Quotes About Outsider

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.

I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer - I just was one.

I've always felt that I was a bit of an outsider to the British children's-book illustration scene, because I don't work in line and wash.

Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.

Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it.

The outsider sees details as meaningless, or doesn't see the details at all. That is what makes most of us outsiders.

I never really felt like I belonged in California.

I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.

We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things.

Since I am an outsider, I never knew how it feels to have a superstar in one's family.

I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been.

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

I suppose when you are an outsider, you will always be an outsider.

My mother could see that as far as my father's relationship with the Party was concerned, she was an outsider. One day, when she ventured some critical comments about the situation and got no response from him, she said bitterly, You are a good Communist, but a rotten husband! My father nodded. He said he knew.

Every place always has somebody who doesn't fit in. That's what makes them fit in.

I'm very down to Earth, I'm just not from this Earth.

She felt as if she had been on the outside of happiness her whole life.

I am the odd man out in the family.

I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't help when my mother, instead of buying me glue for school projects, would tell me to just use rice.

I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.

Who is the dark horse he has in his stable?