Unorthodox Solutions Quotes

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times.

The truly creative people tend to be outliers.

I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.

We don't work for the government. We don't carry guns. We don't chase aliens. We are a man and a woman. The similarities end there... If 'X-Files' and 'Touched by an Angel' crashed on 'Highway to Heaven,' you'd have 'Mysterious Ways.'

I'm just a crazy person. I mean, I really didn't have any trouble coming up with weird ways for people to die. I think I'm just very twisted!

I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing.

Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.

I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.

I don't care if he's got two horns and a tail. As long as he's anti communist, we can use him.

I loved the army, but it didn't really love me. I used to get into trouble because I thought outside the square.

I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.

Richard Crossman ... has a gift, which is useful to teaching but fatal to politics, uncontrolled imagination. There is no side of an argument that he cannot see, and he can well argue that black is white. Once his mind starts working it runs away with him, and he is able to persuade himself of the truth of what he wants to hear. At the same time, with the arrogance of the intellectual, he suggests that anyone who disagrees with him is little more than an idiot.

One day, a chef moaned that he was too hot, so I took a carving knife in one hand, held his jacket with the other, and slashed it. Then I slashed his trousers. Both garments were still on his body at the time.

Actually, I think I come at things a whole different way from most people, and, you know, sometimes political answers are one way to solve the problem, and sometimes there are better ways to do it.

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.

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.

There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.

If you need a door kicked in, just call, and we'll kick it. Now, it may not always be the answer you want, but you will get an answer.

I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.

For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.