Quotes About Individuality

I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.

I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

Deal with yourself as a individual worthy of respect, and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and i told him i'm gonna beat out my own rhythm

They tell me I should squeeze my hopes into a miniature box of their design. But I'm not so inclined.

You can be pretty, and have a boyfriend, and still be smart, all at the same time. You don't always have to choose.

I know who I am. That's what's important—not proving something to some strangers I don't even care about

Choose whatever box you like, Mike. Just don't put me in one, son. Believe me, I won't fit.

You have to take people one at a time, check out what's in their head and heart before you judge.

Love is not me being who you want. Your definition is a whirlpool trying to suck me in and I'm drowning. Don't you see?...It's time...Time you stop telling me who to be, how to live. This is my portrait. You chose your canvas. Let me choose mine.

Is there more to me? Sure. Kids yell 'albino boy.' I don't turn around. Choose the name you answer to. No one can do that but you.

I woke up this morning exhausted from hiding the me of me. So I stand here confiding there's more to Devon than jump shot and rim. I'm more than tall and lengthy of limb. I dare you to peep behind these eyes, discover the poet in tough-guy disguise. Don't call me Jump Shot. My name is surprise.

I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.

South Carolinians are strong, independently-minded people. At the end of the day, they make their own decisions. And I respect them for that. And I welcome that. And I told him that from the very beginning.

Life can be cruel. It´s been my struggle, my personal battle, my obsession to make people see that different isn´t always bad.

Stay beautiful, keep it ugly.

Daughter of a Sikh father and a Hungarian mother, Amrita Sher-Gil in her short life (1913–41) transformed the course of Indian art. In her oft-quoted words: 'Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse and Braque and many others. India belongs only to me.

It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble, did not employ any fine tools such as files, gimlets, and so on, but simply hacked them out with round strokes: one chop-a nose appears; another chop-lips appear; eyes are scooped out with a big drill; and she lets it go into the world rough-hewn, saing: "ALIVE!

But my very latest discovery made me feel better. I had found that every rooster has his own Spain and he has it under his feathers.

Every one to his taste, one man loves the priest and another the priest's wife, as the proverb says.

Certain persons in the world exist, not as personalities in themselves, but as spots or specks on the personalities of others. Always they are to be seen sitting in the same place, and holding their heads at exactly the same angle, so that one comes within an ace of mistaking them for furniture, and thinks to oneself that never since the day of their birth can they have spoken a single word.

I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil of curiosity