Outsiders famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
-- Alan Cumming -
Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.
-- Alexis De Veaux -
Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.
-- Ally Carter -
If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.
-- Anderson Cooper -
The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.
-- Andy Stanley -
I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.
-- Ang Lee -
It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.
-- Asne Seierstad -
Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.
-- Atul Gawande -
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
-- Baz Luhrmann -
As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
-- Ben Mendelsohn -
I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.
-- Bill Hicks -
Even if I did speak Irish, I’d always be considered an outsider here, wouldn’t I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won’t it? The private core will always be ...hermetic, won’t it?
-- Brian Friel -
Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.
-- Brian Molko -
Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
-- Carlisle Floyd -
A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders.
-- Carroll Quigley -
I've always been interested in the outsider.
-- Charles de Lint -
It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.
-- Chloe Sevigny -
I've been an outsider all my life - I don't care.
-- Chloe Sevigny -
Im not an American but I have always had the outsiders respect for the American people and the American way.
-- Christiane Amanpour -
The great glory of travel, to me, is not just what I see that's new to me in countries visited, but that in almost every one of them I change from an outsider looking in to an insider looking out.
-- Clara E. Laughlin -
The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market for almost no profit.
-- Clayton Christensen -
I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.
-- Colin Wilson -
Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.
-- Colin Wilson -
What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
But you're like me,†he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.
-- Darren Shan -
I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.
-- David LaChapelle -
My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity.
-- David Lindsay-Abaire -
Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.
-- Diane Abbott -
Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.
-- Elia Kazan -
It wasn't easy for me to start in Bollywood because I was an outsider.
-- Esha Gupta -
I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.
-- Ethel Waters -
I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.
-- Ethel Waters -
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
-- H. P. Lovecraft -
Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it.
-- Henry Adams -
I'm a stranger wherever I go, but I'm happy.
-- Hualing Nieh Engle -
We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely
-- Hugo Weaving -
The one who tried too hard, the outsider, the oddball. Yeah, that was me.
-- Idina Menzel -
I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.
-- Isaac Marion -
The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.
-- Jackie Kennedy -
We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance, that, like virtually every public construct, is a legacy of a primordial and tribal mentality.
-- Jamake Highwater -
In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.
-- James Salter -
Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.
-- Jenny Holzer -
I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.
-- Jeremy Paxman -
Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider.
-- Jesse Eisenberg -
You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.
-- Jim Hightower -
I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.
-- Jimmy Connors -
It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.
-- John Oliver -
I was always an outsider, proud of being an outsider. I always reveled in the outsiders.
-- John Zorn -
I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.
-- Jon Heder -
Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable.
-- Jonathan Zittrain -
It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
-- Katarina Witt -
I don't feel the pressure by outsiders. I'm not someone who's easily influenced by the public.
-- Khloe Kardashian -
It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from that culture.
-- Kim Chernin -
I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.
-- Kristen Johnston -
Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her new masters to avoid being rejected or, in more dire cases, punished. Then there would be the phase where she would have to sharpen her senses in order to see and hear as acutely as possible so that she could assimilate quickly all the new customs and the words most frequently used by the group she was to become a part of--so that finally, she would be judged on her own merits.
-- Laura Esquivel -
I feel like my friends are in a cult because we're like, 'No outsiders!
-- Leighton Meester -
I always felt like something of an outsider. But I identified with people up on the screen. That made me feel like I wanted to be up on the screen too. I felt like eventually I would get there.
-- Luke Perry -
I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.
-- Mark E. Smith -
Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.
-- Martha Gellhorn -
Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.
-- Matt Drudge -
It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.
-- Max Weber -
When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.
-- Meg Cabot -
I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.
-- Michael Arad -
When a society is criticised by outsiders, its members wince but shrug their shoulders. 'What you can expect from strangers?' is the feeling. When the attack comes from within, no such indulgence is shown. 'He was one of us,' runs the refrain.
-- Michela Wrong -
I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.
-- Mika -
Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
-- Mika -
I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.
-- Monica Ali -
What we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something quite different.
-- Nick Cave -
Later in life, suddenly, if you're an outsider, it's something to be celebrated, I think, rather than getting on people's nerves.
-- Nick Lowe -
I've always felt kind of like an outsider, even when I was very successful back in the old days. Even then. I kind of enjoyed it, really.
-- Nick Lowe -
I've always felt quite like an outsider. I don't really belong in the mainstream, and I quite like that.
-- Nick Lowe -
The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.
-- Okakura Kakuzo -
For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.
-- Olive Schreiner -
In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.
-- Oscar Handlin -
An outsider's point of view is always handy.
-- Pat Oliphant -
Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation.
-- Paula Gunn Allen -
Im not a celebrity. I dont take myself too seriously. I know where I stand in the food chain. And no matter how much of an insider I ever become or am, Ill still always be an outsider.
-- Perez Hilton -
I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider.
-- Peter Doig -
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
-- Phyllis Bottome -
I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider.
-- Robert Crumb -
I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess.
-- Robert Downey, Jr. -
To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.
-- Roberto Clemente -
You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.
-- S. E. Hinton -
I think that The Outsiders was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
-- S. E. Hinton -
I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
-- Sade Adu -
Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in well anywhere else.
-- Sarah Thornton -
I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.
-- Siobhan Fahey -
We have the ability to craft a life where we are completely fulfilled. We think it is dependent on outsiders, and to some extent it is, but it is much more dependent on the attitude we bring to life.
-- Srikumar Rao -
From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy; we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position; or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider.
-- T. S. Eliot
