Quotes About Divergence

What seems obvious to one person wouldn't occur to another. Your perspective is hard coded into the work that you create.

All of my friends are oddities.

To each his own. You like what you like. If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.

I don't like the same old thing all the time.

Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with.

There's nothing that everyone likes in the world. People have different opinions. It's just the way of living. I know that there will be differences.

the one consistent thing I have found is that there really is no normal when it comes to women.

We all arrive by different streets, by unequal languages, at Silence.

It's called Head On," Winston offered, unprompted. "Ninety-nine wolves racing blindly into a wall to symbolize a herd mentality, a lack of courage in diverging from the norm.

cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety")

She soon reached a point when she could not sit at the table with him and listen to his misbegotten notions and morality with its mistaken examples.

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

No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.

Let me give you a piece of advice: Leo Tolstoy is not the only human being on this planet. Yet all I ever hear you talking about is Leo Tolstoy . . . (tr Benjamin Sher)

The second party was directly opposed to the first; one extreme, as always happens, was met by representatives of the other.

The shades of gender in her voice were intricate, like mine.

When I was in high school in America, I didn't see anyone who looked like me - hardly ever. I just thought that was normal because you don't know any better. So I used to idolize so many other people, like Sarah Michelle Gellar on 'Buffy.'

I think the only universal thing is one individual. If you talk about a country or a nation or a culture, it's so vague. I mean what is a nation? A nation is full of nice and bad and long and tall and short and thin people. It's not like everybody is the same.

I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married a fat man and the other stayed here.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently

Hay quien se cría en una colina y quien se cría en el valle. La mayoria lo hace en el llano. Yo vine a la vida inclinada, y así es como he vivido desde entonces.

Je suis seul au milieu de ces voix joyeuses et raisonnables. Tous ces types passent leur temps à s'expliquer, à reconnaître avec bonheur qu'ils sont du même avis. Quelle importance ils attachent, mon Dieu, à penser tous ensemble les mêmes choses.

My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.

I like to combine different aspects in my work, to cover different areas, but I do see them as being separate.