Quotes About Uniqueness

There aren't many abbreviations of Frederica," I said. "It's not like Margaret where you can have half a dozen—Maggie, Margot, Madge, Peggie—

When one is unique, one knows it! And others share that opinion—

There is always an apple way of doing things.

That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.

Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.

None of it matters, these steps to look completely different, to be completely different. She's still her. She'll always be her.

The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.

Because a rebel is just a guy who doesn't have the good sense to go the same way the crowd is going, and the composure to act like that was his idea all along.

In other words, I did not—and still don't—have a completely personal, distinctive, way of looking at things.

IT IS QUITE ENOUGH IF A HUMAN BEING HAS BUT ONE FIELD WHERE HE OR SHE IS STRONG. IF A HUMAN BEING WERE STRONG IN EVERY FIELD, IT WOULDN'T BE NICE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, WOULD IT?

One master those arts for health in mind and body, for the ability to live one's life as courageously, uniquely, and energetically as one wishes!

When you try to be everything, you wind up being nothing.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi.

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot." [ Baffled at a Bookcase ( London Review of Books , Vol. 33 No. 15, 28 July 2011)]

I have come to realise that no one sees the world quite the way you do. Even with a great deal of shared experience there is always a shift of a few degrees in perspective, and no one's pain is ever the same as yours.

If poetry is a circus, then the Big Tent we're under has to have room for a lot of different freak shows.

All families are silly in their own way.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

Because when on a raw and frosty morning I get up at five o'clock and stand shivering my belly off on the stone floor and all the rest still have another hour to snooze before the bells go, I slink downstairs through all the corridors to the big outside door with a permit running-card in my fist, I feel like the first and last man in the world, both at once, if you can believe what I'm trying to say.

I'm afraid you'll have to take up art. Art is the only work open to people who can't get along with others and still want to be special.

Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.

Believe me, this will help. When everything seems like it couldn't get any worse, you'll always be able to tell yourself: I did this one brilliant thing, this one brilliant thing that no one else has ever or will ever do. And that makes me special.

In rugby I think it is good to have a bit of a persona, a bit of a character because we are one of the last things that isn't necessarily controlled.

I got a different persona than a lot of these other guys.