Fitting Into Quotes

#1. The American work environment has to change, not the women. We should be recognizing that what women are not fitting into is a very narrow, male-dominated workplace of the 1950s.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

#2. The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at large and of the universe and its patterns, as becomes what she perceives as fitting into place, into her sense of natural justice.

Judy Grahn

#3. I really love music that's on the periphery of not fitting into a clear genre. I felt like I was constantly being described as something I didn't really feel like I identified with.

Kathleen Edwards

#4. Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

Bob Dylan

#5. If most people owned up to their own insanity maybe the rest of the world would be diagnosed with sanity and we would lock them up for not fitting into our society.

Thatcher C. Nalley

#6. I don't think of myself as fitting into a category. But I had to be careful in all of my books not to repeat things, because I have these ideas, and though the subjects were disparate, the same idea would come up through different portals.

Melissa Holbrook Pierson

#7. People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.

Liz Phair

#8. What I'm trying to get you to understand is that I get it that you think of women as fitting into two categories
whores and the Madonna. But I'm neither. I'm just Jessica, somewhere in between, and I love you and want you to accept me.

Erin McCarthy

#9. I run a lot. If I don't have time to go to the gym or don't have time to work out properly, I will go for a quick run. I think running is a great way to stay fit, and I really concentrate on fitting into a realistic urban lifestyle.

Stella McCartney

#10. I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.

Andres Serrano

#11. When I was older and I first started working, I was obsessed with buying my first Chanel jacket. I saved up my hard-earned money, went to Barneys, and bought a little black Chanel jacket. It saw many, many job interviews and many, many events. I'm not fitting into it lately, but I still have it.

Nina Garcia

#12. I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well.

Warwick Davis

#13. I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#14. I've never been very good at fitting into boxes.

Neneh Cherry

#15. We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion - that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around.

Dani Shapiro

#16. Right now I'm not fitting into the coach's plans and so I just want to make sure I can do the best I can and improve myself and make sure I get picked.

Danny Cipriani

#17. I feel like a turtleneck dress that's long-sleeved and covers your entire body but is tight fitting is so much sexier than boobs spilling out, you know? So I guess I'm more into being classy sexy versus apparent sexy.

Shailene Woodley

#18. Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their character.

John Stuart Mill

#19. How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.

Alexander McQueen

#21. God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#22. He hadn't let what he looked like run his life one way or the other, any more than he'd let the Combine mill him into fitting where they wanted him to fit.

Ken Kesey

#23. I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any way.

Edith Head

#24. Sometimes, we pay a higher price for trying to help someone fit into their skin than we do trying to fit into ours.

Srividya Srinivasan

#25. She stalked toward me, hips swaying side to side, eyes hardened with anger. Echo pushed her body agaist mine, parts of her fitting perfectly into parts of me. I swore under my breath, fighting for control over my body.

Katie McGarry

#26. Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#27. Fitting in is one of those horrible diseases that turn reasonable minds into sheep-gelatin hive minds.

Alida Nugent

#28. Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can - in other words, think of walking as alternative transportation.

Andrew Weil

#29. and turned into Bartholomew Close; and now I became aware that other people were waiting about for Mr. Jaggers, as well as I. There were two men of secret appearance lounging in Bartholomew Close, and thoughtfully fitting their feet into the cracks of the pavement as they

Charles Dickens

#30. I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

Jodi Picoult

#31. I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.

Felix Frankfurter

#32. It's been proven that fitting more activity into your day can greatly improve your health.

Pierre Dukan

#33. Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

Janeane Garofalo

#34. His red hair was buzz cut, and he wore his ill-fitting suit like something that he planned to rip his way out of when he turned into the Hulk.

Jim Butcher

#35. I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.

C. JoyBell C.

#36. We don't tell everything we know about ourselves. We tell those things that we feel have a chance poetically of fitting back into life and that means fitting back into the feelings of other people.

Emmet Gowin

#37. Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress.

Bruno Tonioli

#38. That empty sick feeling came over me again. In a big school it was easy to fade into the background, but I didn't know if that would be possible here. I tried not to think about it anymore.

Dana Michelle Burnett

#39. And right away as soon as I started doing Pilates, about 2 to 3 weeks into it I could tell that my clothes were already fitting differently. And I felt stronger than ever. My core felt tighter than ever.

Daisy Fuentes

#40. Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.

Pat Conroy

#41. This was how they wished they had been: each was creating an ideal into which he was now fitting his past life.

Gustave Flaubert

#42. It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.

Russell Baker

#43. Maybe it's wrong-footed trying to fit people into the world, rather than trying to make the world a better place for people.
[as quoted in "Brain Gain" by Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 4/27/09 issue]

Paul McHugh

#44. The truth is like Spandex ... It may not look like a good fit at first, but if you ease into it and wiggle around, it winds up fitting your skin.

Sheila Turnage

#45. But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.

Dave Rowntree

#46. His chief interest was in reading fiction, then trying to analyze what he had read, fitting it into a larger pattern.

Stephen King

#47. And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.

Amy Irving

#48. She relaxed, fitting perfectly into my body. In the crisp, cold February air, we swayed together, moving to our own personal beat. For one moment, we escaped hell. No teachers, no therapist, no well-meaning friends, no nightmares-just the two of us, dancing.

Katie McGarry

#49. My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.

Mamie Gummer

#50. The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.

Elliott Abrams