Distinctive Character Quotes

Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?

There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.

She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique.

I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.

Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies? That meddling ape imitation, as soon as we come to years of indiscretion, (so let me speak,) snatches the pen, and blots out nature's mark of separation, cancels her kind intention, destroys all mental individuality. The lettered world no longer consists of singulars: it is a medley, a mass; and a hundred books, at bottom, are but one.

And then certainly, whatsoever you do - your character, your behaviour - is yours, authentically yours. It has your signature on it. Then you are not a carbon copy, you are original. The Zen people call it finding the original face.

the mad have a grace all their own

Every restaurant needs to have a point of view.

Everybody has their own style.

What for others is style, for me is soul.

Being a purple van man means I have my own perspective on things.

Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

I just like ladies who have class... just be yourself and let your personality shine and let your individuality show. To me, that's sexier. A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion

Quentin Tarantino was talking about Ordell a little bit, and I was like, "I'm sure Ordell is one of those people who thought Superfly was the greatest movie ever made." So he cuts his hair and straightens it, but he never has enough money to maintain it perfectly. So it's kind of nappy around the edges, straight and kind of puffed up. That's why he'd always keep it in a ponytail or a braid. We were just having fun and creating a distinctive character.

Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

You almost have to force yourself to stay in a vacuum to become different - if you really want to be different.

Apart from differentiating our spaces with design, we also look for buildings that have distinctive character. We make sure every seat is a good one.

Don't expect anything ordinary from me, i'm weird, and i like myself as i am

I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.'

In anything you do, it's important to have your own personality there.

An absolutely different and distinctive character.

I'm Owen Hart and I have my own identity and my own style.

the personality of St. John's, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry.

My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids.

We're all individuals. Lee Raymond is Lee Raymond. He has his style. I am Rex Tillerson, and I have my style.