Outsider Quotes

204 Outsider quotes by 190 unique authors

It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in. — Asne Seierstad
I very easily decide in certain situations that I'm an outsider. That's just my own craziness. I think that I have sympathy for those characters… — Jonathan Coulton
You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. — Robert Frost
Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the… — Amy Grant
I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one… — Willem Dafoe
I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider.… — Zooey Deschanel
To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail. — Junot Diaz
Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider. — Jesse Eisenberg
A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's… — Kirk Hammett
I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always. — Joanne Harris
I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative. — Bill Hicks
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for… — Richard Hofstadter
I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was… — Anthony Hopkins
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
I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to. — Ang Lee
I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider… — Annie Lennox
In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and… — Michelle Malkin
As a kid I just felt like an outsider. — Marilyn Manson
There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more. — P.J. O'Rourke
I don't think I'm an outsider at all. — Christina Ricci

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