Quotes About Individuality

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

Ja nie dla ludzi chc? by? kim?. Chc? by? kim? dla siebie.

Just because we are wearing lipstick doesn't mean we can't kick your ass!

I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.

Or we may feel successful but not be perceived that way by others. Most of us go through life borrowing someone else's definition of success rather than coming up with our own! Through repeated media exposure, we find it easy to begin using cultural success markers.

What I did, I did on my own. Don't mourn me. Be joyful.

M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.

Like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

Lonely, ain't it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.

You're right. I don't need them in front of me, Sis. But, as each tree is different, so is each branch and leaf and flower. What I'm painting this afternoon can't be painted again. They're all different. Once this flower dies there won't be another quite the same.

Fair enough. We all have our own place. Or should do.

I am a Socialist not through reading a textbook that has caught my intellectual fancy, nor through unthinking tradition, but because I believe that, at its best, Socialism corresponds most closely to an existence that is both rational and moral. It stands for co-operation, not confrontation; for fellowship, not fear. It stands for equality, not because it wants people to be the same but because only through equality in our economic circumstances can our individuality develop properly.

Keed, ya ever feel like you were in the circus?" But before Grant could answer, he was startled by Babe's next words. "I do. All the time. It's the circus, and I'm one of the freaks.

Soy un chico —contestó Jared—. Y, bueno, ésta es mi hermana. Una chica. —Ésa no es una chica —replicó—. ¿Dónde está su vestido? —Los vestidos pasaron de moda hace siglos —dijo Mallory con una sonrisa maliciosa.

You can never get away from your own self.

Don't say we're not right for each other because the way I see it, we might not be right for anyone else...

And the white guy, I just barely got a look at him. They all sort of look alike anyway. All I notice is freckles and sunburn.

Alternatively, we could say that voice embodies, not any set of particular facts, but the presence of a self, a personality or a sensibility.

As Zen practitioners might say. two people looking at the same mountain are not seeing the same mountain, and so poetic "worldliness" can take an infinite number of versions: the sensibility of an individual artist is as distinct as a fingerprint.

If there was an overriding message in his journals, it was that people, the world over, were alike in their essential nature—even if they ate their enemies, made love in public, worshipped idols, or, like Aborigines, cared not at all for material goods.

I never had a cool older brother or sister to turn me on to cool music. I had to discover it for myself.

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

She wasn't the kind who cared about signs, she moved through the world as if she had a right to be there - anywhere, everywhere. Like a woman in a book, like a girl in a song.

never fall for anyone who prefers speaking someone else's words.