Top 100 An Outsider Quotes
#1. Geeks are running the world, anyone who's seen The Social Network knows the dynamic has shifted, but what I think is iconic and timeless about Peter Parker is that he's an outsider, on the outside looking in, and that was something I thought was very important to protect.
Marc Webb
#2. I can't believe the world was created in six days. I do not take Genesis or Revelation literally. I AM OUT. I am alone. I am an outsider for Christ. I will study my Bible, and pray to God in private and alone. I have no other choice.
Anne Rice
#3. Paul started out as an outsider to the apostolic band and originally opposed rather than supported their movement.
Bart D. Ehrman
#4. That's who I was. Always an outsider. As the outsider, you can retreat into a shell, be anonymous, be invisible. Or
Trevor Noah
#5. I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life.
Thom Mayne
#6. I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
Madonna Ciccone
#7. I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been.
Allegra Huston
#8. But, Jill, if a thing is sinful on Sunday, it is sinful on Friday - at least it groks that way to an outsider, myself - or perhaps to a man from Mars.
Robert A. Heinlein
#9. So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.
David Suchet
#10. I was an outsider who seemed more interested in attacking what was being taught than learning from it.
Robert M. Pirsig
#11. Everyone in life knows what it's like to be picked on and to feel like an outsider.
Ryan Kwanten
#12. I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.
Tift Merritt
#13. Whenever a Gujarati or Sikh businessman comes to a Republican event, it begins with an appeal to Jesus Christ. While the Democrats are really good at making the outsider feel at home, the Republicans make little or no effort.
Dinesh D'Souza
#14. I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.
Virginia Woolf
#15. But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.
James Wolfensohn
#16. I had no idea what I was walking into, and the years and years of hard work it would take. I felt like an outsider and like it was never going to happen. But even if I would have known, I think I still would have done it. Dancers are perfectionists, and that's what keeps us going and growing.
Misty Copeland
#18. I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren't necessarily trying to hear that all the time.
A-Trak
#19. I think it's hard for an outsider to capture the flavor of a community and all its nuances, so ultimately Haitian-Americans need to start sharing intimate accounts of their stories.
Edwidge Danticat
#20. When you're an outsider, you don't have loyalties to anyone, so you can be cruelly honest if need be. The more you get inside, the more you are involved in polite networks of professional coercion that make people less honest.
Molly Crabapple
#21. Francie of course became an outsider shunned by all because of her stench. But she had grown accostumed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and being considered different. She did not suffer to much.
Betty Smith
#22. In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.
Abigail Washburn
#23. The outsider is not sure who he is. He has found an "I", but it is not his true "I".' His main business is to find his way back to himself.
Colin Wilson
#24. I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian.
Paul Merton
#26. At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.
Lance Bass
#27. To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.
Junot Diaz
#28. Being a "lone wolf" has is advantages you can look from outside in and the inside out, you can get a sense for something from the clarity of being an outsider. You are free from the constraints of negative influence.
Paul Isaacs
#29. My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
Alice Hoffman
#30. No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.
Banana Yoshimoto
#31. I look for a thematic idea running through my movies and I see that it's the outsider struggling for recognition. I realize that all my life I've been an outsider, and above all, being lonely but never realizing it.
Martin Scorsese
#32. I'm aware of being a stranger, an outsider, and that's always an advantage for an artist. It means I can see from the inside and the outside. I have that double vision.
John Hirsch
#33. Declan's eternal position as an outsider, neither a dreamer nor a dream.
Maggie Stiefvater
#34. I recently heard a great writer say that an essential element in the life of a writer is to have been an outsider in childhood, to have been given the "gift" of not belonging.
Elizabeth Lesser
#35. In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform.
Sue Wicks
#36. I've always been an outsider. When I did magic, I was the only kid. When I worked with Johnny Cash, I was completely out of place in Nashville. And when I started Def Jam, I was the only white guy in the hip-hop world.
Rick Rubin
#37. I always felt like something of an outsider. But I identified with people up on the screen. That made me feel like I wanted to be up on the screen too. I felt like eventually I would get there.
Luke Perry
#38. There's nothinng like an outsider's idle glance to make you conscious of your own environment.
Sue Grafton
#39. I've always felt kind of like an outsider, even when I was very successful back in the old days. Even then. I kind of enjoyed it, really.
Nick Lowe
#40. Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.
Diane Abbott
#41. Or maybe ... " Frank hesitated. "What?" Percy asked. "Probably nothing," Frank said. "Romans and Greeks have an old rivalry. Sometimes Romans use graecus as an insult for someone who's an outsider - an enemy.
Rick Riordan
#42. The feeling of being an outsider was a big part of my childhood. I think that helps comedians. That feeling of being an outsider. That desire for a perspective that's all your own. The idea for me to make stuff myself with my own meaning came from that as well.
Kurt Braunohler
#43. It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
Katarina Witt
#44. I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere ... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.
Annie Lennox
#45. I never thought of myself as an outsider. Because outside of what? You would have to give advantage to this space where you're not, to think of it as sovereign because you're not there. I was always in the center of where I needed to be.
Aleksandar Hemon
#46. As an outsider myself, I always mixed myself with different groups ... I've never been afraid to go into a different space and relate to those people, because I don't have a place where I belong and that means I belong everywhere.
