","favour","friendship","genuine","giver","givers","giving","help","helper","helping","love","magnanimity","michael-bassey-johnson","perception","plead","sensitive","sensitivity","spotting-out","true-friend","unconventional"],"id":165236,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"The times on the open road with all the unknown ahead were the times I was happiest and most secure, with people who knew our core and lived solely for the purpose of unmediated experiences and love, from which purpose itself is born. Not the distant idea of life, love and purpose dirtied by constructs.","author":"Jackie Haze","tags":["convention","core","experience","free-spirit","freedom","life","life-and-living","love","nomad","open-road","purpose","status-quo","travel","unconventional","vagabond","values"],"id":173589,"author_id":"Jackie+Haze"},{"text":"Individuality is but another act of segregation. We need instead learn the process of Individuation. One is to know thyself merely to be a single brick within the wall of mass creation and group consciousness.","author":"Tyler Hebert","tags":["consciousness","esotericism","individuation","life","new-age","psychology","self","spirituality","unconventional"],"id":210537,"author_id":"Tyler+Hebert"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}