Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.

Mavericks are nonconformists. They pride themselves on going it alone.

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

I'm a bit of a rebel, and I always will be.

At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik.

I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.

I think I always had, like, a rebellious spirit. But it wasn't a rebellious spirit to do wrong. It was a rebellious spirit to do something different.

I'm probably going to forever be weird.

I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

I'm kind of desperately looking for those things that will... you know, sort of show my wilder side, in a way, my much more irreverent, badly behaved side.

I was always told that I was too strange or that I was too cheesy by different groups of people, like the record companies said I was way too weird and the indie people wouldn't even let me in their band.

I've never been a yes man.

I'm always looking at how I can be atypical.

I may be a maverick, but it doesn't mean I like playing tricks.

I like to play by my own rules.

My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.

I'm kind of in between a goody-goody and a rebel. I'm not bad, but I'm not good either. I'm a little crazy.

My point of view has always been a bit more offbeat.

I don't ever want to be considered some vanilla sherbet kinda guy.

I can't help but do things my own way.

I'm not the most normal type of person there is.

No one could put my personality in a box. I didn't necessarily fit in.

I don't think of myself as a maverick at all. Quite the opposite - I really think of myself as quite conventional but dispersed over unusual territory.

I'm the weirdest alien on this planet. I don't do anything by routine.