Quotes About Rebellion

The year I graduated from college was the year Richard Linklater released Slacker and Douglas Coupland published Generation X . A quarter-century later it's hard to recover a sense of how radical and powerful those works were at the time, but to me they felt authentically contemporary in a way that nothing else did.

Loosening his tie with one hand, Quentin stepped out into the cold clear winter air and flew.

For a punk Penny could be an unbelievable drag.

he'd learned the secret of a richer, more powerful adult rage. "It isn't how it was! It never will be again! They changed the rules on us, so as far as I'm concerned all bets are off." He cinched his belt tight. "If They apologized, if They showed

And if you tell him you saw me smoking, I will banish you to the lowest circle of hell. Which I've never been there, but if even half of what I hear is true it's almost as bad as Brooklyn." Eliot

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

Lactose intolerant milk?! KISS, MY, DICK!

let Him down. But what else is new? And if you don't like what I just said, tough. That's the God I believe in and that's

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

The Queen turned crimson with fury, and after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, began screaming, "Off with her head! Off with—"

"You are old, Father William," the young man said,"And your hair has become very white;And yet you incessantly stand on your head—Do you think, at your age, it is right?"

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Science, I repeat, produced many 'saints,' dedicating their lives with monastic devotion to their discipline-but no notable rebellious martyrs against the political establishment. Yet, as we shall note later, that alienation and renunciation are at last perhaps under way.

Each one of us, as long as life stirs in him, may play a part in extricating himself from the power system by asserting his primacy as a person in quiet acts of mental or physical withdrawal-in gestures of non-conformity, in abstentions, restrictions, inhibitions, which will liberate him from the domination of the pentagon of power.

The pickaxe and the basket built cities The steadfast house the pickaxe builds... The house which rebels against the king, The house which is not submissive to its king, The pickaxe makes it submissive to its king.

Ever since I was a kid, I had the urge of expressing myself in any way. Like many kids, you want try on different clothes, different looks. I was kinda punky for a while: I had makeup under my eyes. Then I started wearing more baggy stuff.

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

I got in trouble in film school at USC because one of my Super-8 movies there, in the first semester, involved a snowmobile chase scene. I made an action scene, and they were like, 'That wasn't what you were supposed to be doing.'

I got a lot of my film education from sneaking into media labs at USC. I probably owe USC a lot of money.

We use art to combat the dark side of capitalism.

Oliver Reed was a great man who did things his own way. He used to come into Harveys, my restaurant in Wandsworth, and sit on the floor to have a drink before going to the table.

When I was 10, I had dyed red hair, and I used to paint my nails - I think my mum secretly loved it.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, 'Mr. Cole does not rock n' roll.'