Top 348 Distinctive Quotes & Sayings

So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

Brass has a very distinctive sound. It's delicate but powerful, but it's also melancholic and plaintive.

An absolutely different and distinctive character.

The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.

Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.

I guess I'm very distinctive. I didn't realize how distinctive my voice is, the cadence of it, the slight rasp to it, how I walk, my little laugh that I do all the time.

Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.

My music is not only different but distinctive.

I'm looking for voices that are distinctive. That's the most important thing to me. I mean, obviously they have to be able to sing.

If I try to think objectively about myself and my work, I would say I want to be intuitive and distinctive.

Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.

Hair is very, very distinctive. I started that with that boxing movie I did, The Great White Hype. The director wanted me to look like Don King, and everybody knew who Don King was. But I didn't want to be Don King. I wanted the man to be Rev. Fred Sultan, so I decided to make him look like Julius Caesar. And from that point on, I just decided, I had this great wig-maker, so I just found hairstyles that I felt would be distinctive for every character. Like an adventure.

Of all the principles which constitute Liberal Democracy, internationalism is the clearest, the most distinctive, and the one with the longest history.

I've never had a stylist. My style is very distinctive from where I am from in Puerto Rico: a housing project in Carolina.

I didn't want a ghost writer. I've got such a distinctive voice, people would smell a rat, I think.

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

There is something distinctive about living in New York; over eight million other people are doing it.

The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism.

.. you've got to be original, or there will be nothing distinctive or interesting about your playing

Nobody in Big Bang receives vocal lessons anymore. We're impossible to teach because we already have very distinctive colors.

An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is rather primarily a lived and historically changing set of distinctive social practices. It is in these practices that 'content' is generated, debated, and transformed via certain distinctive ways of thinking, talking, valuing, acting, and, often, writing and reading.

Attempts are found in domains of human performance, such as sports, games, artistic domains, professional domains like medicine and the law, and so on. These feature distinctive aims, and corresponding competences. Archery, with its distinctive arrows and targets, divides into subdomains. Thus, competitive archery differs importantly from archery hunting.

I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.

Avoid committees and consensus in developing big, distinctive business model advantages. Individuals have big, distinctive ideas; committees and consensus turn big, distinctive ideas into mundane ideas.

There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.

Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.

'Black Hawk Down' has such distinctive visual aplomb that its jingoism starts to feel like part of its atmosphere.

I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.

To this day, H.R. Giger's work remains distinctive in every sense. He is frighteningly unique.

We learn a lot, and each museum ends up having its own distinctive character and personality.

The Stockholm street style is distinctive, with ensembles that exemplify the city's understated elegance.

All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.

My signature line of clothing for Satya Paul will showcase a distinctive aspect of my own personal style.

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.

And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.

The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.

You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

I consider my selfbeing ... that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man.

I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.

A great trademark is appropriate, dynamic, distinctive, memorable and unique.

My character Preet in 'Fanaah' had a very distinctive appearance: loud make-up and dramatic clothes.

It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.

I love people who have distinctive, unique personalities who are not in assembly lines and have something to offer.

There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans

There's a guy in the audience with a distinctive laugh. I hope that guy is miked. The only problem with having a distinctive laugh is I know exactly when that guy isn't laughing. "Oh, distinctive laugh doesn't think that joke was funny!"

Men of action usually win - that is one of their distinctive features.

When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places.

If you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone.

In the 1930s, anyone of any sophisticated status owned a cocktail shaker. Distinctive ones are easy to find.