Quotes About Individuality

A name is important. It isn't something you drop in the litter basket or on the ground. Your name is now people know you. The very mention of your name makes a picture spring to mind, whether it's a picture of clashing fists or a mighty mountain that can't be knocked down. Your name is who you are and how you're known even when you do something great or something dumb.

There was also one Anthony, whose mama could spell, and one Antnee, whose mama couldn't. It

A name is important. It isn't something you drop in the litter basket or on the ground. Your name is how people know you. The very mention of your name makes a picture spring to mind, whether it's a picture of clashing fists or a mighty mountain that can't be knocked down. Your name is who you are and how you're known even when you do something great or something dumb.

methods of education that would bring out pupils' individuality and equip them to understand the world around them.

Locke has the idea that men were free to think of god in their own way, not as any religion told them to…

What's the link between the woman who boldly fights for social justice and the one who boldly has fun? Both are acting powerfully, because each is rejecting preconceived notions of how females 'should' behave.

Leaders typically don't follow the crowd, that is unless they're trying to escape a burning building.

Truants like you should understand art. The way to free y'rself from any system of control is to do something useless.

The way to free yourself from any system of control is to do something useless. But do it as well as you can!

While using generics, people describe themselves as who they want to be, not who they actually are. You need to get specific to bring out the edge cases.

Learn from your mentors, own the traits of the greats but acknowledge your own unique abilities.

I was once asked to play strip poker, but I'm more comfortable with strip solitaire.

You can't beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude.

Some of us are born Gladys Knights, and some of us are born Pips.

Girls are the White Album and they all have Revolution 9's. They have all that stuff you wish you could edit out. When you fall in love with a girl, she's the bloody White Album. That is what you whisper to yourself, when you don't understand her at all. You just keep telling yourself, she's the bloody Beatles White Album and there's only one of her.

The important thing isn't that we're freakazoidal about the same things--it's that she's as freakazoidal about her stuff as I am about mine, and that enthusiasm can't help but unite us, even if the object thereof doesn't. If two people are twisted enough to connect on a deep level, it's only natural there will be lots of angles where they don't connect at all.

There's only the one, see. When you fall in love with a girl, she's the bloody White Album. That is what you whisper to yourself, when you don't understand her at all. You just keep telling yourself, she's the bloody Beatles White Album and there's only one of her.

I had never been so extravagantly proud of having blood that clotted.

I'd have too much John ("Oh Yoko!," "I'm Steppin' Out," "Oh My Love," "New York City," "Nobody Told Me") and too much Paul ("Jet," "Friends to Go," "Flaming Pie," "Too Many People," "We Got Married," "Simple as That," "Hi, Hi, Hi," "You Gave Me the Answer").

There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.

Girls take up a lot of room. I had a lot of room for this one.

Salinger, Plath, Toole, the literature of choice for the brooding outcast.

For one ridiculous moment she considered changing into something sexier—at least from the waist up, as that was all he'd see on his camera—but decided not to bother. Logan had fallen in love with her in striped T-shirts and jeans. There was no need to mess with a winning formula.

Niko was a man of few words and flying, sugary snacks. I like that in a human. ~Catcher