Quotes About Individuality

Cuando uno deja de obedecer los dictados universitarios, todos los enfoques tienen algo que ofrecer." -Metageneaología-

It's not enough to quote someone; it's important to specify what aspect of that person you're referencing. Every time we talk about someone, we speak of that person as if our perception is the same for everyone. When

I don't live in France, I live in myself.

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

If you are great, El Topo is a great picture. If you are limited, El Topo is limited.

No acepto ya la condición de Hombre-Avispa, de Hombre-Ninguno, ni admito que el ritmo de mi existencia sea marcado por el mazo de un cómitre.

You have to be taught to recognize and care about differences, you have to be instructed who you really are; you have to learn how generations of dead people and their incomprehensible accomplishments made you the way you are; you have to define your loyalty to an abstraction-based herd that transcends your individuality.

Do you hear that, Dillon? Inadvertent self-wedgie! Write that down! That's what you want your characters to say, not some anodyne bullshit about corporate greed.

You are not the fat girl. You are voluptuous!...You are an angle descended from the heavens, a goddess of plenty walking among the denizens of hell where stick figures reign supreme.

Quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own.

There are many things wrong with you. A hangover just isn't one of them.

Then quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own.

Which makes us. . ." ". . . blessedly unrelated," Rumbold finished.

Alex Anderson

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

At an academic conference I learned the old adage that everything has been said, but not everyone has said it.

sweating like demons they scream through our speakers, but we leave the sound on cuz silence is harder and no one's the killer and no one's the martyr. The world that has made us can no longer contain us.

I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them.

A shoe that fits one person pinches another.

I remember how Talia got me to talk about the gardening thing. I've never told anyone else about that, but with this girl, I sort of feel like I can be myself without worrying about looking uncool. After all, she doesn't even know what "cool" is.

But it's not enough. I don't look human. If I went outside, people would scream at the sight of me. Looks matter to most people. That's reality in the world." "Not my world." I petted Pilot. "I like your world, Will, but it doesn't have a very big population. I'm going to let her go.

sono pecore,che seguono il gregge. Votano per persne cosiddette popolari perchè è facile. La bellezza esteriore: capelli biondi,occhi azzurri" - mi stava guardando - " è sempre facile riconoscerla. Ma se qualcuno è coraggioso, forte, in gamba, è difficile vederlo

It's intriguing. I've always felt like a freak myself. But what would it be like, to wear my freakishness on the outside, to have it be obvious to the world?

Somewhere down the road...I hope you find [that girls] don't all have the same thing between their ears. The good ones don't put up with macho mind games.