Quotes About Uniqueness

Out of the whirling womb of time come millions of men and their feet crowd the earth and they cut one another's throats for room to stand and among them all are not two thumbs alike.

Shall the squid have praise or blame for being a squid? Shall the bird have compliments for being born with wings?

And of those responding neurons, 51 fired in response to only a single person or thing. One neuron responded only to Halle Berry, for example. Amazingly, the "Halle Berry" neuron responded to any picture of her, including one in which she was dressed as the masked Catwoman. Even the name Halle Berry triggered that neuron, which was silent at the sight of other actresses or their names.

Each man is different. Each man must follow his own path. Each man is the same. Each man must follow his own path.

Alicia Gris sees what the rest don't see. Her mind works differently from the rest. Where everyone else sees a locked door, she sees a key. Where others lose track, she picks up the trail. It's a gift, one could say. And the best thing is that no one sees her coming.

En el colegio dicen que soy un poco raro [...] -Pues es una suerte. Empiece a preocuparse el día que le digan que es usted normal.

Wariatem jest ten, kto ma si? za ca?kowicie normalnego, a za nienormalnych uwa?a ca?? reszt?.

Solucionados el tema e la alimentación y la vivienda, la primera necesidad que se plantea el ser humano es la búsqueda de motivos y recursos con los que sentirse diferente y superior a sus semejantes.

That's your problem. You try to be like everyone else. Everyone is unique here. They won't like you unless you be your own person.

Either we're all ordinary, or else none of us is ordinary.

If you won't be you...who will?

I'm interesting, she thought. I'm unusual. But I'm not beautiful....

Barbies are warm and tan and always the same, thought Janie, but real people are not always the same.

What kind of woman am I? she asked. My kind. He grinned.

Grandpa, why am I like this?" he had asked. "If God made everyone just alike, the world would be a boring place, now wouldn't it?" Grandpa had answered.

voice, not Conway's. Abby

It's normal to dream about anything at all. It's not normal to dream someone else's dreams. -Arthur Mentis

People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. He did not seem quite human.

She belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world.

He was comparing you to the butterflies that you both adore and cherish, and he said you were special for the same reasons: you were rare, exotic and entirely you. He said you're beautiful exactly the way are now.

You are a circus act all of your own and I cannot help but be your audience.

People who believe that they are not interesting, usually are the most interesting of all.

You had heard of a caterpillar that couldn't turn into a butterfly. And you would like to examine how it would feel to be denied such a beautiful thing. You would like to know how it feels for the caterpillar to watch other caterpillars transform while all the time knowing he would never have that opportunity.

You can't replace people, Paul, you'll never be replaced, but you can replace roles.