Quotes by Identity Identity can be so gelatinous sometimes. Neil Gaiman identitysometimes We have taken a physical identity so that we may express our divine identity. And every moment in our life provides us with an opportunity to do that. Neale Donald Walsch takenidentityopportunity Who you are, where you've been and what you've done is all up here, captured and preserved in your memories. If you lost that - the story of your own origins - you'd lose your identity, your sense of self. Neil deGrasse Tyson identityselfmemories Also, where does your identity come from? Your memory, of course. Neil deGrasse Tyson identitydoememories The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity. Nick Joaquín identityaskingtoday Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment. Nick Joaquín identitygoneblood Your voice is your identity. If you don't use it- you're halfway to Asphodel already. Nico voiceidentityuse Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form--no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing... The body, sluggish, aged , cold--the embers left from early fires, ...shall duly flame again Nicholas Sparks flamesidentityfire As soon as you Botox your smile lines away, you lose part of your identity. Nigel Barker botoxyour-smileidentity With every character, you alter, you can’t be attached to your own identity. Nicole Kidman identitycharacter I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are perceiving you. Nicole Kidman actingidentitypeople She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't. Nikki Giovanni identityknows The most annoying thing I found was all the people pretending to be me on MySpace and Facebook. I'm not a member of either, but apparently there is an 'official' Nikki Sanderson MySpace page, complete with rants about how terrible identity fraud is, which is ironic. Nikki Sanderson ironicidentitypeople In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the great creators have foreseen this turning-point. Today, in the depths of culture itself and in all its separate spheres, this crisis of creativity is ripening. Nikolai Berdyaev creativitydepthidentity We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself. Nikki Giovanni groupsblackidentity I think that one not only has to make demands on the established group, but one also has to make demands on the outsider group. One has to make clear: if you want to leave, please do so. But if you want to stay here, a degree of accommodation to the Dutch outlook, Dutch manners, and a degree of identification with the Netherlands will be expected of you. There is no reason why there cannot be Dutch Turks or Dutch Moroccans. But one can expect from them a degree of identification, some change of their own social identity. Norbert Elias outsidersidentitythinking This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature. Northrop Frye identitylossthinking It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed by the question "Who am I?" than by some such riddle as "Where is here? Northrop Frye importantproblemidentity A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual to restore, replace or compensate for and to preserve its identity, however strange the means may be. Oliver Sacks identitylossmean The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity. Oliver Sacks identitypeoplepast«3738394041424344454647»
