Quotes About Distinctiveness

Each man in his way is a treasure.

Ever think of introducing yourself? Y.T. says. Nah, he says, people always forget names. You can just think of me as that one guy, y'know?

if everything you have learned is what everyone else knows, no one will ever beat a path to your door.

Yet she had continued to try not only to teach but to befriend those happy singing children, whose charm and distinctiveness the school was so surely ready to destroy.

Everyone likes different things. Not everyone's the same. Not everyone runs their mouth. Not everyone can fight.

I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.

I have my own thing going on; I don't want to imitate anyone else.

I always try to make each character my own.

I don't want people reading my books just because they're horror or mysteries. I want them to read them because they're Joe Lansdale books.

The reason I know I'm different to other people is I'm awake in the night, like all mythical creatures.

My name is Kendall. Kendall Jenner. I am not a Kardashian.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.

Man, I have so many names that everybody calls me something different. Some people call me Drew, some people call me Mayer, some people call me Haircut.

There are writers for whom names mean nothing; everybody could be called John and Elizabeth, and the writing would be just as good. A name, of course, is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away.

I've known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird.

Everyone is special in there own way, Mitya, she said softly

Nonetheless, there are in all periods people who feel themselves in some fashion to be *apart*.

I will never be like ordinary people. If I must be different, then let me keep that which sets me apart.

To be a devout Muslim was always to have distinctive things to do; it was to be guided constantly by rules; it was to live in a fever of the faith and always to be aware of the distinctiveness of the faith.

Everything that lives is unique. It is unimaginable that two people, or two briar-roses, should be identical . . . If you attempt to erase the peculiarities and individuality of life by violence, then life itself must suffocate.

Everything that lives is unique. It is unimaginable that two people, or two briar-roses, should be identical . . . If you attempt to erase the peculiarities and individuality of life by violence, then life itself must suffocate.

Each scream is as different as each Red Boy. Different and the same.

One is you, two is me, three is her, four is she!

It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique.