Sameness Quotes - Page 6

• There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.

  John Cheever

  Alcohol, Metaphor, Terrible

  John Cheever (1989). “The Letters of John Cheever”, Touchstone Books

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• Philip Glass, like [Virginia] Woolf, is more interested in that which continues than he is in that which begins, climaxes, and ends... Glass and Woolf have both broken out of the traditional realm of the story, whether literary or musical, in favor of something more meditative, less neatly delineated, and more true to life. For me, Glass [finds] in three repeated notes something of [a] rapture of sameness.

  Michael Cunningham

  Glasses, Virginia, Broken

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You don't get new products and services out of sameness.

  Jane Jacobs

  New Products, Products

  Source: www.metropolismag.com

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• If you read many contemporary literary novels today, you may notice that regardless of the subject matter there's a 'sameness' about them, the way in which thoughts are expressed and ideas, conveyed, the sometimes dogmatic application of what are, at best, useful maxims such as, 'less is more', the narrative techniques utilised, even the same, irritating, stylistic devices scattered like pepper all over the pages.

  Suhayl Saadi

  Ideas, Technique, May

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I've realized that a lot of people come to me because of what's called identity. In the sense of "he's like me" - more like identification. Identity is one of those nonsense words: it's been used so much it doesn't mean anything. As individuals, we don't want to stay the same; identity means sameness, and we don't want to be the same, we want to keep changing, we want to grow, we want to become something else. We want to evolve. So when people come to me, it's about resonance - it goes back to that word.

  Vijay Iyer

  Mean, People, Identity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Both sameness and difference are issues for us. A sign of cultural homogenization is that languages are disappearing at an alarming rate. I am heartened by signs that some peoples are fighting back, e.g., the revitalization of the language of the Wampanoag tribe in Massachusetts. But if we reject essentialism about culture, we will be cautious about overgeneralizing about what homogenization is and to what degree it exists. If we think of cultures as dynamic, internally diverse and contested, we will be aware that what looks like homogenization may be deeper down this more complicated thing.

  David Wong

  Fighting, Thinking, Culture

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The demonization of Islam and immigrants shows that perception of difference remains one of our biggest problems, and maybe always will be for a species that began in small groups competing with other groups for resources. These apparently competing forces for sameness and difference sometimes even seem to be mutually reinforcing. The homogenizing force of globalization tends to make many people feel they are on the losing side, economically and culturally, and it is they who are most easily turned against those "others" who are demonized by demagogues.

  David Wong

  People, Perception, Islam

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Every time a militant Islamist terrorist shoots somebody up, what does Barack Obama do and the Democrats? They come out and they demand that there be no backlash against Muslims. So any time a police officer shoots a black suspect - without knowing why, without knowing the circumstances - why doesn't Obama stand up and warn against a backlash against cops? If we are to guard against backlash against Muslim shooters, where is the sameness?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Police, Black, Cop

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think people are looking for an alternative because in addition to there being sort of a myopic, lemming - like ants on a sugar cube mentality on this DNS attack story by many in the media, there's just this culture of sameness. Everybody sounds the same.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Thinking, People, Culture

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I never really liked the lyrics or the sameness of the music. It always seemed to have the same rhythm or whatever. But when it turned a little more rock, I kind of liked it. I like what Kid Rock did to country. I like all the modern, new stuff that's coming out, and it just so happens that my boyfriend is not a country player, but he was a rock musician.

  P. J. Soles

  Country, Kids, Player

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.

  Mark Twain

  Clothes, Arbitrary, Use

  Mark Twain (2002). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 6: 1874-1875”, p.660, Univ of California Press

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• Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish our sameness.

  Lewis Black

  Country, Unique, Protection

  Lewis Black, Hank Gallo (2005). “Nothing's Sacred”

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• And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.

  Emily Giffin

  Sometimes, Old Movie

  Emily Giffin (2015). “Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue”, p.248, St. Martin's Griffin

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• My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

  John Oliver Killens

  Fighting, Justice, Diversity

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