Quotes About Uniqueness

Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special.

I don't care to read about Garrison Keillor. We cover the same sort of territory, and I don't need to know anything more about him.

Well, we can't all be Terry Bradshaw.

When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

When you re the only one to do something it always gets done.

All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

Our people don't have one look, one background, one culture," says Erik. "The common thread is they are themselves. They are genuine.

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

What a waste of time it would be to insist that everyone develop each of the specialties we call upon to an equal level. We'd get bogged down in remedial training programs, trying to get the cornet players up to speed with the computer programmers, sacrificing the tends to be exceptional in so many individual situations in order to be average in all of them.

Every hundred feet the world changes, said Florita Almada. The idea that some places are the same as others is a lie. The world is a kind of tremor.

Marchand dreams that in one magical and endless night the rejected manuscripts make love every way possible with his abandoned manuscript: they sodomize it, rape it orally and genitally, come in its hair, on its body, in its ears, in its armpits, etc., but when morning comes, his manuscript hasn't been fertilized. It's sterile. In that sterility, Marchand believes, lies its uniqueness, its magnetism.

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

How strange to be loved simply for who I was.

You are different, Bee. It will make some parts of your life very difficult. But if you always fall back on your differences to explain everything you dislike about the world, you will fall into self-pity.

You are different, Bee. It will make some parts of your life very difficult. But if you always fall back on your differences to explain everything you dislike about the world, you will fall into self-pity." p. 293 Fitz to Bee

She was a dragon, not a mindless mud salamander.

Do you see how we're drinking out of lovely, uniquely decorated china cups? Mine is different from yours, but they're both fine china. We're not drinking our tea out of Styrofoam or throwaway paper cups. It's like that with you. You're not a Styrofoam or throwaway paper girl. God made you to be a lovely, uniquely designed, fine china cup. That's how He sees you, and that's how I see you.

The most important thing each of us can know is our unique gift and how to use it in the world. Individuality is cherished and nurtured, because, in order for the whole to flourish, each of us has to be strong in who we are and carry our gifts with conviction, so they can be shared with others.

The most important thing each of us can know is our unique gift and how to use it in the world

Individuality is cherished and nurtured

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

There's a lot more to you than meets the eye." "There's more to everyone than meets the eye," Clay said. "I hope you'll forgive me—

Be yourself

To us, she was like a rare bird that had escaped its cage and was roaming through a courtyard of common chickens.