Quotes About Uniqueness

No one is black and white or good or bad or happy or sad or what have you. [All have] particular idiosyncrasies that make them fascinating and that's how I tend to approach a character.

We want to be special for being important. But, sometimes... We become important for being special.

There will never be another like the other. A mother remains like no other... the same with friends and foes. Nothing replaces the other.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.

Whereas all humans have approximately the same life expectancy the life expectancy of stars varies as much as from that of a butterfly to that of an elephant.

Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

Sadly, my socks are like snowflakes, no two are exactly alike.

If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.

Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.

The Punkwat twins! Brentwood is the world's smallest giant, whilst his brother, Elwood, is the largest midget in the world. They baffle science!

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

I'd rather be known as a freak than a science project.

Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring." I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.

Don't be afraid to be who you are, we were created to perfect in our own imperfect way.

It is always in the creating your path, not in the fitting in the society.

Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be, that's stupid. So be yourself.

I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

It is precisely those who are apparently aloof from the world who build for themselves a remarkable and thoroughly individual world in miniature, using their own special equipment, termite-like.

Without the extension and/or transcendence of self-love, survival is not the kind of survival that sets humans apart from the beasts (and--never forget it--the angels).