Maureen Johnson Quotes

There are no normal people, there are just different kinds of weird.

There's no such thing as equality. No two people are the same. You will not have the same clothes.

People are too complicated to have simple labels.

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

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he.

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.

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

Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.

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.

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

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

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

I just feel like no one is the same.

Sometimes people go off in a slightly different direction of wanting to be different, of wanting to be special, of wanting to be more, and I think that those people are often - not always, but often - genuinely different in some way. Perhaps their gender orientation is not acceptable or popular, not the norm. Or, their physical design is literally, in some way, setting them apart. Or, in many cases, they feel the burden of their ordinariness so dreadfully that they strive to find some way of being unique. I think that can be a very positive thing, but it also can be negative, destructive.

There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.

There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.

Who's to say what's better or worse anyway? Who's to even say what's normal or average? We're all different people and we're allowed to be different from on another. If someone ever says you're weird, say thank you. And then curtsy. No, don't curtsy. That might be too weird. Bow. And tip your imaginary hate. That'll show them.

I'm pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I'm completely extraordinary, and in other ways I'm completely weird and eccentric.

All men are different. And should do everything possible to continue to be so.

it's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than thesquarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

...in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other... People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.

We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine.

Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.

I don't think any of us are normal people.

And here I arrive at my point. The point is that everyone has a different dream. The point is that it is a grave mistake to assume your dream is in any way shared, that it’s a common dream. Not only is it not shared, not common, there is no reason to assume that other people don’t find you and your dream utterly revolting.