Michel de Montaigne Quotes

She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine.

Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.

If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect. We won't know what to fight for.

The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen

On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

I will know him by his eyes.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican.

Sometimes, I think I may be more recognizable because I'm character-looking.

Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.

When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.

People always are desperate to have others acknowledge that they are different.

People are not recognisable, but places have to be recognisable.

Equal doesn't mean identical.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

Even if I wore a hat and a wig, you can always tell it's me.

You can't escape your face.

I'm not really a comparison dude. Even when people say 'Big or Pac?,' because they're two totally different types of lyricists.

Everybody's funny-looking.

It's a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different.

I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.

Everybody's born to be different, that's the one thing that makes us the same.

But the English are different, and they don't know how to be other than different.