unique quotes

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

I want to be remembered as iconic and different.

I’m the only person you’ve ever met who has read Longfellow.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

I love nerdy, cute, quirky boys who don’t take themselves too seriously.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I’m the only one moving.

The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city’s biggest strength, and it is Toronto’s unique strength.

I always liked different things, rare things.

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don’t have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I’m making 22 minutes; I know there’s a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

I’ve had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

I have the ’77 Million Paintings‘ running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I’ll look up from what I’m doing and I think, ‚God, I’ve never seen anything like that before!‘ And that’s a real thrill.

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I’m gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her.

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

I do like Burial; he’s so curiously clumsy, you can’t help but be moved. It’s so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.