Quotes About Identity

I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It is actually a giant frog pretending to be a tuba.

The trouble with the rat race is even if you win, you're still a rat. —Lily Tomlin

Though few if any of the gamers had seen pictures of Romero, they figured he was the guy wearing the black T-shirt with the militaristic Doom logo on the front and the bold white words "Wrote It" on the back. The shirt was Romero's own modification. After id had printed up a bunch of promotional tees, he suggested they add the phrase "Wrote It" for their own. He even sent his mother a Doom shirt with the words "My Son Wrote It" on the back.

320 pounds of gamer meat

Melancholy persons are foreigners in their mother tongue. The dead language they speak foreshadows their suicide.

We live in an era when everyone wants to tell his or her story, but there is no real sense of what story means anymore.

Reading is a form of self-identification that works, paradoxically, by encouraging us to identify with others, an abstract process that changes us in the most concrete of ways.

Wait, Ed. Did you say she?" "You better believe it. Our hacker's a she!

have no idea who she was," Brandell said, "although I did recognize her from somewhere—I had the feeling that it was something bad. She was tattooed and pierced and all that crap and looked like a heavy rocker or goth or punk, plus she was as thin as hell.

That our enthusiasms and passions are an important part of our personality and if you take them away you remove something very fundamental.

To be alive, Professor Sharif, means not being completely consistent.

Oamenii vor s? fie accepta?i, s? fie competen?i ?i ajung s? fac? prostii inimaginabile din cauza asta.

Do you know what my rabbi says? That the mark of a man is his contradictions. We can long to be away and at home, both at the same time.

Of course! That was it! I didn't need a tattoo. What I needed was something a lot less expensive and considerably less painful. What I needed was a Playboy. Guys who are gay do not keep Playboy magazines in their bedrooms.

No you are not. You are much too young to be gay.

Oh, el anhelo payasesco de quienes no han sido amados tal cual son!

You never feel more American than when you leave America.

The actual inspirations for Lady Chanel were Samuel L. Jackson and "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert." As

To be human is often an endless tangle of invisible forces and confounding paradoxes, of being many things all at the same time.

If it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.

i have a friend request from some stranger on facebook and i delete it without looking at the profile because that doesn't seem natural. 'cause friendship should not be as easy as that. it's like people believe all you need to do is like the same bands in order to be soulmates. or books. omg... U like the outsiders 2... it's like we're the same person! no we're not. it's like we have the same english teacher. there's a difference.

Gabriela was in prison for Judaizing, but she recited the prayers of her tormentors. She had not even the comfort of the religion for which she was punished.

The Ptolemaic map defines people according to their food. The Elephantophagi, the Struthiophagi, the Ichthyophagi, and Anthropophagi. If we followed the same sort of classification our definition would be the drink, thus:—the tribe of stout-guzzlers, the roaring potheen-fuddlers, the whisky-fishoid-drinkers, the vin-ordinaire bibbers, the lager-beer-swillers, and an outlying tribe of the

Before dehumanizing a population, we set them apart as a "race." That is, a variety of people who are fundamentally different from "us." The folk notion of race is very much an artificial construction.