Quotes About Uniqueness

A Great Answer is essentially a new answer. It

So much, it would seem, for the music that would eventually be regarded as the first truly American art form.

My granddad used to say, "If everybody liked the same thing, they'd all be after your grandma."

It's hard to be a bright light in a dim world.

Are you a princess? I said & she said I'm much more than a princess, but you don't have a name for it yet here on earth.

When I first discovered the moon, he said, I gave it a different name. But everyone kept calling it the moon. The real name never caught on.

You're the strangest person I ever met, she said & I said you too & we decided we'd know each other a long time.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

Still," said Ramse. "You're not much. You're what you are and we love you for it, but you're not much.

Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.

They, society, hate you because they don't want your help. You remind them of how weak willed and sheep like they are. How gleeful they are, deep down, to be ordinary. They don't want heroes. They don't want special people around them. Because if there are special people and they aren't one of them - well who wants that? Who wants a constant reminder that they aren't even trying to be special?

What appalled Schiller about these libraries was that they featured nothing off the beaten track: no tattered paperbacks; no evidence of distinctive personal interests; no tokens of long intellectual detours passionately explored.

You have an unfinished quality that in a person of your age is an achievement.

Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.

We are all cabinets of wonders.

Each wave was the only wave.

To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.

You'll Never See It My Way, Because You're Not Me!

The truth is that the world is full of bumblers exactly like you, and to think that you're special is just one more thing you've bumbled.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

When you're growing up, it takes a long time for you to realize that there's something different about you. On one level, you know there's something strange, but on another, yourself is the only thing you ever knew.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

Not all gays respond to the same stuff. Would Alexander the Great have loved Auntie Mame?