Quotes About Outsider

In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.

I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.

There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

I'm a scrappy outsider from Boston, so didn't have a privileged background at all like many in business.

When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.

When I go back to NFL functions today, I feel a bit on the outside looking in. I played 13 years in the NFL, and I loved it - made a Pro Bowl and went to the playoffs - but I always felt like I was having to knock the door down to get in.

I find the sort of unwitting European American outsider who wants to come to Africa to help is a very problematic construction. It's problematic because you don't want to tell people don't aid, don't help, when people feel a need to.

It's something that one expects after 12 years - to be eaten up by the process - but we're still very much on the outside.

I have one of those faces that nobody likes.

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

I'm the black sheep: I got into telly.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

As a West Point graduate, Grant had enjoyed an insider's knowledge of military personnel during the war, but as a Washington outsider, he needed the valuable advice of seasoned professionals about appointments.

not how Washington works. Nobody washes their dirty linen in public. So you need some other outsider. And you've got two of them sitting right in front of you.

They think know-nothings are good because they're not invested in the status quo. They think they bring fresh perspectives

Every new refugee to a society, whether it's the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the new outsider population, the new other.

Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission.

The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity.

Las burlas le hacían sentirse como un forastero; y, sintiéndose como un forastero, se comportaba como tal.

He comes in entirely as an outsider. He lets his mind wander. He's not endangering his academic position because he doesn't have one, and he can take those risks

I'm the only one outside of Icarus

the perennial outsider with his nose to the window, looking in on a world from which he felt excluded.

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

I've been an outsider all my life - I don't care.