Quotes About Outsiders

#1. Grade A objectivity won't come from those who are closest to us. It will come from outsiders. That's where we'll find divergent thinking, unexpected questions, novel ideas, differences of opinion, and added expertise.

David Sturt

#2. What was striking about Ms. Wilson, and was also true of the other outsiders who volunteered their time that day, was that she spoke to us prisoners with great respect, as if our lives ahead had hope and meaning and possibility. After all these months at Danbury, this was a shocking novelty.

Piper Kerman

#3. Collecting anything requires a singularity of focus, but 78 collecting demands an almost-inhuman level of concentration. There is a violence to the search, a dysfunctional aggression that vacillates between repellent and endearingly quirky. It's intimidating to outsiders, and it feeds on sacrifice.

Amanda Petrusich

#4. The circus collects the outsiders like a flame tempts moths.

Laura Lam

#5. Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

Al Pacino

#6. There was no honor in grinding outsiders underfoot. There was no joy in burning their legacies. The highest good laid in lifting everyone up, believer and unbeliever alike, to enjoy the light.

C.K. Gold

#7. Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.

Jim McKay

#8. Fascistic leaders are aggressively macho and chauvinistic. They are xenophobic about people who they portray as outsiders or some sort of threat to the nation or as weaklings they can denounce.

Rachel Maddow

#9. Years later, Tony would discover that writers never felt they belonged anywhere. That was one of the reasons they became writers. It was strange, however, failing to belong even at a party full of outsiders.

Nick Hornby

#10. To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'

Langston Hughes

#11. I always tend to write about outsiders. And what's been fun for me is, as I travel around and visit schools, is that other kids that feel the same way relate to some of my characters, and so I hope in some way that's helping them when they want to read about somebody that they can relate to.

Kimberly Willis Holt

#12. I feel like I've always been a weirdo. I always grew up with the sense of being a total outsider. I grew up so alienated from other people, and it never went away. When I'm around "normal" people I behave around them as if they are crazy, which makes me seem crazy.

Young Jean Lee

#13. Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

Andy Serkis

#14. It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.

Max Weber

#15. That such people could accomodate conflicting worldly labels... was a talent of postcolonial life, evidence of adaptation by people who have had many different categories foisted on them by outsiders.

Eliza Griswold

#16. I was always an outsider, proud of being an outsider. I always reveled in the outsiders.

John Zorn

#17. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#18. So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

David Suchet

#19. I really couldn't see what the Socs would have to sweat about - good grades, good cars, good girls, madras and Mustangs and Corvairs - Man, I thought, if I had worries like that I'd consider myself lucky.
I know better now.

S.E. Hinton

#20. Writers are often exiles, outsiders, runaways and castaways.

Jeanette Winterson

#21. You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.

S.E. Hinton

#22. The one [thing about Amish life] that I'm always going to miss is the closeness that I've had with my family. I still talk to them, but I'm an outsider.

Kate Stoltzfus

#23. Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive or negative-they get from the environment.

John Eliot

#24. I've got nothing against outsiders, per se, you understand. It's just that you have to love a town before you can live in it right, and you have to live in it before you can love it right. Otherwise, you're a parasite of sorts.

Russell Banks

#25. What we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something quite different.

Nick Cave

#26. Everyone in life knows what it's like to be picked on and to feel like an outsider.

Ryan Kwanten

#27. I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

Baz Luhrmann

#28. In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

Desmond Tutu

#29. Roman political culture's extraordinary openness and willingness to incorporate outsiders, which set it apart from every other ancient Western society that we know.

Mary Beard

#30. Housing projects can seem like labyrinths to outsiders, as complicated and intimidating as a Moroccan bazaar. But we knew our way around.

Jay-Z

#31. I play outsiders. That's just the way it's gone for me, and I think that's fantastic. I like it because I've always been interested in how the other guy thinks. I want to know what's going on in his head.

Silas Weir Mitchell

#32. I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

Paloma Faith

#33. Many moral matrices coexist within each nation. Each matrix provides a complete, unified, and emotionally compelling worldview, easily justified by observable evidence and nearly impregnable to attack by arguments from outsiders.

Jonathan Haidt

#34. The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story.

S.E. Hinton

#35. I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules.

Klaus Nomi

#36. Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.

Ian Somerhalder

#37. Can you imagine churches actually working together within a city to win the lost? Can you picture pastors unselfishly praying with other pastors, sharing resources among themselves without worrying about who gets the credit? Can you see your city becoming a place where outsiders

Stephen Kendrick

#38. The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

James Russell Lowell

#39. The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.

Sonia Sotomayor

#40. Indeed you do love all the brethren throughout Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, to do so more and more, 11to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you; * 12so that you may command the respect of outsiders, and be dependent on nobody.

Anonymous

#41. This is a terrible place to spend your life in. Nobody in Hollywood is normal. Absolutely nobody. And they have such a vicious attitude toward one another. They say much worse things about each other than outsiders say about them, and nobody has any real friends.

Gary Cooper

#42. The free electoral process is one of the things that outsiders envy most about this country.The distinctly American two-party system is perpetuated through that process.

Robert A. Agresta

#43. Dana was lead singer for The Droids, Sweet Valley High's answer to the Rolling Stones. They had a reputation for being pretty wild, but most of it was just conjecture. Not many outsiders knew what went on in the smoky confines of Max Dellon's basement, where they held their practice sessions.

Francine Pascal

#44. As outsiders looking in, my readers and I must reform how we think so we may open ourselves to new forms of knowledge.

