Indentity Quotes & Sayings

One of the things I find really hard and view as a massive drag ... is that I'm losing my ability to be completely anonymous. — Alexander Karp

I would never want to force you to do something you don't want to do, I don't ever want to take something from you that you don't want to give me. — Bella Andre

When the two become the one
And the inside outside, the outside in
So that the male be not male nor the female female
Then will you see me. — Wesley Stace

[Listening to a song] one could experience a freedom from one's physical body, and from one's social body - the mask you wore to go about in public among those who thought they knew you, an unchosen mask of nervousness and tradition, the mask that, when owrn too long, makes the face behind it shrivel up and rot away. For some, a spinning record opened up the possibility that one might say anything, in any voice, with any face, the singer's mask now a sign of mystery. — Greil Marcus

Because we imagine that we are what humanity was divinely destined to become, we assume that our prehistoric ancestors were trying to be us, but just lacked the tools and techniques to succeed. We invest our ancestors with our own predelictions in what seem to us primitive and unevolved forms. As an example of all this, we take it for granted that our religions represent humanity's ultimate and highest spiritual development and expect to find among our ancestors only crude, fumbling harbingers of these religions. We certainly don't expect to find robust, fully developed religions whose expressions are entirely different from ours. — Daniel Quinn

There is, however, no universal recipe for scientific advance. It is a matter of groping forward into terra incognita of the outer world by means of methods which should be adapted to the circumstances. — Reinout Willem Van Bemmelen

Life can paralyze us, freeze us into statues if we think about things too long. — Noah Hawley

The fear created by commercial experts may not quite rival the fear created by terrorists like the Ku Klux Klan, but the principle is the same. — Steven D. Levitt