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Quotes About Misfit

Nope," said Nudge, shaking her head. "You stand out like a fart in church." "Appropriately enough," I muttered.
~ James Patterson
I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
~ Edith Sitwell
Yes, would have been,' he said sadly. 'He's precisely one of those people of whom they say that they're not meant for this world.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.
~ Lewis Lapham
That cup of tea is definately not down your alley
~ Jean Ferris
I was the kid who was too geeky for the other kids.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I was kind of a misfit, actually. When you're young, you want to be like everybody else, and I was like nobody else. I couldn't sit still. I was impulsive. I still am. What is now called a 'talent' did not serve me well as a child. I didn't have friends. I was really an outcast.
~ Howie Mandel
I'm definitely gonna be an outcast.
~ Kane Brown
I've always kind of been an outcast.
~ Julia Fox
I understand the feelings of being the outcast and the loner.
~ Krysten Ritter
I was always an outcast, even in my family.
~ Krysten Ritter
I always feel like an outcast... it's just always been very different to everyone else.
~ Paige Spiranac
I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.
~ Jeremy Paxman
As a kid I just felt like an outsider.
~ Marilyn Manson
The most unhappy people in a company are the ones who don't fit the culture and are allowed to stay. They know they don't belong. Deep down inside they don't want to be there. They're miserable.
~ Patrick Lencioni
But you're like me," he says. "An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.
~ Darren Shan
I'm the git in the family.
~ Clive Owen
Jane had tried that with Mothers Group and failed. She just couldn't relate to those bright, chatty women and their bubbly conversations about husbands who weren't "stepping up" and renovations that weren't finished before the baby was born and that hilarious time they were so busy and tired they left the house without putting on any makeup! (Jane, who was wearing no makeup at the time, and never wore makeup, had kept her face blank and benign, while she inwardly shouted: What the fuck?)
~ Liane Moriarty
I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.
~ Unknown
We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
It was possible to feel superior to other people and like a misfit at the same time.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.
~ Iggy Azalea
I was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among all the other different kinds of geek that I was growing up, and I found I was pretty good at it.
~ Rainn Wilson