Quotes About Rebel

Look at Gretchen Wilson. If she came out in the '70s she'd be the queen of Southern rock.

I am a bad boy. I don't come across clearly to a lot of people, so I am bad for them.

When I use the word rebel for the artist, I do not refer to revolutionary or to such things as taking over the dean's office; that is a different matter. Artists are generally soft-spoken persons who are concerned with their inner visions and images. But that is precisely what makes them feared by any coercive society. For they are the bearers of the human being's age-old capacity to be insurgent.

addictive behavior is often a search for safety rather than an attempt to rebel or a selfish turn inward

James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.

Keep challenging the gods

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

I have done quite a lot of outsider figures.

I don't need anything to have a good time or be a hell-raiser. I was born one.

A rebel can be a miserable and contemptible man; but there is nothing contemptible in a revolt as such - and to be a rebel in view of contemporary society does not in itself lower the value of a man. There are even cases in which one might have to honour a rebel,because he finds something in our society against which war ought to be waged - he wakens us from our slumber.

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

All my life, I've been the rebel in the X-wing fighter, and then one morning, I woke up, and I was on board the Death Star.

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?

More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

I love Prince Harry. Good looking and a bit of a rebel. Me and his dad are as thick as thieves and I knew Harry before I knew his dad so we've met a few times. I think he's amazing. And I think you can relate to him because he's made mistakes. He's cool.

First learn the rules, then break them.

across from him at the other end. Tarkin looked up from the table's data screen and said, "Yes." "Our scout ships have reached Dantooine," Officer Cass reported. "They found the remains of a Rebel base, but they estimate that it has been deserted for some time. They are now conducting an extensive search of the surrounding systems." Having delivered his report, Cass turned and

Then above the confused sounds Stuart Tarleton's voice rose, in an exultant shout, 'Yee-aay-ee!' as if he were on the hunting field. And she heard for the first time, without knowing it, the Rebel yell.

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

Other trophies included a bundle of captured flags, which he sent to City Point that evening by a special messenger. Lincoln was delighted. "Here is something material," he said as he unfurled the shot-torn rebel colors; "something I can see, feel, and understand. This means victory. This is victory.

There was no safety for the survivors until they regained the cover of their artillery, which promptly drove the pursuers back with severe losses and shift without delay to the rebel batteries, blanketing them so accurately with shell-bursts that the fire drew an indirect compliment from Pelham himself, who happened to be visiting this part of the line at the time. Well, you men stand killing better than any I ever saw, he remarked as he watched the cannoneers being knocked about. (p. 37).