Uniqueness Quotes

For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.

If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of width.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
Jean Paul Sartre

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
Carl Rogers

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
Noam Chomsky

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

I believe in being an innovator.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Jennifer Aniston

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.
Sitting Bull

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

I have a love interest in every one of my films - a gun.

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
E. E. Cummings

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.
Marcel Duchamp

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
Graham Greene

I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.
Hank Williams

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
G. H. Hardy

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
Allen Ginsberg

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
Allen Ginsberg

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.
Bill Hicks

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
Ralph Ellison

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

To hell with facts! We need stories.
Ken Kesey

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
Abbie Hoffman

My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.
Adam Sandler

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.
Martha Graham

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
Jose Marti

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
Leo Burnett

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
Homer

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.
Satchel Paige

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
Satchel Paige

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.
George Clooney

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness
Gilda Radner

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from.

Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso.
Clark Gable

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
Louis Armstrong

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
Cyrano de Bergerac

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
Diogenes

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.
Jerry Garcia

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
Henry Clay