Quotes About Individuality

God has created me to do some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work.

Slang surely, as it is called, comes of, and breathes of the personal

never underestimate the cool of your elders. They might be a kickass pair of lesbian superwomen who lived exactly the fuck the way they wanted to, even in what we now consider to be less enlightened times.

He was over there making Yes album covers, and here I was, with my gaudy Trump Towers of rock junk.

You may think it's enough to just read Val Kilmer's wine blog and drink whatever he recommends. And for the most part, you would be right. But sometimes Val Kilmer gets confused and drinks Thousand Island salad dressing, and so it's important to develop your own palate as well.

Nonsubordination is the simple, unspectacular struggle to shape one's life. It is people's reluctance to give up the simple pleasures of life, their reluctance to become machines, the determination to forge and maintain some degree of power-to.

The rule of identity is the rule of amnesia.

All I care about in this goddamn life are me, my drums, and you.

We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all

If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.

My dear boy, Miss Frost said sharply. My dear boy, please don't put a label on me - don't make a category before you get to know me!

WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS, IF YOU WANT TO DO THINGS YOUR OWN WAY, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION - YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIND A LITTLE COURAGE.

It seemed to Dr. Daruwalla that his story was the opposite of universal; his story was simply strange - the doctor himself was singularly foreign.

I'm just a woman with a penis! she would say, her voice rising.

Jenny Fields discovered that you got more respect from shocking other people than you got from trying to live your own life with a little privacy.

Aber das ist es nun mal, was wir tun: wir träumen weiter gegen den Strom und unsere Träume entschlüpfen uns fast so lebendig, wie wir sie heraufbeschwören können.

It's hard to pretend to be born without causing offense.

Amazing! said Mr. McSwiney. You've got a permanently fixed larynx, he told Owen. I've rarely seen such a thing, he said. Your voice box is never in repose - your Adam's apple sits up there in the position of a permanent scream. I could try giving you some exercises, but you might want to see a throat doctor; you might have to have surgery. I DON'T WANT TO HAVE SURGERY, I DON'T NEED ANY EXERCISES, said Owen Meany. IF GOD GAVE ME THIS VOICE, HE HAD A REASON, Owen said.

Aren't eccentricities fairly common among overachievers.

You're not like anyone else, Billy - that's what's the matter with you, Donna said.

You'd better leave your chromosomes at the door.

It's not the tattoos, my dear boy," Jack's father said, standing naked before him—the shocking white of William's hands and face and neck and penis being the only parts of him that weren't an almost uniform blue-black, some of which had faded to gray. "It's everything I truly heard and felt—it's everything I ever loved! It's not the tattoos that marked me.

Sometimes, when we are labeled, when we are branded, our brand becomes our calling;