Quotes About Outsider

I'm the only English thing they can vent their anger on.

Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country

Nope," said Nudge, shaking her head. "You stand out like a fart in church." "Appropriately enough," I muttered.

We choose exile as a vantage point; from exile we look back on the rejected

I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.

My characteristics as a scientist stem from a non-conformist upbringing, a sense of being something of an outsider, and looking for different perceptions in everything from novels, to art to experimental results. I like complexity and am delighted by the unexpected. Ideas interest me.

I'm lucky: I always wanted to be an actor. But I never felt the need to be in with the crowd. I didn't mind being on the outside. I was always looking forward or upwards, not in.

I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.

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

There's a great deal of echoing going on in 'Old School.' Mr. Piven, who played the upstart outsider in the 1994 campus comedy 'PCU,' has crossed over into playing the stiff martinet.

I do have an outsider's complex of getting made fun of. I was made fun of as a kid, and I don't have the stomach for it.

In Mumbai, I feel like a stranger.

In Peep Show terms, Berlin is a city of Jeremys marooned in a nation of Marks. My

Janwillem van de Wetering (Holland) Outsider in Amsterdam Tumbleweed The Corpse on the Dike Death of a Hawker The Japanese Corpse The Blond Baboon The Maine Massacre The Mind-Murders The Streetbird The Rattle-Rat Hard Rain Just a Corpse at Twilight Hollow-Eyed Angel The Perfidious Parrot Amsterdam Cops: Collected Stories

The suicide John Kennedy Toole is probably the most famous True Outsider, though it pains me to admit that I regard A Confederacy of Dunces as one of the most overrated novels ever published. I am glad, all the same, that it was published, if only for the moments of reflection it caused those who rejected it to suffer.

I didn't fit in on my football team; I was always the odd one out.

In my case, I am always that odd candidate that doesn't look like everybody else.

Oh, I never fit in anywhere. I'm a loner. I don't even have many friends.

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis

In no company had I ever felt so much an outsider. Yet I liked the company, and wished that it would like me.

What if all I'd ever known was how it had been for the past three years - me being an unwanted outsider in my own family? I might have turned out like Aphrodite, and I might still be letting my parents control me because I was hoping desperately that I would be good enough, make them proud, so that some day they would really love me.

Younger citizens of the town do not know him at all save as a tall, apparently strong and healthy man who loafs in a brooding, saturnine fashion wherever he will be allowed, never exactly accepted by any group.

I see all the while how folks could say he was queer, but that was the very reason couldn't nobody hold it personal. It was like he was outside of it too, same as you, and getting mad at it would be kind of like getting mad at a mud-puddle that splashed you when you stepped in it.

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.