Quotes About Defiance

You don't like what you see out your window, you put up a wall.

I told him through the door that he could take his job and shove it up his ass. 'Course, a week later I had to ask him to pull it out of his ass and give it back to me.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.

What was the secret to dealing with the assholes? "Lift weights or learn karate," said O'Grady.

Or how his soldiers, even in combat, refused to wear their helmets, claiming that the weather was too hot for them and "if a bullet is going to kill me, it has my name on it anyway." (To which Amos said, "What about all those bullets addressed 'To Whom It May Concern'?")

They stopped testing me. And if you're not going to test me, I'm gonna smoke!

if i followed any of the rules, i wouldn't be where i am today

I sought my wings," she said. "Your wings—you mean the Book might give you a spell so that you could grow wings!" Elric smiled ironically. "And that is why you seek the vessel of the world's mightiest wisdom!" "If you were thought deformed in your own land—it would seem important enough to you," she shouted defiantly.

We fought back with our music; it was the only weapon we had.

He would look Piggy Bacon straight in the eye

I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me,will you. Stop defending yourself.

minor anarchy was still in me.

I naturally have a me-against-the-world mentality, and I've been fighting it since I was 13. It's felt like it's only gotten me in lonely, angry places.

I'd stop in the middle of a gun fight and sing a song.

Most chick singers say 'if you hurt me, I'll die'... I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.'

Every single thing that I was told that I couldn't do without a label - get in the charts, get on to the Radio 1 playlist - I've done.

Until they put that sand and dirt in my face I will not sit in church all day.

We're not going to take this sitting down. We are fighting back.

I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off.

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.

Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.