Quotes About Uniqueness

Language is unique in that there are no other animals with which we converse, no matter what language we are speaking. And yet the miracle of this research has been the realization that what is unique from one perspective may be constructed of mostly old parts from another.

You see, that's what's so odd, how everyone thinks they're normal and the truth is no one in the world is normal at all. Isn't that wonderful?

A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.

Eine Familie, die keine schwarzen Schafe hat, ist keine charakteristische Familie." ("A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.")

People who generalise about people are dismissed as superficial. It's only when you've known large numbers of people that you can spot the unusual ones—when you look at each one as if you'd never seen one before, they all look alike.

Well, I don't see any other ones around...

I wore all black because I myself am a pop of color.

I am large, I contain multitudes. —WALT WHITMAN

People underestimate the freckled.

Have you forgotten about our fox? The one who now had an eye for beauty, and an inclination to set it apart from other things . . .

While waiting for her to phone me at school I'd feel seconds bursting inside me and leaving clouds. That won't come again—it can't. I'll never have that with anyone else. I'll never even come close.

I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art.

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

I do think imperfection is underrated

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

Solo empezamos a ser imitables ahí donde dejamos de ser nosotros mismos. Quiero decir que solo de puede imitar de nuestros gestos aquello que tienen de mecánicamente uniforme y, por eso mismo, de extraño a nuestra viva personalidad. Imitar a alguien es extraer la parte de automatismo que este ha dejado introducirse en su persona.

las manos son aún más bellas cuando no imitan nada.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

What ought a man to be Well, my short answer is himself.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.

New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is.

Most surely all guys aren't same, and any democratic concept which strives to make men equal is handiest an attempt to block development