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Identity Quotes
"WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over; I stand apart to hear-it never tires me. To you, your name also; Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?"
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"You may not be the smartest, richest or best looking person but you're probably not the dumbest, ugliest or poorest either."
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"I was born handsome and I will die handsome."
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"Carlyle! Not just another nameless entity."
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"Don't like me for what I am.Just like me for who I am."
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"Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult."
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"I have been thinking that the social moulds civilisation fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies...."
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"She was a restless soul. Born with black wings and a gypsy heart."
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"People said that I was crazy, but I wasn't.I was just different."
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"Tell us which ideas you promote and we will know which type of person you are."
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"My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York.Am I a troubled kid?Yeah. You could say that."
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"Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence."
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"We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of us."
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"Sometimes I did feel like I came from a different tribe. I was not like my outgoing, ironic dad or my tough-chick mom. And as if to seal the deal, instead of learning to play electric guitar, I'd gone and chosen the cello."
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"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."
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"She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist."
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"She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing her thoughts with any one, or having to decide whether the book was a good one or a bad one."
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"My friends think I'm outgoing, but I don't travel as much outside as I do from the inside."
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"All I know is I'm not a Marxist."
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"It was as natural and obvious to me as breathing. So I assumed that everyone else was doing it too. When I realized that everyone else was not doing it -- that they couldn't do it even if they tried -- I told myself, 'I'm different from other people, so the life I live will have to be different from theirs."
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"I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves."
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"You are my shaper and my world as well. It is done. No need to choose."
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"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
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"Your Skin is not a deprivation, your life is not a defeat, the fact that you call yourself black does not mean that your eyes, soul and brain are black try to whiten yourself. If they blackmail you, whitemail yourself.Don't allow people's opinion to pin you down. Build yourself above the standard of slavery."
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"A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave."
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"The simple truth is that the only real 'ex-gay' person is a dead gay person - and even then I am not too sure about the validity of that statement."
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"Coco Chanel is said to have said that a girl should be two things: who and what she is. I say a girl should do two things: what and who she wants."
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"A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation."
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"I hate that would. Straight. At the very least, those of us who are nonstraight should get to be called curvy. Or scenic. Actually, I like that: 'Do you think she's straight?' 'Oh no. She's scenic."
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"You are your mother's trueborn son of Lannister.""Am I?" the dwarf replied, sardonic. "Do tell my lord father. My mother died birthing me, and he's never been sure.""I don't even know who my mother was," Jon said. "Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs."And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king."
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"As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris."
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"Your trouble has been what old poets call Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing-the gold lion, the bearded bull-which breaks through hedges and scatters the little kingdom of your primness. . . . The male you could have escaped, for it exists only on the biological level. But the masculine none of us can escape. What is above and beyond all things is so masculine that we are all feminine in relation to it."
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"We are fighting now to save that endangered species-the individual."
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"I rebel, therefore I exist."
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