Quotes About Uniqueness

They spoke to me of people, and of humanity. But I've never seen people, or humanity. I've seen various people, astonishingly dissimilar, Each separated from the next by an unpeopled space.

What happens to us either happens to everyone or only to us: in the first instance it's banal; in the second it's incomprehensible.

É preciso que todos os que lidam comigo se convençam de que sou assim, e que exigir-me os sentimentos, aliás muito dignos, de um homem vulgar e banal, é como exigir-me que tenha olhos azuis e cabelo louro.

On the other side sit we — the errand boy from around the corner, the unruly playwright William Shakespeare, the barber who tells stories, the schoolmaster John Milton, the shop assistant, the vagabond Dante Alighieri, those whom death either forgets or consecrates and whom life forgot and never consecrated.

Fortunately for humanity, each man is only himself and only the genius is given the ability to be others as well.

To belong is synonymous with banality.

Now he is something anyone can be.

La gran dificultad que presenta para mi orgullo el contemplar paisajes es la circunstancia dolorosa de que seguro que ya alguien los ha contemplado con la misma intención.

20 [56] That is the central error of a literary imagination: the idea that other people are like us and must therefore feel like us. Fortunately for humanity, each man is only himself and only the genius is given the ability to be others as well.

El río de la posesión Que todos somos diferentes es un axioma de nuestra naturaleza. Sólo nos parecemos de lejos, en la medida, por tanto, de que no somos nosotros. La vida es, en fin, para los indefinidos; sólo pueden convivir quienes nunca se definen, y son nadie los unos para los otros.

Mi s-a vorbit despre oameni,despre umanitate, Numai c? eu n-am v?zut niciodat? nici oameni,nici umanitate. Am v?zut diver?i oameni vertiginos de diferi?i unii fa?? de al?ii, Fiecare separat de cel?lalt de un spa?iu lipsit de oameni.

I envy in everyone the fact that they are not me.

La vida del hombre no puede "ser vivida" repitiendo los patrones de su especie; es él mismo –

Los existencialistas no piensan en el hombre como especie, sino en su absoluta singularidad. En

When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been anticlimax.

My daddy said I was a different breed of dog from my brothers and sisters. 'You know,' Daddy said, 'it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!

The scandalous "word of the cross" is God's own Word. The link between scandal and God is in itself irreligious; this is another aspect of the uniqueness of the Christian message.

I hope we go down in history for being something more than just another famous act that got ripped off.

It's so awesome to be a part of something that is successful not because there's a famous person in it or because it's a revival of something, but because it's so fresh and original.

Not everybody's a baseball fan.

I can't be compared to Pele. I need to do so much more to be compared to Pele. Pele is fantastic. And he's unique.

It's not what color you are or how you fare with fans, it's who you are and what personality you have.

My last name's kind of interesting - Farmer. I don't really think it's interesting for the stage. I think Lynne kind of had a better ring to it.

Staten Island is set off completely by itself in its own world, and that's one of the fascinating things about it, dramatically.