Quotes About Rebellion

If I hear someone say something, and they're 100 per cent about it, then it's almost inevitable that I'll take the opposite view. I guess I feel at odds with things like society. Absolutism is always a trigger for me.

When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal.

When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.

When in college, I would hardly attend classes. In fact, we would go to other colleges and hang out there. Every six months, my friends and I would hit the roads and go to Goa. We weren't rich kids, and our trips were on shoestring budgets. But, we hardly cut down on the fun.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

I created 'Captain Underpants' when I was in the second grade. I was constantly getting in trouble for being the class clown, so my teacher sent me out into the hallway to punish me. It was there in the hall that I began drawing 'Captain Underpants'. Soon I was making my own comic books about him.

Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3 headed-dog because then no one would argue with me.

My mother was Catholic, my father not. I went to Catholic high school. Every form of education failed me. I was trouble.

Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy.

I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.

I've always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet.

Living in a small country town, there wasn't a whole lot to do so you find your own fun. I was always getting myself in trouble.

I grew up in a little town called Uckfield, and there's not much to do - so we used to fight a lot. I was never in serious trouble, but we used to have the local bobby round the house saying, 'Rory's been up to this again.'

I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble.

I had little problems during high school. It seemed like I was always getting into trouble in summer, going in and out of juvenile hall.

I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble.

I've always had trouble with authority.

I would love to get in trouble with the Catholic Church. I'm not religious myself, but my issue is with the organization. It's an organization of men - it's not about faith.

I was an attention seeker, always in trouble.

I don't think I gave my mom too much trouble as a teenager.

We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.

I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.

Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.