Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ferdinand Mount

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

Fernando Pessoa

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Felix Adler

People may be said to resemble the pieces of a puzzle, each unique, yet each essential to bring out a complete picture.

Henry Miller

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

Cassandra Clare

It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique.

Frank Capra

Man is a unique individual. He can never be put in a system where he becomes just another notch. Another nail.

Christopher Alexander

Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality. Buildings were judged more by the way they looked in magazines than by the satisfaction people felt when using them.

Christopher Alexander

In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole - a whole which can be identified by everyone who is part of it.

Jet Li

While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.

Jeb Bush

Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.

Jeff Bezos

You want to look at what other companies are doing. It's very important not to be hermetically sealed. But you don't want to look at it as if, 'OK, we're going to copy that.' You want to look at it and say, 'That's very interesting. What can we be inspired to do as a result of that?' And then put your own unique twist on it.

Eric Church

Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.

Jasper Fforde

The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the chagrin of a lot of males, some of whom were still failing to make the grade at thirty-two.

Greg Ginn

As a label, you have to treat every group and every record as a unique entity. I think that that has been our success, rather than relying upon a fan base.

Gerald Edelman

Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.

Harry Connick, Jr.

You won't talk to anybody who breaks lyrics down more thoroughly. It's just a complete deconstruction, and when you start to rebuild, nobody has the capacity to do it like me. Which is not to say I'm better, it's just that there's a unique quality to everyone.

Jack Kornfield

Every individual has a unique contribution.

Irwin M. Jacobs

The hinge is distinctly different, so when you look at it carefully, you recognize that it is its own unique design.

Imelda Staunton

We're all unique as actors. To yourself, you are unique, you have to think 'I'm me, I'm not going to bunch myself with other people.' Agents and producers have to get you into a box, to accommodate their limited imaginations.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world

B. B. King

Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.

Bill Taylor

The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action - an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign - even as the rest of the world wonders why you're not marching in step with the status quo.

Bill Smith

Crystal Cruises has individually crafted each European cruise itinerary to provide a rich combination of destinations with more overnight stays and more time in ports. Whether taking a shorter seven-day jaunt or combining several unique cruises to create the ultimate European exploration, luxury travelers will enjoy the grandeur of Europe and the warmth and luxury of the Crystal experience.

Etgar Keret

Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.

Ernst Mayr

Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways.

Chris Martin

A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.

Gillian Jacobs

You're always looking to have a unique experience as an actor, and definitely, being punched by a puppet ranks as a singular experience in my career.

Jack White

I have very little interest in the bottom line or signing artists to help make the label profit. That's a lucky, unique position to be in, but it all comes out in the wash.

Jenny Lawson

There's so much shame involved in not being like everyone else. But I learned that the things that made me unique were good. Dealing with problems can be awful. But in the end I got positive results. I don't think I would have been a writer if I didn't have anxiety.

Ice Cube

Do not turn into just cookie-cutter producer, cookie-cutter this, but a producer that people say wow, when they do something it's great or just unique or whatever.

Ian MacKaye

I wouldn't characterize it as an 80s nostalgia thing. For me, at least. The Corcoran show was actually almost a reportage. The exhibit was, in many ways, pretty unique. It was one of the first pieces about DC culture that doesn't include some marble building or the Kennedy Center.

William James

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

One of the most important milestones we'll all hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our unique point of view and realize how priceless it is.