Quotes About Iconoclast

It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain in your own croquet set. As Lassiter crouched beside the Brother's pretzel of a body, he was feeling a little nauseous himself, and he took a moment to cup what hung between his legs—just to reassure the boys downstairs that however much of an iconoclast he was, some things were sacred.

I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.

Yes, Einstein was a badass.

There may be room in government service for the altruist and the iconoclast, but I have yet to see one who was not treated as an oddity at best and at worst an object of suspicion and fear.

Man, I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

So the question is ... You wanna be a Scruffian or not?

I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul Newman.

MY FATHER was a brilliant man, a true iconoclast, fiercely self-reliant, a dark genius, cruel, selfish, and eternally optimistic. Early in his sales career, a boss called him an "independent son of a bitch," which Dad took as the highest compliment he'd ever received. He wanted me to be the same way. Dad had no hobbies, no distractive activities. He didn't do household chores, wash the car

Hippies? Why, I'm the original.

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.

I'm the git in the family.

There's no question that the resolution of dissonance has always been the norm against which the occasional iconoclast has sought to make its mark

Smithson was someone of tremendous significance whose work was not beautiful at all. I think he was an iconoclast.

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

I don't want to be hip and cool. I don't want to play by the rules.

I'm not a role model. I'm a role villain.

I'm as far outside of the mainstream political establishment as you can get.

Travis McGee, that big brown loose-jointed boat bum, that pale-eyed, wire-haired girl-seeker, that slayer of small savage fish, that beach-walker, gin-drinker, quip-maker, peace-seeker, iconoclast, disbeliever, argufier, that knuckly, scar-tissued reject from a structured society.

I don't think, 'Gee, I'd like to dress this person.' There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this funny worship.

I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.

You think that you are an iconoclast, but you're not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you retreat into something else. Nothing changes you.... I left you because I knew I could never change you. You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.

We were the rebels without a cause and he was our Sal Mineo.

While Galileo was a rebel, not all rebels are Galileo"—