Quotes About Uniqueness

People differ in their talents, their intellectual strengths and weaknesses, their preferred forms of imagery, their mental vigor.

I'd like to think they're staring at me because of my white-hot animal magnetism, but I'm not Elvis. I'm Lobster Boy, hear me roar.

You know, that's what I hate: when you start talking like this, like you just pull in these things from the shit you read, and you haven't thought it out for yourself, no bearing on the world around us, and totally unoriginal.

You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.

Sometimes it takes travelling the world to realize that it isn't ok to be different, it's freaking awesome!

People talk of life's storms as if they are universal experiences. But they're not. Some people hear thunder while others touch lightning.

On the calendar, all the days look the same, but they do not carry the same weight.

Civilized yards are all alike. Every wild yard is wild in its own way.

Why be normal? What's the point?

There are no "great" subjects for the creative writer; there are only the singular details of a single human life.

Somewhere out there is someone who wants exactly the kind of person you are, complete with all the flaws and failings you come with.

You know that part of your writing that you question, —that's weird and doesn't fit neatly into a genre or mold?Write more of that. Please.

the implication is clear: there is something odd about us. We are not like other animals. In most circumstances, we need cooked food.

The evidence that Homo sapiens have been self-domesticating for three hundred thousand years, and how it happened, suggests that we are a thoroughly unusual primate.

I am not here in this life to be well balanced or admired. I'm here to be an oddball, eccentric, different, wildly imaginative, creative, daring, curious, inventive and even a tad strange at times.

if America means anything at all, it means the sufficiency of the common, the insufficiency of the uncommon.

Odd that a thing is most itself when likened

I want your opinion.? ?That,? Adrian said, ?is not something I hear a lot.?

Every relationship is different. Everyone loves differently.

Maybe instead of stalking her, you should go out with someone else." He sighed. "You don't think I've tried? How can anyone compare? You might not believe this, but there is no one like Ageline at this school.

No one was normal, not really.

Are you some kind of mutant human? Like a fire user? And I use mutant as a compliment, you know. I wouldn't think less of you.

Every relationship is different. Everybody loves differently.

Don't try to sound cool. Guys do that all the time, and I'm telling you it's a complete turnoff, okay? Just be you. You're cute; live with it. But don't try to sound like James Bond or something, because you're not. - Summer Sumner