Quotes About Individuality

He was an artist of rare ability, a self-taught artist, without teachers or schools, principles and rules, carried away only by the thirst for perfection, and treading a path indicated by his own instincts, for reasons unknown, perchance, even to himself. Through some lofty and secret instinct he perceived the presence of a soul in every object.

We all know that there are a great many faces in the world, over the carving of which nature has spent no great pains, has used no delicate tools such as files or gimlets, but has simply rough-hewn them with a swing of the arm: one stroke of the axe and there's a nose, another and there are the lips, the eyes are bored with a great drill, and without polishing it off, nature thrusts it into the world, saying, "This will do.

Solokha nodded to everyone, and everyone thought she was nodding to him alone.

I am who I am and that's who I am.

You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.

Individuals must take responsibility for their choices and cannot hide behind convention or rules.

Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved.

Calling you different doesn't mean you are excluded. It worths that you are exclusive and special.

Don't live a life you copy from others, it's definitely going to be complicated to you.

Every single star has its separate light to shine.

Admirable." Translation: Slut. "I'm confident you could have ripped the vampire's heart out with no help from Sir Conall. You would never need a hero to rescue you." Translation: Amazon.

Each man carried the War differently. I liked that Chilton announced his weakness rather than attempting to hide it.

I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.

I'm not like them, but I can pretend.

im so ugly but thats ok cuz so are you.

ERNEST FRIEDLANDER: Be quiet! Be quiet! LEO MERCURÉ: Why should we be quiet? You're making enough row to blast the roof off! Why should you have the monopoly of noise? Why should your pompous moral pretensions be allowed to hurdle across the city without any competition? We've all got lungs. Let's use them! Let's shriek like mad! Let's enjoy ourselves!

They all walk their own paths, live their own lives. A journey without farewells, a beginning without end. It is a little lonely, but that's how it is

AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.

Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball — you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.

The great Tolstoy wrote of families. He said that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women." [ Commencement Address , Wellesley College, 1996]

Why do people want everyone to act just like they do? Talk like they do. Look like they do. Act like they do. And if you don't— If you don't, people make the assumption that you do not FEEL what they feel. And then they make the assumption— That you must not feel anything at all.

Some people, like teachers and librarians and other adults, like to say that names are not important. Like sticks and stones. But they are wrong. Every word you choose means something you think it means, and more.