Quotes About Uniqueness

Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.

Don't try to be the next Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay, we already have those people. We want someone who is going to make their own mark on 'Food Network.'

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

Guggi not only gave me the name Bono; he gave everyone in his family new and surreal names.

Do not do that which others can do as well.

It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he were, it would be the end of him as a man. But if you can´t place him in a category, it means that at least a part of him is what a human being ought to be. He has risen above himself, he has a grain of immortality.

Master Timekeeper: Not everyone thinks so. Most people enjoy order. Harlequin: I don't, and most of the people I know don't. Master Timekeeper: That's not true. How do you think we caught you? Harlequin: I'm not interested. Master Timekeeper: A girl named pretty Alice told us who you were. Harlequin: That's a lie. Master Timekeeper: It's true. You unnerve her. She wants to belong, she wants to conform, I'm going to turn you off.

No one else in the entire world feels exactly what you feel.

She was one of the rare ones, so effortlessly herself, and the world loved her for it.

What Boo Rdley did might seem peculiar to us but it did not seem peculiar to him.

The only thing I'm afraid of about this country is that it's government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn't be worth living in. The only thing in America that is still unique in this tired world is that a man can go as far as his brains will take him or he can go to hell if he wants to, but it won't be that way much longer.

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

What makes us the most normal, said Reiko, is knowing that we're not normal.

Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.

Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.

We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.

You don't get it, do you? I said. "It's not a question of 'what then'. Some people get a kick out of reading railroad timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out of matchsticks. So what's wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?

She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But there was something in her face that was meant for me alone. Everytime we met, I took a good look at her. And loved what I saw.

That's wrong, she declared. Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down.

There's nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don't fit the stereotype yet.

The world follows its own course. Each possesses his own thoughts, each treads his own path. So it is with your mother, and so it is with your starling. As it is with everyone. The world follows its own course.

What's really important here, I whispered loudly to myself,is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have

You're you , you see, and nobody else. You are you, right?

No matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves.