When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.
~By Peter Straub ~
To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.
~By Jeff Goldblum ~
What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
~By Juan Goytisolo ~
I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.
~By Doris Roberts ~
There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.
~By John Doerr ~
I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.
~By Chris Evert ~
Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France.
~By Peter Mandelson ~
One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.
~By Charles Brenton Huggins ~
Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.
~By Gregg Easterbrook ~
My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
~By Arthur Ashe ~
Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat facing all the member states of the EU.
~By Steve Blake ~
As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
~By Abdolkarim Soroush ~
There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.
~By Lukas Foss ~
No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day.
~By Ronnie Spector ~
Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.
~By Jeb Bush ~
An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.
~By Robyn Hitchcock ~
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
~By Rem Koolhaas ~
That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project.
~By Alison Bechdel ~
Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.
~By Boris Trajkovski ~
From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.
~By Robert Casey ~
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.
~By Sachin Tendulkar ~
Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.
~By Mercedes Ruehl ~
Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.
~By Ron Chernow ~
Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.
~By Harry Hay ~
We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
~By A. B. Yehoshua ~
If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.
~By Bill Nelson ~
We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.
~By Samuel P. Huntington ~
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
~By Raymond Queneau ~
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
~By Carl Schurz ~
Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others.
~By David Soul ~
Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.
~By James Norman Hall ~
My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.
~By Liz Phair ~
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.
~By Alan Dundes ~
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 preceving you.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
~By A. R. Ammons ~
The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.
~By Richard Grant ~
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
You manifest based on who you are already - so you must own the identity of the dream in order to manifest it.
~By Joy Page ~
2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation.
~By Marco Rubio ~
Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.
~By Jean Charest ~
Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
~By Page McConnell ~
I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
~By Walter Salles ~
Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.
~By John McGahern ~
My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.
~By Jessica Hagedorn ~
You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
~By Fernando Flores ~
A people must have dignity and identity.
~By Andrew Goodman ~
It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity.
~By Jenny Shipley ~
When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.
~By Claire Danes ~
Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.
~By Russell M. Nelson ~
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
~By Louis Sullivan ~
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
~By James Baldwin ~
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
~By A. B. Yehoshua ~
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
~By Ulrich Beck ~
It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.
~By Dick Thornburgh ~
When you are in a band for a number of years you loose your identity in a way. You become a part of that band and then all of a sudden you are not part of that band. You are still the band without the other two members.
~By Greg Lake ~
Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.
~By Stanley Crouch ~
For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.
~By Joseph A. Schumpeter ~
Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.
~By Cyril Cusack ~
We all need a firm sense of identity.
~By Christopher Eccleston ~
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.
~By Paul Ricoeur ~
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
~By Sallust ~
A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.
~By Lucy Stone ~
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.
~By Roger Andrew Taylor ~
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
~By Abdolkarim Soroush ~
The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.
~By Slobodan Milosevic ~
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
~By Ralph Ellison ~
It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
~By Alex Kapranos ~
This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
~By Harold Brodkey ~
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.
~By Judith Butler ~
I threw myself into this artform because photography had given me a new sense of mission and identity.
~By Bob Anderson ~
The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
~By Samuel P. Huntington ~
You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.
~By Malcolm Wallop ~
I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.
~By Greta Scacchi ~
My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.
~By Lena Horne ~
Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming.
~By Brit Hume ~
I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.
~By Alan Hovhaness ~
Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
~By Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ~
Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.
~By Melissa Bean ~
Then a year would go by and I'd realize I love the acting too much and it is my identity and I don't know how to be anything but an actress. It's who and what I am, so I always come back.
~By Delta Burke ~
Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.
~By Jennifer Capriati ~
I'm Owen Hart and I have my own identity and my own style.
~By Owen Hart ~
If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
~By Abdolkarim Soroush ~
After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.
~By Mathias Rust ~
I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.
~By Billy Corgan ~
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity.
~By John Hume ~
The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.
~By Cyril Cusack ~
The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.
~By Gena Rowlands ~
I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.
~By Lisa Kudrow ~
It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.
~By Alex Grey ~
The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
~By George McGovern ~
A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots.
~By Luis Guzman ~
I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.
~By John Lone ~
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