Quotes About Individuality

I never use colors. Black and white are all I need. Most of my clothes are black and white, too. I suppose the most flamboyant color in my wardrobe is dark brown.

I know everyone's voice from everyone else's in a way that's almost impossible to describe. There's a weird clarity to it — like each voice is a ribbon, stretched out, glittering, unique in its color, depth, variety. I hear them like hearing is seeing. Trey has a purple voice, low and dark and deep...

William Ralston Balch, 1883

Pink is not just a color. It's an attitude.

When in doubt, wear red. It always stands out in a room full of people.

Adventure most unto itself The Soul condemned to be; Attended by a Single Hound – Its own Identity.

The one thing in the world of value, is, the active soul, — the soul, free, sovereign, active. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed, and as yet unborn.

Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection.

I may be a twin but I'm one of a kind.

Be a vintage typewriter in a world full of laptops.

Being a person is getting too complicated. Time to be a unicorn.

His vanity stands alone, sky-piercing, as sharp of outline as an Egyptian monolith. It is the only unpleasant feature in him that is not modified, softened, compensated by some converse characteristic.

I am broccoli, and I look like a tree. I am a walnut, and I look like a brain. I am a mushroom, and I hate this game.

Being an author is being in charge of your own personal insane asylum.

When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait.... "The only thing an artist can do is describe his own face." You're doomed to being you. This, he says, leaves us free to draw anything, since we're only drawing ourselves. Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away.... Everything is a self-portrait.

A signature is the shape of our personality; it's our nameprint, our soulmark in ink.

Capricorn: "If you don't like me, that's your problem not mine."

Aquarians are normal. The rest of the world is weird.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.... the poet brings his poem... the farmer, corn... the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing. This is right and pleasing, for it restores society in so far to its primary basis, when a man's biography is conveyed in his gift... But it is a cold, lifeless business, when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

I'm a dandelion in a harsh wind.

One man's quiet is another man's din.

Coloring outside the lines is a fine art.

When you dance to your own rhythm, Life taps its toes to your beat.