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Quotes About Rebellion

I didn't like school. Every day, it was a toss-up whether I'd go or skip.
~ Lee Marvin
You should have seen me in my Catholic school girl skirt with my knees knocking together.
~ Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
All of the punk-rock bands of the era would come in and play, and my job on Punk Rock Night was that I would go into the slam pit, and... I was 24 or 25, and I'd slam dance in the pit.
~ William Forsythe
Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.
~ Andrea Corr
I'd rather play in front of people who wouldn't listen to Slayer. That to me, is more like, 'Hey, listen to us.'
~ Jeff Hanneman
Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.
~ Zhang Ziyi
I might put a nicer pair of heels on and a cooler outfit, but I'm still that naughty girl who likes a slice of cheesecake on my day off.
~ Jessie J
Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
~ Mick Jagger
I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things - genre paintings, historical paintings - the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society.
~ Kara Walker
When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that. And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was.
~ Pete Wentz
In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.
~ Olivia Colman
I'm a product of the '60s and the '70s - slightly rebellious back then in college, not so much in high school, when I got to college I think I was. And I think a lot of where I'm at right now is rooted in a lot of hypocrisy that I recognized back then that I never wanted to be personally.
~ Joe Maddon
I like to slip out in the middle of the night and take my Lamborghini and drive it really fast on the highway.
~ Erika Jayne
I just became less rebellious with clothes, and today, I can slip into appropriate attire according to what the occasion requires, but off the red carpet, I am not that particular about what I wear, and comfort is my main priority.
~ Twinkle Khanna
The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.
~ Richard Neal
I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots.
~ Juliette Lewis
I take smack because I enjoy it. I enjoy all it makes me feel. I don't do it to be in with the in crowd. I can rock out with it.
~ Johnny Thunders
There's a small group of people always watching me to make sure I'm still offending.
~ Peter Saul
The Sex Pistols was a part of my life. Just a small part.
~ Steve Jones
Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.
~ Jamie Bamber
I was a smart kid, but I hated school.
~ Eminem
Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there's nothing they can do about it because they have no power.
~ Dav Pilkey
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
~ William S. Burroughs
Ever since I was little, I've always liked to smash things.
~ Wendy O. Williams