Quotes About Maverick

You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

We committed the unpardonable crime of being mavericks who were successful.

I've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step.

I love playing outsiders, I always do.

I was a troublemaker. For a long time, I didn't fit in.

The late maverick economist Kenneth Boulding perhaps best summed it up when testifying before the U.S. Congress, declaring that "anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

I'm glad I've established this as my zone: 'the taboo breaker.'

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down.

The man is a genius, and geniuses don't have to abide by the same rules as the rest of the world.

Twitter is a form of free speech, and I'm all for that. But if Cee Lo Green, a maverick of sorts, can't get on Twitter and say something outlandish or outrageous, then what is the whole point of Twitter at all?

Yes, Einstein was a badass.

There was a period when I wrote in Nashville for Maverick and then Warner/Chappell, and it was interesting.

Well, Your Worship, does this mean I get to go back to being a scoundrel? She

I always go for the underdog or the rogue or the rebel.

I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.

Now she thinks to go at this all by herself: a rogue element.

No, Viana: ahora eres una proscrita.

I've got a feeling that with the best coppers - and in fact the best people in any field of work - what sets them apart is a maverick quality. People who are not afraid to bend the rules in order to achieve the universally desired end.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

So the question is ... You wanna be a Scruffian or not?

I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.

I tend to be drawn to characters who are not rule followers, who behave in unexpected and unusual ways.

I don't think of myself as a maverick at all. Quite the opposite - I really think of myself as quite conventional but dispersed over unusual territory.