Square Pegs Quotes

#1. Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg.

Paul Collins

#2. You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.

Benjamin Hoff

#3. Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles.

Robert Breault

#4. There was this real fear in doing 'Square Pegs' after getting such a fast ride to glory on 'Saturday Night Live'. I was afraid that the word would be 'peaks early, fails to live up to promise.'

Anne Beatts

#5. About half of all design patterns out there [ ... ] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into someones static type system: recipes for pounding square pegs into round holes

Steve Yegge

#6. It's Square Pegs," Georgie said, "plus My So-Called Life, plus Arrested Development." If Seth were here, he'd add, "Plus some show that people actually watched." And

Rainbow Rowell

#7. Deborah Tedone, Director of Square Pegs/Asperger's Support Group for Adults in Rochester, NY. Deborah says so eloquently what all parents of AS girls need to hear.

Rudy Simone

#8. I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

Laura Benanti

#9. If you want good luck; you must go out there and search for that luck!! Because luck is waiting for you to look for it.

Temitope Owosela

#10. Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes ... the ones who see things differently ... Rock on!

Steve Jobs

#11. Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

Aldous Huxley

#12. Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Samuel Johnson

#13. People going in the wrong direction will get like that. Round pegs just don't fit in square holes.

J.R. Ward

#14. I might be shy, but in the field, where I have to do my work, I do it. I let my bat speak for myself.

Vladimir Guerrero

#15. I think prejudice has gotten to a point where a lot of people hold biases in their mind and don't even realize that they're doing it, because it's deeply ingrained in the fabric of what it means to be an American.

Keith Stanfield

#16. Have you ever looked at your body without the lens of your colonized mind?

Key Ballah

#17. Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.

Ken Kesey

#18. We are supposed to be different. Do not try to put round pegs in square holes. When people look at us, believe in yourself.

Manoj Arora

#19. Diet plays in my opinion an important role during pregnancy

David Downing

#20. I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.

Susan Rothenberg

#21. I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound,

Franz Liszt

#22. Van Dusen emphasizes that our common conception of the mentally ill is flawed. The majority of them, he says, are not "raving lunatics" as one might think. "Most of these people have become entangled in inner processes and simply fail to manage their lives well.

Louis Proud