Outsider Quotes · Page 11

It's easy to gravitate toward something negative as opposed to something positive, especially if you're an outsider.

— Blake Judd

I feel like I've had this ability to infiltrate, as an outsider and an insider, different groups.

— Rostam Batmanglij

I think, to many people in the company, I am somewhat of an outsider.

— John L. Flannery

I was very, very quiet. I was always a loner, hardly spoke, and I was quite a nerd in school. So I…

— Shahzia Sikander

He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside.

— Joan Didion

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

— Esha Gupta

Sometimes, when our own natives make us sad then an outsider becomes the reason of our smile.

— Fadi

When you're the artsy, weirdo, introverted outsider growing up, you don't fit into your community.

— Stephen Karam

I'm creating art that can be healing. Art that can make you feel like you're not alone, like you're not an outsider.…

— Jamila Woods

I don't want to disregard any of the struggles others faced, but mine were different. I also gave auditions that never materialised…

— Rohit Saraf

I think that everyone who does music, and everyone who does art, or everyone who decides at a young age that they're…

— El-P

“He's not from here, that's the thing," Cub said. "Just because he's the outsider, he has no say? Should we not read…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I no longer represent any organized religion.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…

— Anne Rice

I think that part of being a good journalist, part of being an awake member of the world you're in, is to…

— Mark Leibovich

I immediately felt welcomed, whereas in Massachusetts, I'd grown up there but I felt like such an outsider. Within a week or…

— Adam Granduciel

For so long, I have been an outsider because of my size. And I think that fashion has always, in some way,…

— Ashley Graham

I was sort of like a kid in a candy store, realizing it was fun making beats without the perceived burden that…

— DJ Shadow

“Goods were arranged in glass cabinets as if they were ancient Egyptian artefacts. I was a contaminant, a fly in the gourmet…

— A.J. Reid

Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in…

— Chris Crutcher

“there are still times when the thief I started out to be feels more authentic to me than the priest I’ve been…

— Mary Doria Russell

“I refuse to share the thoughts of the ordinary. I am the outsider not because they expelled me but because I expelled…

— Mark Romel

“I was the outsider in Fernhall House, but they were all outsiders really. Outside society. Outside time. You hear people say that…

— Jonathan Lee

“I don't think that the despiritualised, dehumanised culture in which we live, the McDonalds and Disney culture, does our internal lives, our…

— Clive Barker

“Any scientist that wants to change the prevailing paradigm is automatically branded a heretic, apostate, infidel, blasphemer, maverick or lunatic, exactly as…

— Thomas Stark

“ He didn't seem to understand yet was that I didn't really care about the ways of Washington.”

— Elizabeth Warren

I'm a scrappy outsider from Boston, so didn't have a privileged background at all like many in business.

— Jeremy Strong

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

— Donald Trump

I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'

— Halima Aden

I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.

— Barry Unsworth

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

— Peter Doig

I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.

— Mika

As an outsider, it appears that celebrities lead such a glamorous life but once you are a part of it, you realise…

— Nidhhi Agerwal

Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

As an outsider, you don't think of Australia as being old-fashioned - it's only when you've been here for a period of…

— Boy George

I think a good comedian was probably bullied a little bit. Probably felt doughy and oblong and rhombus-shaped and strange and a…

— Pete Holmes

I want to say to younger women especially that it's OK to be an outsider. It's OK to admit to your rage.…

— Viv Albertine

“This man was different from all others; he was forbidden fruit, the outsider. Her mother had trained her well, but she had…

— Constance O'Banyon

“Outsider There you were, the outsider in the crowd. Around everyone else, you stood out. Your eyes sparkled like the stars in…

— Deanna Frances

I always had this crisis: where do I come from? I was never an insider, never an outsider; I was always in…

— Yasmine Hamdan

“Sometimes, it is necessary for me to step back from my emotions and my life. I need to be the outsider looking…

— Jaeda DeWalt