Top 59 Quotes About Maverick
#1. You do have to wonder how Jack Bauer, maverick hero of '24,' can stay hidden for so long when no matter where he goes, he always seems within range of a TV camera. Or six.
Tom Shales
#2. In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe, they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!
Jonas Mekas
#3. A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way or ever claim that it's the best one, except maybe for himself. And don't imagine that this raggle-taggle gypsy is claiming to be free. It's just that some of the necessities to which I am a slave are different from yours.
Orson Welles
#4. Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.
Van Morrison
#5. Then he glanced at Roar, who waited on the dock. Maverick had never heard him speak a word. He'd only seen Roar stare vacantly at the water, or at the sky. "You know, you could do a lot better than him, ladybug." Aria shook her head. "No. I couldn't.
Veronica Rossi
#6. Apparently we need snakes. They don't just hiss, bite and hamper maverick archaeologists. They're
David Mitchell
#7. Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.
Charlton Heston
#8. Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.
Gary Hamel
#9. I want you to love me very hard. Because I'm pretty sure I've never loved someone as hard as I love you, Maverick.
Katy Evans
#11. The ascension of Thomas Maverick Hart was complete the night I looked into your blue eyes and you stuttered "no thank you.
Rachel Robinson
#12. I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.
Sonny Bono
#13. There was a period when I wrote in Nashville for Maverick and then Warner/Chappell, and it was interesting.
Benmont Tench
#14. The critical ingredient is a maverick mind. Focus on trading vehicles, strategies and time horizons that suit your personality. In a nutshell, it all comes down to: Do your own thing (independence); and do the right thing (discipline).
Gil Blake
#15. My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
Vikram Seth
#16. Being a maverick traveller, one would like to place oneself in the place of a local; just listen without judgement.
Mary Jane Walker
#18. Think like a maverick, Fight like a gladiator, Love with a humble heart and Die for a cause worth dying for ... Be a "game changer" ... The basic tenets of my life philosophy.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#19. They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They've followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers.
Neil Tennant
#20. Famous for his 'Maverick' Western series in the 1950s and 'The Rockford Files' in the '70s, and in movies like 'The Great Escape' and 'Grand Prix' in between, James Garner played amiable, independent characters for more than a half-century and never lost his comforting, enduring appeal.
Richard Corliss
#21. I may be a maverick, but it doesn't mean I like playing tricks.
Chen Guangbiao
#22. A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents.
David Del Tredici
#23. You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.
Ben Carson
#24. The [nonprofit] sector is the natural home of nonmajoritarian impulses, movements and values. It comfortably harbors innovators, maverick movements, groups which feel they must fight for their place in the sun, and critics of both liberal conservative persuasion.
John W. Gardner
#25. If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.'
Adam McKay
#26. If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.
R.C. Sproul
#27. 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.
Scott Baio
#28. History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.
Al Davis
#29. It is a strange, repetitive feature of action movies that the infuriating go-by-the-rules boss of the maverick hero is almost invariably Black.)
David Graeber
#30. A freshman had to wear a black turtleneck sweater, corduroy trousers, and a little black cap called a 'dink' on the back of his head," he wrote in his autobiography, Confessions of a Maverick
Dorothy Wickenden
#31. Maverick techs who liked earning danger money and had proven they could keep their mouths shut.
William Gibson
#32. Anyone who strays too far from the majority view or the conventional wisdom is bound to be labeled "arrogant," "a maverick," "a Wildman," "weird," or even "crazy."
John Eliot
#33. It's the way I've imagined you looking at me my entire life, Maverick.
K.L. Kreig
#34. 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.
Ken Stott
#35. There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.
Douglas Adams
#36. Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of the most powerful sources of newness is the rebel or maverick, mind.
Max McKeown
#37. I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.
Christian McKay
#38. The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion.
Kevin Patterson
#40. Our people do not want barren theories from their democracy. Maury Maverick has expressed very quaintly, but clearly, what they really want when he says: 'We Americans want to talk, pray, think as we please and eat regular'.
Robert H. Jackson
#41. We can't help who we love, Maverick," he
K.L. Kreig
#42. We have to kill them inside the program to get them out. The retrieval system is no longer working." Barbelo explained. "But Maverick's making it difficult. They found him and now he's helping them elude their deaths.
Jill Thrussell
#43. It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That's what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble?
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#44. The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their wits instead of their fists.
James Garner
#45. I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.
Brendon Burchard
#46. Settle down, Maverick, this isn't the danger zone.
Eden Summers
#47. I don't live by 'The Rules' you know, and if there's one person who has influenced me in that way of thinking, someone who is a maverick, someone who does 'that' to the system then it's Ian Botham.
David
#48. The new independent spirit at Warner Music is a perfect fit for a stand-alone label like Maverick.
Guy Oseary
#49. If you're used to being a maverick, then people don't get surprised when you start acting strangely.
Richard C. Armitage
#50. Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
Alan Rickman
#51. I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center.
Flula Borg
#52. Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.
David Del Tredici
#53. 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?
CeeLo Green
#54. Do you know what it's like, to hide in the shadows until your soul starts to blend into the darkness?
Maverick Myth Novel
#55. Well I mean... I thought peace and equality was the point of the truce. Obviously equality was a bunch of crap, but there was this big 'togetherness' campaign which, while being totally dorky, was admittedly at the root a nice idea
Liz Maverick
#56. Be individual, break free from the flock to avoid the predictable midsummer haircut.
Fennel Hudson
#57. Have a courage to repulse those people who dare to affront you because everyone has an Achilles' heel. Outshine them, and let your light shine on their damned faces, INTENSELY.
Maverick
#58. I would rather be damned by my honesty, than caged by my lies.
Omega Maverick
#59. Yes, he would be gone, but she knew now what it meant to love. She might not know
what it meant to be loved, but loving was almost as good.
Lora Leigh
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