Trevor Noah
#47. I no longer represent any organized religion. I'm not Catholic. I'm not Christian. I'm saying this because I have to be an outsider for Christ.
Anne Rice
#48. Fine, she said, and frowned. Monosyllabicism. An Outsider disease, and she'd been infected.
Veronica Rossi
#49. I travel with a boom box. When I get on a plane, I stuff the power cord for the boom box into the battery compartment. From an outsider's point of view, it looks like I've got it all wrong.
Mitch Hedberg
#50. In a sense, I feel a lot more an outsider in Los Angeles than I did in Newfoundland.
Rhys Ifans
#51. I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.
Eric McCormack
#52. I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
H.P. Lovecraft
#53. I'm always thinking as an outsider, and I'm always mindful of whether a company can be impactful on a global basis. Frankly, I'm paranoid about anyone anywhere who could be a competitive threat.
Danny Rimer
#54. There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
P. J. O'Rourke
#55. In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.
David LaChapelle
#56. My natural state is an outsider. I've always felt outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group.
Michael Burry
#57. I had never had a deep sense of belonging anywhere. I always felt I was an outsider.
Chirlane McCray
#58. I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.
Joel Kinnaman
#59. The real core of this book is about the open secrets that can fester in a community until an outsider raises questions.
J. Alexander Greenwood
#60. The key to understanding my career is that I was never into technology. From the beginning, I brought an outsider's point of view, which is why I write for a layman's publication.
David Pogue
#61. Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.
Scott Kahn
#62. To an outsider it seems a vital ingredient of many marriages that each partner should support the illusions of the other.
Julian Fellowes
#63. The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is not human, so he's always on the margins.
Anne Rice
#64. To the CIA, everyone's an outsider.
Tim Weiner
#66. There was a time when I desperately wanted to be part of a Yash Chopra film, not because he was a great director, but because I was an outsider and I wanted that validation of being accepted in the film industry.
Katrina Kaif
#67. I've always just been more comfortable as an outsider.
Paul Rhys
#68. I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.
Rachel Sklar
#69. Later in life, suddenly, if you're an outsider, it's something to be celebrated, I think, rather than getting on people's nerves.
Nick Lowe
#70. In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.
Ray Bradbury
#71. I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.
Jeremy Paxman
#72. A mediator is an impartial outsider who tries to aid the negotiators in their quest to find a compromise agreement.
Howard Raiffa
#73. I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.
Zooey Deschanel
#74. Anna ... envied Joan's deep connection with the human race. She was a member of the club. Anna was half convinced she'd been begotten by a passing alien life-form on a human woman. It was as good an explanation as any for the sense she had of being an outsider.
Nevada Barr
#75. I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
Xavier Niel
#76. If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.
Tim Burton
#77. I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider.
Robert Crumb
#78. I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were not mine. I never felt them. I liked how open in most ways Catalan nationalism was, compared to Irish nationalism. I disliked the violence and cruelty in Ireland.
Colm Toibin
#79. In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.
Michelle Malkin
#80. He didn't want an outsider judging his family. That was his job.
Toni Morrison
#81. I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.
Richard Grossman
#82. You can live here all your life, and still be considered an outsider.
E.D. Rea
#83. I think everyone can feel like an outsider. I know I have. I've always felt like one.
Lily James
#84. I know what it feels like to be an outsider.
Judith Light
#85. No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.
Alexander Cockburn
#86. I find myself changing my entire lifestyle every three years or so, and I'm comfortable in being an outsider. I have grown up like that.
Poorna Jagannathan
#87. I was an outsider ... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.
Elia Kazan
#88. Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.
Karen Joy Fowler
#89. Metal is the feeling of being an outsider, but still being part of something huge.
Brian Posehn
#90. Halt!" Marco remained hidden behind the door. "This area is restricted." The voice sounded distorted. It must have been an Outsider in a mask.
Dayna Lorentz
#91. When you are a member of an out-group, and you challenge others with whom you share this outsider position to examine some aspect of their lives that distorts differences between you, then there can be a great deal of pain.
Audre Lorde
#92. I am an outsider, a lesbian, a shikse. The Jewish community is not my community. But as a Jew
as a Jew in a Christian, anti-Semitic society
the Jewish community is, and will always remain, my community. Enemy and ally.
Irena Klepfisz
#93. America has never taken me to its heart. I've always been an outsider.
Don McCullin
#94. I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.
Michael Arad
#95. I've never fit in in any music world. I've always been an outsider. I mean, the fact that I live in Indiana - I live in a fly-over state. I'm not running away from anything, that's the problem. Most people go to cities because they don't like where they come from.
John Mellencamp
#96. Parents don't become inaccessible to your Children, when they don't get the right information from you, they may get the wrong one from an outsider; you are their Caretaker..be wise!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#97. I've been an outsider all my life. It's been kind of hard, but I like that way of living.
Haruki Murakami
#98. She wrote that she, too, always felt an outsider "...even to myself.
Will Weaver
#99. I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative. I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.
Bill Hicks
#100. She (his future wife) was so deep into the Lord's presence that I felt like an outsider.
Jeremy Camp
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