Cristina Marrero

#45. If you're a little mouseburger, come with me. I was a mouseburger and I will help you. You're so much more wonderful than you think. Cosmopolitan is shot full of this stuff although outsiders don't realize it. It is, in its way, an inspiration magazine.

Helen Gurley Brown

#46. I feel like my friends are in a cult because we're like, 'No outsiders!

Leighton Meester

#47. And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

Stephen King

#48. The establishment isn't new. The establishment not wanting outsiders, not wanting conservatives, isn't anything new.

Rush Limbaugh

#49. Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.

Dani Shapiro

#50. There was only a language of families, a tongue woven from a lifetime of shared experiences. Its vocabulary consisted of gestures and curt sentences, incomprehensible to all outsiders. Inside, it wasn't difficult to translate at all.

Courtney Milan

#51. I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique view from the border.

Christopher Rice

#52. I didn't think of myself as an outsider because of my race because ... where I grew up I was the same race as almost everyone else ... It is true that I noticed things that no one else seemed to notice. And I think only people who are outsiders do this.

Jamaica Kincaid

#53. You have to be an outsider to write,

Martin Cruz Smith

#54. He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside.

Joan Didion

#55. It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.

Asne Seierstad

#56. Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.

Stephen Vizinczey

#57. [A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.

Rita Mae Brown

#58. I may be a rebel, but I am not an outsider.

Vivienne Westwood

#59. I don't feel the pressure by outsiders. I'm not someone who's easily influenced by the public.

Khloe Kardashian

#60. Love is banality to all outsiders.

Mae West

#61. She had to save herself from every last one of them. All of them, the people at the orphanage, the foster care system, the middle school, they were all outsiders and strangers and a possible threat.....The counselor couldn't prove otherwise.

Noorilhuda

#62. It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books.

Ally Carter

#63. Like most Two Rivers folk, Rand had a strong stubborn streak. Outsiders sometimes said it was the prime trait of people in the Two Rivers, that they could give mules lessons and teach stones.

Robert Jordan

#64. Women writers specifically ... are the ultimate outsiders.

Janet Fitch

#65. Nice plan. Take the gullible outsiders, walk them around for a bit, then feed them to the giant tortoise.

Ilona Andrews

#66. A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.

Chris Stein

#67. Outsiders are way more likely to approach your organization with fabulous projects if they think they're likely to both get a good reception and succeed when they get to market.

Seth Godin

#68. When I was young, no one wanted to be one; now even the President of the United States would call himself an outsider. So now I'm for insiders.

John Waters

#69. What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe it's that we are all outsiders, we are all making our own unusual way through a wilderness of
normality that is just a myth.

Anne Rice

#70. Just this year, as I was sitting in dining hall at UO, a white student at the next table complained about the "invasion" of Asians on campus. Only outsiders invade.

Alex Tizon

#71. A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders.

Carroll Quigley

#72. Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

Diane Abbott

#73. It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.

Luis Gutierrez

#74. I came from another county. I spent 15 years in Wells, but I was treated like an outsider. It was like, "Oh, you're not local."

Edgar Wright

#75. 'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off.

Michael Patrick King

#76. My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#77. I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers.

Karen Russell

#78. Maybe people are younger when they sleep.

S.E. Hinton

#79. Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.' It's why black people watch 'Latina in America.' All of that is statistically shown and proven but it was because it was good story telling about people who were outsiders.

Soledad O'Brien

#80. Outsider means "I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain."

Aleksandar Hemon

#81. To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.

Roberto Clemente

#82. I've always been an outsider. I am an outsider in Garbage. I'm the odd one out by default.

Shirley Manson

#83. All they expect from you is your best effort. These Marines think that they are special. They are very well trained, very close knit, and they don't like outsiders. If you want their respect, you will have to earn it.

Bruce H. Norton

#84. The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market for almost no profit.

Clayton Christensen

#85. Only man has become an outsider - and because of his own efforts. On his own, he has separated himself from existence.

Rajneesh

#86. I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

John Irving

#87. In times of shrinking expectations, ... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.

Oscar Handlin

#88. The cafeteria made him feel like an observer rather than a participant in the high school experience.

Alexandra Robbins

#89. I know I touch a lot of people. I don't call myself a role model. But I am a leader. Leaders are always watched by team members & outsiders

Spoken Reasons

#90. I use primal imagery, so maybe it's fitting that I use the most primitive of cameras [pinhole cameras]. Since there's no viewfinder, the image is much more of a surprise - as if some outsider came and looked at earth for the first time.

Barbara Ess

#91. I think most of us are outsiders. And I think that's good because it makes you question things.

E.L. Konigsburg

#92. The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.

Edmund Morgan

#93. Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.

Anita Roddick

#94. There are many outsiders that actively try to halt every natural resource development project in Alaska. Many of these same people have never even been to Alaska, yet they claim to know what's best for us.

Lisa Murkowski

#95. I feel like I can be myself in L.A. I feel like Mississippi is a little close-minded; not all of Mississippi is, but just the part that I came from. They really don't get outsiders.

Israel Broussard

#96. 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

#97. Facebook allows outsiders to add functionality to the site but reserves the right to change that policy at any time, to charge a fee for applications, or to de-emphasize or eliminate apps that court controversy or that they simply don't like.

Jonathan Zittrain

#98. But at that moment she had known, with a certainty she would never feel about anything else in her life, that it was right, that she wanted this man in her life. Something inside her said, He understands. What it's like to be different.

Celeste Ng

#99. From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy; we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position; or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider.

T. S. Eliot

#100. Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it.

Henry Adams