Social Pariah Quotes

#1. Whoever seeks to live by brain and pen alone is, at the beginning of such a career, treated as a sort of social pariah.

Marie Corelli

#2. I was 10 when I realised I couldn't stand football. I'd tried, obviously, before this - no one wants to give in to social pariah-hood without a fight. I had stood frozen on pitches, done some running about and shouted a lot, as though I cared.

Andrew O'Hagan

#3. He was some sort of boxing champion," she told me the night she took me out to celebrate my graduation. "He was always punching someone in the nose."
"Macho," I said.
"No," she said. "It was the clarity of expression that appealed to him.

Melissa Bank

#4. Music is a spiritual doorway its power comes from the fact that it plugs directly into the soul, unlike a lot of visual art or textual information that has to go through the more filtering processes of the brain.

Peter Gabriel

#5. You don't look like the librarians I remember," he told her.
"We've changed. There was a whole press release issued about it, but we didn't get much media coverage.

Susan Mallery

#6. Instead of courage' management guru Tom Peters recommends fostering 'a level of fury with the status quo such that one cannot not act.

Adam M. Grant

#7. He followed his daily routine, and she followed hers. But without her there, Tengo noticed a human-shaped void she had left behind.

Haruki Murakami

#8. London was littered with social clubs and houses of chance, but Malfeasance was not just any gaming hell. It was located in the most notorious part of London and, Graydon had heard, was run by a pariah Djinn named Malphas.

Thea Harrison

#9. Over the years most of my peers had come to hate me - I never understood why. I guess I was just different and, like dogs, they could smell it. So I never had many friends.

Sol Luckman

#10. Attain the unattainable.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#11. Don't think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.

Kami Garcia

#12. I had to restrain myself from buying a book on 19th-century fruit knives.

Susanna Clarke

#13. Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status.

Swami Vivekananda

#14. The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

Cyril Connolly

#15. I opted for the rear door, both as a courtesy and so she couldn't freak out about me showing up on her front doorstep for all of East Falls to see. Being the village pariah does make social calls most trying.
-Paige

Kelley Armstrong

#16. Every action has a consequence, so always try to be good.

Richard Eyre

#17. Only those who do not use life as a reason for artificialities are intelligently valuing life.

Lao-Tzu