quote: individuality

  • Most people are other people.  Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. – Oscar Wilde

  • The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. – Alan Ashley-Pitt

  • Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do…

  • All my life I wanted to be someone. I guess I should have been more specific. – Jane Wagner

  • He who marches joyfully in rank and file has already earned my contempt. A large brain has been wasted on this individual, since for him, a spinal cord would suffice. – Albert Einstein

  • To be nobody but yourself when the whole world is trying its best night and day to make you everybody else is to fight the hardest battle any human being will ever fight. – E. E. Cummings

  • Always remember, you’re unique, just like everyone else. – Unknown

  • I wear makeup and dress this way because I think it makes me look better. I am not doing it to get people to stare at me. If I wanted to do that I could just put a pot on my head, wear a wedding dress, and run screaming down the street. – Boy George

  • Cloning just finished what the Gap started. – Colin Quinn

  • To be one’s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. – Irving Wallace

  • I like messy people; people who don’t fit in a box or stay between the lines, but whose integrity is greater than any rule book and whose loyalty is stronger than blood. – Jim Wern

  • When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I’m labeled senile. – George Burns