Quotes About Uniqueness

Having the freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

I'd rather be myself,' he said. 'Myself and unhappy. Not somebody else, however cheerful.

A red rose absorbs all colors but red; red is therefore the one color that it is not.

Nadie es todo el mundo, ni nadie es repetido. Parecido, puede ser. Repetido, no. Y eso es la vida: encontrar a los parecidos y esquivar a los repetidos. Lo demás llega o no, aparece o no, duele o no

I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world.

E per un attimo le tornò quell'argentea sfrontatezza che aveva da giovane, quando sapeva di non essere né peggio né meglio di tanti altri, ma solamente diversa, in un modo prezioso e inevitabile. Era quando tutto le faceva paura, ma ancora non aveva paura di niente.

Jasper Gwyn diceva che tutti siamo qualche pagina di un libro, ma di un libro che nessuno ha mai scritto e che invano cerchiamo negli scaffali della nostra mente. Mi disse che quello che cercava di fare era scrivere quel libro per la gente che andava da lui. Le pagine giuste.

She was tuned in to a different station from most people and the tuning dial was broken.

We are not polyester people.

This girl, now in her early teens, had never had a photograph of herself. There was no record of her childhood, nothing which would remind her of what she used to be. There was nothing, no image, of which she could say: That is me. And all this meant that there was nobody who had ever wanted her picture; she had simply not been special enough.

If people have ghosts, then why shouldn't other things have them? What makes us so special that only we can have ghosts?

something just because everybody

The recipe for each child is just for that child, even if it is the same mother and father.

We were all different, she thought, and it was important to remind oneself of that. It was important, too, to imagine what it must be like to be another person. That was a simple thing to do, and its effect could be salutary.

There's nowt so queer as folk?

Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.

All of us are mad and then she adds,smiling, but I'm the only one with a certificate to prove it

You don't have to do anything, you only have to be what you are.

How could he encapsulate in a pithy admissions-interview line all of his unique ideas and interests?

QUIRK THEORY: Many of the differences that cause a student to be excluded in school are the same traits or real-world skills that others will value, love, respect, or find compelling about that person in adulthood and outside of the school setting.

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

People are like snowflakes, no two are ever alike.

Indigos express their "rage against the machine" in many different ways. Fashion

have meant anything to anyone except me. So what?