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Quotes About Uniqueness

It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose their appeal.
~ Katherine Dunn
I've conquered them. They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.
~ Katherine Dunn
You're different from everyone else. All the rules and emotions and obligations that guide most of us through life—they're invisible to us. They're natural, like breathing. But they're visible to you.
~ Kathleen Rooney
as if l was pitch black and everyone else, pastel
~ Kathy Acker
It's not my fault that the gray of everyone else's stories makes the color stand out.
~ Kathy Hepinstall
El tiempo pasó. Pero el tiempo se divide en muchas corrientes. Como en un rio, hay una corriente central rapida en algunos sectores y lenta, hasta inmóvil, en otros. El tiempo cósmico es igual para todos, pero el tiempo humano difiere con cada persona. El tiempo corre de la misma manera para todos los seres humanos; pero todo ser humano flota de distinta manera en el tiempo.
~ Kawabata Yasunari
or there, since few perfect examples
~ Kay Hooper
We are all, as Byron put it, differently organized.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
I think I hate Capaldi because deep down I suspect he may be right. That what he claims is true. That science has now proved beyond doubt there's nothing so unique about my daughter, nothing there our modern tools can't excavate, copy, transfer. That people have been living with one another all this time, centuries, loving and hating each other, and all on a mistaken premise. A kind of superstition we kept going while we didn't know better.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Since each of us was copied at some point from a normal person, there must be, for each of us, somewhere out there, a model getting on with his or her life.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
You believe in the human heart? I don't mean simply the organ, obviously. I'm speaking in a poetic sense. The human heart. Do you think there is such a thing? Something that makes each of us special and individual?
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
each of us special and individual? And if we just suppose that there is. Then don't you think, in order to truly learn Josie, you'd have to learn not just her mannerisms but what's deeply inside her? Wouldn't you have to learn her heart?
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Do you believe in the human heart? I don't mean simply the organ, obviously. I'm speaking in the poetic sense. The human heart. Do you think there is such a thing? Something that makes each of us special and individual?
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
the English landscape at its finest - such as I saw it this morning - possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations, however more superficially dramatic, inevitably fail to possess.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Mr Capaldi believed there was nothing special inside Josie that couldn't be continued. He told the Mother he'd searched and searched and found nothing like that. But I believe now he was searching in the wrong place. There was something very special, but it wasn't inside Josie.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
your use of color is more like, well, a pond on a summer's evening. You do beautiful things with color, Josie. Things no one else even thought about.' 'Mom. People's children's pictures always look that way to them. Something to do with the evolutionary process.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Do you believe in the human heart? Do you think there is such a thing? Something that makes each of us special and unique? And if we just suppose that there is. Then don't you think, in order to truly learn Josie, you'd have to learn not just her mannerisms but what's deeply inside her? Wouldn't you have to learn her heart?
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Veruješ li u ljudsko srce? Naravno, ne mislim na organ kao takav. Govorim u pesni?kom smislu. Ljudsko srce. Misliš li da tako nešto postoji? Nešto što svakog od nas ?ini posebnim i jedinstvenim?
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Deja que te pregunte esto: ¿crees en el corazón humano? No me refiero al órgano físico, claro está. Me refiero a su sentido poético. El corazón humano. ¿Crees que existe tal cosa? ¿Algo que hace que cada uno de nosotros seamos especiales e individuales?
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
We had one gun, one werewolf, one poltergeist, one supercharged spell-caster, one not-so-supercharged spell-caster, and one perfectly useless necromancer, though Liz was quick to remind me that she needed me to relay her words. - Chloe
~ Kelley Armstrong
Everyone's life is interesting, if it's different from your own.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Maya's point is that Hayley, Nicole, and Serena shared common characteristics, which probably means they're the same type, and it has something to do with singing and swimming." "And being pretty," Hayley said. "That's not a superpower," Sam muttered.
~ Kelley Armstrong
She shone like a bright strange star shining in those empty lifeless halls, I write.
~ Kelly Link
Only dead fish swim with the stream.
~ Ken Bruen