Outsiders Quotes

The English were infuriating. Everything was designed to put an outsider at a disadvantage. If you had to ask, you didn't belong.

I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.

I'd be the outsider gal who undergoes a makeover in the end [in the 'The Breakfast Club' ].

Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders

The one [thing about Amish life] that I'm always going to miss is the closeness that I've had with my family. I still talk to them, but I'm an outsider.

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.

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

I've always felt quite like an outsider. I don't really belong in the mainstream, and I quite like that.

I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

The notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore. It's about standing there, holding something up. It's not pulling away.

It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.

Outsider means "I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain."

Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.

An outsider can see some things much better.

Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.

The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is not human, so he's always on the margins.

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

I no longer represent any organized religion. I'm not Catholic. I'm not Christian. I'm saying this because I have to be an outsider for Christ.

I love playing outsiders, I always do.

It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.

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.

I like the brand Band of Outsiders. Their suits are cut really slim, for smaller framed gentlemen.

I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No.

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.

A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders.

Im not an American but I have always had the outsiders respect for the American people and the American way.

I don't think I'm an outsider at all.

Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.

I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique view from the border.

It seems to me that this debate, whether Islam is a religion of peace or not, really, it's irrelevant for outsiders. It's for Muslims to decide whether it's a religion of peace or not.

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.

The outsider is not sure who he is. He has found an “I”, but it is not his true “I”.’ His main business is to find his way back to himself.

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.

If you're the creative, artsy one who goes off to study painting or filmmaking, you're often seen as an outsider partly because traditionally, it has never been seen as a way to have a career.

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.

My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity.

So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

I was an insurgent. I was, you know, an outsider. And I'm not sure that I'm not better being an outsider.

The real freedom comes to us when we can learn to go inside and connect with that voice. Then, we're not relying on outsiders.

There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner.

I'd hope to reach any kid who feels apart from the group - those who seem to be outsiders, who feel different. Kids who want to reach their parents often don't know how to do so.

I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.

It wasn't easy for me to start in Bollywood because I was an outsider.

I think a lot of us go through a period where we feel like outsiders, and deal with that by wishing we were insiders. So that was the emotional core of American Born Chinese.

What [Adolf Hitler] felt deep inside he wasn't going to show to outsiders.

I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president.

When you arrive in China nowadays, one of the first things you note is the emphasis placed on you, a non-Chinese person, being an outsider.