A. S. Byatt Quotes

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

One thing I realised was that everyone is different. You can't compare two human beings.

There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.

We are unique. Chimpanzees are unique. Dogs are unique. But we humans are just not as different as we used to think.

In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual....Physically and mentally, each one of us is unique. Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man's biological nature.

It has to be understood that the world doesn't exist with people who are exactly like us.

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

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.

If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary.

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.

The girl next door isn't necessarily blonde and blue-eyed anymore. So I don't feel like I need to morph into that all-American thing.

Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of bell curves, and pretty much everyone is on a tail of at least one of them. We may collect strange memorabilia or read esoteric books, hold unusual religious beliefs or wear odd-sized shoes, suffer rare diseases or enjoy obscure movies.

How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don't like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics.

We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

It's interesting to see how we are all uniquely different.

I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.

Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting!

We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone?

Me and my sisters all have such different body types.

It took me a long time to square with the fact that none of my experiences are typical - I'm not a typical American, but I'm also not a typical Muslim.

There are some people who fit into categories very well. But then there are a lot who don't.

Sometimes, I am also identified as a civil rights leader or a human rights activist. I would also like to be thought of as a complex, three-dimensional, flesh-and-blood human being with a rich storehouse of experiences, much like everyone else, yet unique in my own way, much like everyone else.

I'm against all of us looking homogenous, where there's only one kind of a template of a person.

I'm a snowflake. And so are you. Your children are snowflakes. And so are mine. And those who protest the loudest about not being snowflakes? I can see your six-fold ice crystals from here! Because every person, empirically, is unique.