Quotes About Individuality

he is not like other children, not cruel, or savage. For this very reason he is called 'strange.' A child who is mature, in the sense that the heart is mature, is always, I have observed, called deficient.

Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that.

Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that.

Every man has a house-broken heart except the great man.

She was broad and tall, and though her skin was the skin of a child, there could be seen coming, early in her life, the design that was to be the weather-beaten grain of her face, that wood in the work; the tree coming forward in her, an undocumented record of time.

One's life is peculiarly one's own when one has invented it.

I don't renounce my interest in gypsy songs. I don't see anything shameful in it, as opposed to, say, Prokofiev, who pretended to be enraged when he heard such music. He probably had a better musical education than I did. But at least I'm not a snob.

Sledi sebe, to je ipak najlakše. (...) Bogdan ostade na peronu gledaju?i u voz dok se ne zagubi me?u drve?em niz Kolubaru, ne veruju?i da je najlakše slediti sebe.

Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another.

Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?

Every morning I start with a drink from my cup of sunshine, to remind myself of who I am before I step into the world of "this is who we think you are."

It's wonderful when you can bring sparkle into people's lives without fading away from your own true color. Keep the hue in you.

Sometimes I'm doing things considered crazy by others, but then my heart giggles. That's when I know I am doing the right thing.

Be proud to wear you.

Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb . . . And I also know that I'm not blonde.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

A peacock who rests on its feathers is just another turkey.

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb - and I'm not blonde either.

I make jokes about it, but it's the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn't know what she was, just this woman who was blond and piled her hair up, wore high heels and tight skirts, and, boy, she was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen. Momma used to say, "Aw, she's just trash," and I thought, That's what I want to be when I grow up. Trash.