Quotes About Outsiders

I always tend to write about outsiders. And what's been fun for me is, as I travel around and visit schools, is that other kids that feel the same way relate to some of my characters, and so I hope in some way that's helping them when they want to read about somebody that they can relate to.

Musicals have long given voice to outsiders and speak of experiences in our culture and environment.

I like men and women who don't fit well in the dominant culture, or, as Alvar de Campos calls them, strangers in this place as in every other, accidental in life as in the woul. I like outsiders, phantoms wandering the cobwebbed halls of the doomed castle where life must be lived. David Grossman may love Israel, but he wanders its cobwebbed halls, just as his namesake Vasily wandered Russia's. To write is to know that you are not home.

nonexperts or outsiders are often better at questioning than the experts. No one would argue that expert knowledge isn't valuable—but when it's time to question, it can get in the way.

In 1936 the New York Jesuits opened Xavier Labor School in Chelsea—the West Side's preeminent waterfront neighborhood—designed to combat the infiltration of local unions by communists, the ultimate outsiders.

I was not a cute teenager. I was not graceful, bubbly, or precocious. I did not cheerlead, work on the yearbook, organize spirit rallies, or plan dance-offs between opposing gangs of sexy brooding outsiders.

This, the Christians believed, was God's work and not theirs. So they did not engage in frantic action to save those who were not baptized; instead they entrusted the outsiders to God. The church, patiently, also entrusted itself to God, who would bring people into "the community of saints participating in truth" by the arduous means of catechesis and baptism.

Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.

Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.

our postwar residential areas are extremely hostile to strangers, outsiders, and new residents of the area.

I am interested in outsiders. I suppose I have always felt like one myself.

MOST OF THE NATIONS OF the Middle East can be divided into those with long histories and no oil, and those that have lots of oil and very little history. With a few notable exceptions, both groups share a common feature: they were cobbled together by outsiders. The borders of the modern Middle East were drawn by Europeans after the First World War with no regard for the interests or backgrounds of the people who inhabited it.

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Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

If we look at the complexity of the challenges facing western societies today, we see that the problems are not really about outsiders, but have their roots much closer to home.

In Milwaukee last month a man died laughing over one of his own jokes. That's what makes it so tough for us outsiders. We have to fight home competition.

Take a look around, there are misfits everywhere.

Mud brothers, he thought. Sharers of a truth that could never be defined by the labels that had been created by outsiders. After all, what tiny fraction of America had ever even seen that nasty, vicious corner of the war, that corridor of terror and sorry that had so devoured the few who had?

This is the essence of codebreaking, finding patterns, and because it's such a basic human function, codebreakers have always emerged from unexpected places. They pop up from strange corners. Codebreakers tend to be oddballs, outsiders. The most important trait is not pure math skill but a deeper ability to pay attention.