Quotes About Individuality

Welcome to freakdom, Dave. It'll be time to start a Web site soon, where you'll type out everything in one huge paragraph.

Every man is blessed with his gifts from the Lord. One of mine happens to be a penis large enough that, if it had a penis of its own, my penis's penis would be larger than your penis.

Do the bees know they make the honey for you? Or do they work tirelessly because they think it is their own choice? Have you never noticed that, after hearing a new word for the first time in your life, you'll hear it again within twenty-four hours? Do you ever wonder why sometimes you'll see a single shoe lying along the road?

Our true fear of the zombie was never that its bite would turn us into one of them. Our fear is that we are already zombies.

Falconer was wearing his street clothes—jeans, a black turtleneck and an empty shoulder holster under his armpit. Cowboy boots. Little bit of beard stubble. John wondered if the guy would walk from one end of the street to the other without winding up covered in bitches.

Anyway, it's two in the morning and we're taking turns pissing off of the tower (rather than going at the same time, because we weren't raised by wolves). So it's my turn and I'm right at that transcendent moment when the long stream of urine connects me and the ground below...

To believe our own feelings and thoughtways must be universally shared by others is the commonest of mistakes,

If we look hard enough, we can discern hundreds of parts: kings and queens, warriors and troubadours, mages, bullies, and saints. And hustlers, adventurers, survivors, rebels, reactionaries, and rogues. And the part of us that wants to be more than human, or rather more fully human. I believe that we need to enlist all these separate selves into a single army of free companions who respect each other and love each other to the death.

I am all styles yet I am no style," said Bruce Lee.

The guy with Floyd's countenance should have a name like Isaiah or Abraham or Hezekiah. The name Floyd seems mundane for such an intriguing-looking man.

Be whoever you want to be. Party all night if you want. Just come home to me.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman

Two people occupying the same air. Nothing else in common. Just oxygen.

It's not that I don't like my mum's face; it's just that it belongs on her, not me.

We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with the many problems that we face in the world.

The fact that we are different doesn't mean that one of us is wrong. It just means that there's a different kind of right. —Faith Jegede When

But, kid, you can't color your world with Lonnie's crayons, if you know what I mean. Especially when he's only using one color.

Dead Poet's Society

I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith.

Give me a defiant poseur over a trendsetter any day. The poseur understands the absurdity of trends

Fakers Are Feted, Innovators Are Isolated

In the future the question will not be "what is your chosen profession?" But rather "what is your chosen oppression?

Or as Swami Satchidananda once said, "We're born fine until we define ourselves, and then we use these definitions to see how we are different rather than how we are alike. So now we must refine ourselves.") Our participants were people who would not have had a lot to do with each other except for the fact that they had all volunteered for an unusual research project. At first it seemed like the only thing they had in common was that they all had heart disease.