Quotes About Misfit

A young man who has the right strength for one organization may be a total misfit in another, which from the outside looks just the same.

a noncol. A useless misfit, an outsider. A loner lacking college degrees.

Most of the time, I feel like a perpetual smudge. My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.

I have to admit, I was a little bit of a misfit.

I've never really fit in anywhere.

This was all horribly wrong. This was red wine with fish. This was a man wearing a dinner jacket and brown shoes. This was as wrong as things get.

A genius in the wrong position could look like a fool.

But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.

But it was like wearing a size five sneakers when your foot is a seven- you can get by for a few steps, and then you set down and pull off the shoes because it just plain much

I was ever ill-suited for this world and could not bend my nature to it.

So here we sit on the island of misfit lovers. The broken, the maimed, the malformed, who still, all sensible evidence to the contrary, believe in love, crave love.

I shivered at the notion of a Misfit with empathy or coercion, driven by defective will. Thank Lud, Ariel had never realised his abiities or used them consciously. How much more harm might he have done? Chapter 9, page 97

I always viewed myself as kind of hip-hop's outcast, or hip-hop's stepson.

Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit in, fit in with other people, and thus we must invent or find the means through communication to satisfy as well as resolve conflicting desires and instincts.

I am an anachronism. People realize this and resent it.

On the prow of the wagon, in an attempt to attract business among the Quarterites, Ignatius taped a sheet of Big Chief paper on which he had printed in crayon: TWELVE INCHES (12) OF PARADISE. So far no one had responded to its message.

She was a troublemaker and a sneak. Insubordinate, vicious. A foul-mouthed, cat-eyed little misfit.

I got born in the wrong family.

I'm the git in the family.

He's like a man with a fork, in a world of soup. (about his brother Liam)

I didn't really know what to expect from detention but when I waked into the room, the first thought I had was, I don't belong in here with these future criminals.

Traditionally, men's identity and self-respect have been based on the ability to obtain energy from the environment for their own and their families' use. Whether the satisfaction a man gets from doing a necessary job is partly genetically programmed, or is entirely learned from the culture, the fact is that more or less everywhere a man who is not a provider is to some extent a misfit.

Anthony Durnford was a fish out of water, both in terms of experience and, even more importantly, in the closely interlinked fields of judgement and temperament.

He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.