Quotes About Individuality

Every single soul is a poem.

Himself Holding A Pair Of Socks

You're not normal!" she hissed. Then she gathered her garments and ran off into the night. Nouri lay back and looked up at the stars. He did not know what it meant to be normal. He only knew what it meant to be Nouri. Who had four ears. And was far from home. And was trying to find his way back to God. So he rose from the bench and made his way to his room, where he finally gave over to his crushing fatigue.

If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

Samuel McDermott or not, I was Ian McDermott, and the way I saw life was the way I'd live life.

The greatest service you can offer the world is to be your own authentic, weird and eccentric self.

You cannot force change in others, you can only inspire change in others by being your awesomely self. The greatest service you can offer the world is to be your own authentic, weird and eccentric self.

Nobody can walk on your path for you. Every person has his or her own unique path to walk. The path is not ordinary either; you will need to become extraordinary to walk it. For this reason, many people who are walking their path tend to have entrepreneurial, philosophical, creative, and even eccentric characteristics that are incorporated into their personality and outlook.

Embrace your eccentricity and creativity, live outside the norm, and wait for the world to catch up.

Seems like it's hard for an Asian bull dike with pink hair and a southern accent to fit in anywhere.

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.

What other people think about me is not my business.

They have hopes and dreams that may echo or overlap your own. And there's no reason why you can't make room for them. But what's happening to you right now, precisely at this instant, belongs only to you. Own it... This is your moment. Let someone else take the picture... just smile.

was an antidote to the self-consciousness that consumed me as an eccentric teenager in search of an identity.

Conformity, in Mill's account, is the enemy of the best way to live.

I realize I'm black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybody's wish.

In a world where everybody is over the bar, people don't buy what you know. They buy who you are.

The assumption that being gay or black necessarily harms the self-worth of all who fit this category has a patronizing dimension, because it neglects consideration of the agency that persons exercise in respect of imposed identity.

It must be nice, Queenie thought, to be one thing or another, to know where you belonged.

Cats don't think they're owned by anybody. Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they're free. Always. That may, in fact, be the most important thing about them.

My father, Vincent, a rumpled Bohemian who had followed his

My legacy would be that you don't have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of humor, you can be sexy but comfortable, you can be timeless but fresh.

There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?