Quotes About Rebellion

Lets ignore our mothers' well-meant advice.

What? You don't want any boiled beef tongue? Ha-ha. Eat the fucking tongue. We are the parents, they said, and you are the child.

There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self conscience, so apparently moral...But I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous...more extravagant and bright. We are...raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.

In their opinion, writing was dangerous, like touching your privates or grimacing like a dingo.

Ho cominciato a disprezzare le convenzioni sociali, le pratiche religiose, il denaro. Trascrivevo poesie di Rimbaud e di Prévert, incollavo fotografie di James Dean sulla copertina dei quaderni, ascoltavo "Le mauvaise réputation" di Brassens, mi annoiavo. Vivevo la mia ribellione adolescenziale in maniera romantica, come se i miei genitori fossero stati borghesi. Mi identificavo con gli artisti incompresi.

How do you get a sweet little 80-year-old lady to say the F word? Get another sweet little 80-year-old lady to yell "BINGO!"

Thus ever to tyrants.

It was easy for people to be derisive about our music because they saw what we were doing as retro. But we were like barbarians trying to crash the gates of the bloated progressive rock that we despised.

For my senior prom, my father finally said I could go - as long as I was home by 9 P.M.! That was around the time that most people were heading out. When I was little I was so mad at them all the time. 'Why can't I do this?' 'Why are there so many rules?' But looking back now, my parents gave me the foundation to have so many choices in life.

I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.

I wrote 'Echo' a few months after moving out of my sister's apartment in Atlanta. I was 17 and just finished high school. I didn't go to prom and didn't walk the stage. I just dipped.

We weren't wearing shoes on a full-time basis until prom.

I've made it very clear to you all that I will never again fight for this promotion, the U.F. Circus. Fixed fights, and I can prove it!

I really don't care for the proper chef coat.

People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral.

I was like, 'I can't do grime. That's for kids.' - I was 20 at the time, and I thought I was a gangsta, a proper rude boy.

I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.

I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it.

The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word 'No.'

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

I'm like a one-woman protest machine.

Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so.

My dad's a hero in a lot of ways. He was a 1960s and 1970s hippie and a member of the protest crowd.

It has been pointed out to me, more than once, that for someone who chose a profession steeped in procedure and protocol, I had little use for either.