Quotes About Individuality

All of us can do what we like." "No we can't. You're stupid if you think so.

Well, well," she murmurs as I back away. She makes a rectangle with her index fingers and thumbs and looks at my skin through it. "You're right," she says. "The boy's a living work of art.

They think schools stop you from learning,' I said. 'They think schools try to make everybody just the same.

Why should I write what they told me to write just because they told me to write it?

Yes no yes no yes no? Red blue? Yes red, no blue? No red, yes no? In out, up down? Do don't, can can't? Choices sit on the shelf life New shoes in a shoe shop. If the in crowd are squeezing into a must-have shoe And the one pair left are too tiny for you Don't feel compelled into choosing them If you're really a size 9, buy that size. While everyone else Hobbles round with sore feet Your choices should feel comfortable Or they aren't your choices at all. Why limp when you can sprint?

See, that why I ain't go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want'a talk to God, well I say, 'howdy-howdy, God,' and we jaw fer a bit.' - Jimmy 'Diamond' Skinner

Sheep follow blindly. We're not supposed to be sheep.

Everyone has a different lot in life. This is yours. What they have is theirs.

Yours and everybody else's," the guard said

But I think to really be part of something special, you have to find something special in yourself first.

Technically, I'm right up there, I think. But the really great artists have something—I don't think anyone can really quantify it—that I don't. But that's okay. I'm happy with

When he ate out, he ate alone. He didn't shop

You can't live someone else's life for them. Hell, it's hard enough living your own.

Just because I work there doesn't mean I have to drink all the Kool-Aid. - Veronica Knox

Indeed, growing up he'd always been considered a freak because of the way his mind worked.

Damn it, why couldn't I have a photographic memory! Thank God you don't, Caleb exclaimed in a disgusted tone. What makes you say that? Reuben demanded hotly. Because then she'd be calling you Ruby, and I'd have to be sick to my stomach.

Americans do not inderstand that artists are different from ordinary people. This does not make them insane it makes them artists

One of the most freeing things we learn in life is that we don't like everyone, everyone doesn't like us, and that's okay.

Cause I'd rather stay here With all the madmen Than perish with the sadmen roaming free And I'd rather play here With all the madmen For I'm quite content they're all as sane As me. - All the Madmen

Some make you sing and some make you scream, One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier-mache, Making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing. - Sweet Thing

And I don't care what anybody says; I like doing it, and it's what I shall continue to do

Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

My brother was one of the bigger influences in my life, in as much as he told me I didn't have to read the choice of books that I as recommended at school, and that I could go out to the library and go and choose my own, and sort of introduced me to authors that I wouldn't have read.probably. You know, the usual things like the Jack Kerouacs, the Ginsbergs, the ee Cummings and stuff.