Outsiders Quotes

I was a complete outsider in high school.

— Karen O

Writers tend to feel like outsiders.

— Jesse Armstrong

... love is banality to all outsiders.

— Mae West

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

— Marilyn Manson

Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.

— S. E. Hinton

I got born in the wrong family.

— Helen Cresswell

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

— Thom Mayne

I think all good art is outsider art.

— Scott McClanahan

I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers.

— Karen Russell

People care more about outsiders' approval than their own happiness nowadays.

— Anonymous

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.

— Siobhan Fahey

Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

— Robert Henri

A lot of the characters I gravitate towards feel like outsiders.

— David Harbour

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

— Gretl Braun

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

— Ethel Waters

I sadly never got to my prom. I was shooting 'The Outsiders.'

— Rob Lowe

For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to…

— Olive Schreiner

Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of…

— Anna Deavere Smith

My natural state is an outsider. I've always felt outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group.

— Michael Burry

I've always felt kind of like an outsider, even when I was very successful back in the old days. Even then. I…

— Nick Lowe

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life…

— James Salter

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

— Christina Stead

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

— Anne Rice

I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate…

— Lasse Hallstrom

For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those…

— Anonymous

You've gotta be an outsider a little bit to shake yourself loose from the mill, the "machine." In order to even cut…

— El-P

Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even…

— Scott Kahn

Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can…

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

And I was very comfortable with this band even when we disagreed. It takes a long time to feel comfortable enough to…

— Edie Brickell

...I am an outsider, a lesbian, a shikse. The Jewish community is not my community. But as a Jew--as a Jew in…

— Irena Klepfisz

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

— Chuck Todd

'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists…

— S. E. Hinton

The tragedy is that in the name of resisting the internal deterioration of faith and the corruption of the world around them,…

— James Davison Hunter

I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself -…

— Nancy Mairs

Planning a wedding is hell. Things are said. Doors are slammed. Quarrels about the most inconsequential things--yellow tablecloths or white? hors d'oeuvres…

— Caitlin Flanagan

Most writers begin with accounts of their first home, their family, and the town, often from quite a hostile point of view-love/hate,…

— John Updike

“Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such…

— Audre Lorde

To describe Russian politics as "managed democracy" - and that's sometimes hard for outsiders to understand, because a lot of the forms…

— Anne Applebaum

Caesar [from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] was brought up with human beings and because of the drug he…

— Andy Serkis

Historically different groups find different things in each comics, as with *X-Men*. Gay readers find parallels to living a closeted lifestyle or…

— Tom Brevoort