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Quotes About Misfits

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.
~ Patti LuPone
All of them, you see, misfits, all good for nothing, cowards, baboons, meek wolves, parasites, every man jack of them, people afraid to face their own responsibilities, fight their own fight, ready to go anywhere, as Tolstoy well perceived—
~ Malcolm Lowry
a colorful collection of losers and scalawags, inconsequential and meandering, waiting around for the winds of fate to blow them off the map.
~ Russell Shorto
Consider the gene pool," she told him. "This country was settled by dissidents and malcontents and misfits and adventurers. Thorny people. They don't always follow the etiquette.
~ Anne Tyler
This country was settled by dissidents and malcontents and misfits and adventurers. Thorny people. They don't always follow the etiquette.
~ Anne Tyler
It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.
~ Gerald Caiafa
Misfits … It seems to me that their adventure, more than any other, sheds a light on the future, that they alone allow us to glimpse and to decipher it, and that if we set their exploits aside we utterly disqualify ourselves from describing the days to come.
~ Emil M. Cioran
My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.
~ Xavier Dolan
Welcome to the island of misfit toys
~ Stephen Chbosky
Secret Six has always had a special place in the DCU, just because they're the misfits. The content is a little bit different than the rest of the mainstream titles. It has a completely different tone than any of the other books out there.
~ Gail Simone
If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.
~ Stephen Fry
Dumb goth kids who'd have to move up a step on the food chain to be called losers, maybe.
~ Harlan Coben
It's a relentless regime with 'Misfits.' I'm actually a little bit nervous of it, because I know it's going to be so tough to film, but we have a good crack at it.
~ Joe Gilgun
Yeah, well, I guess I feel like all of us misfits need to hang together. At least that way we don't swing along. (Tabitha)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
In the community of living tissues, the uncontrolled mob of misfits that is cancer behaves like a gang of perpetually wilding adolescents. They are the juvenile delinquents of cellular society.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
I majored in extracurriculars, honestly. I joined the Harvard Stand Up Comedy Society, which is a ragtag band of misfits. I wrote for 'On Harvard Time,' which was a student TV show trying to be 'The Daily Show.' And I wrote a humor column for 'The Crimson' starting my sophomore year.
~ Alexandra Petri
Basically, we were misfits, we were people who were looking for a tribe—we didn't feel comfortable in society, so we were looking for our own society
~ Michael Azerrad
I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.
~ Stephan Jenkins
I love stories about misfits and underdogs.
~ Elizabeth Banks
Harold and Maude' was a seminal movie for me because it's not only a beautiful love story, but it's also about the moment when misfits find each other.
~ Stephen Chbosky
It has often been the case throughout history that those who became legends in their fields were often recluses, loners, and misfits. They did not feel comfortable in crowds. They lived an almost hermetic existence. It is not coincidental that such a personality often achieves brilliance. For he is not Colored by the contagious mediocrity of a peer group.
~ Kapil Gupta
The world seemed quite willing to accept misunderstood artists, misunderstood thieves, and even peasants who dreamed of royalty. But nobody knew what to do with a misunderstood philologist. Other than run him out of town for bringing the dragons down on them.
~ Brandon Sanderson
There's a band of studio session - hot players - that play on my albums... They're an eclectic bunch of misfits that I've worked with for years and years.
~ Toby Keith
We are a society impatient with its misfits
~ Stephen Reid