The Misfits Quotes

#1. Blessed are the misfits who make their own rules and stick to them for they shall inherit peace of mind

Chikamso C. Efobi

#2. Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. That was the stuff that really got me into music. Song writing wise, bands like Alkaline Trio were very important to me for beginning to write songs.

Andy Biersack

#3. Working with Marilyn Monroe on The Misfits (1961) nearly gave me a heart attack. I have never been happier when a film ended.

Clark Gable

#4. The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new ... is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.

Eric Hoffer

#5. When you feel like an oddball, it never really leaves you. Even now, I'm better around people who are uncomfortable with themselves - the misfits.

Chris Pine

#6. The gays, the kids, the misfits, the freaks, the ones who feel like they don't have a place... you got it. Just be you.

Michelle Visage

#7. The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.

Jerry Only

#8. It's not like that anymore really, but back in the day, nobody would let the Misfits open up for them, not the Ramones, not the Cramps, nobody.

Glenn Danzig

#9. 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

#10. If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'

Roger Rosenblatt

#11. I never felt at home. I stuck outIn New York City, especially in Greenwich Village, down among the cranks and the misfits and the one-lungers and the has-beens and the might've beens and the would-bes and the never-wills and the God-knows-whats, I have always felt at home.

Joseph Mitchell

#12. Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it.

Jerry Only

#13. Consider yourself an official member of the misfits and rebels circle.

Jessica Sorensen

#14. I got to actually tattoo one of the members of The Misfits. The very first tattoo I ever did was this Misfits skull.

Kat Von D.

#15. And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable.

Eli Wallach

#16. I've always identified with the misfits.

Stephan Jenkins

#17. I want to be outside with the misfits, with the rebels, the dreamers, second-chance givers, the radical grace lavishers, the ones with arms wide open, the courageously vulnerable, and among even - or maybe especially - the ones rejected by the Table as not worthy enough or right enough.

Sarah Bessey

#18. I listened to all the Misfits albums growing up and Red Hot Chili Peppers, too.

Jose Gonzalez

#19. That's the pathetic thing about high school. Everyone tries so hard to be something they aren't. It's gotten so I don't know who I am, so how can I even try to be who I am, much less who I'm not?
My problem is that I don't even fit in with the misfits.
I don't fit anywhere.

Katie Alender

#20. I couldn't hope to be in anything better than 'Misfits.' The reaction from fans has been mental. The weirdest thing is when people tell me I'm their inspiration. I can't believe I get fan mail, and loads of free clothes. Adidas sent me lots of stuff; it's wicked!

Lauren Socha

#21. I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am.

Brian Molko

#22. This one is for our crew, but it's also for all the weird girls and word nerds, for all the in-the-middle wickeds and queers and misfits and hell-raisers.

Laura Goode

#23. These are his people, this congregation of misfits, crack addicts, and drunks, the unshaven, unwashed, unemployed, and unwanted.

Lee Strobel

#24. Misfits deal with the double-edged reality of having our differences act as the source of both our challenges as well as our successes.

Tiffany L. Jackson

#25. I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate.

Harlan Ellison

#26. Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their country that they cannot tolerate negligence. Officers who fail to correct errors or to praise excellence are valueless in peace and dangerous misfits in war.

George S. Patton

#27. I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs.

Steve Roper

#28. The true misfits are the ones who don't think they are.

Sometimes the concepts that ground us in quiescent certainty are the same ones that cast us into pelting hailstorms of insurmountable disbelief.

Robyn Alana Engel

#29. One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.

Kobo Abe

#30. I am here, come closer," the old donkey said with her eyes. "I will mother you.

Katherine Dunn

#31. Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their loves. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that care nothing for hope or longing.

Jon Krakauer

#32. Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules - and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.

Kurt Vonnegut

#33. 'Harold and Maude' was a seminal movie for me because it's not only a beautiful love story, but it's also about the moment when misfits find each other.

Stephen Chbosky

#34. It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#35. We took off for the tree line, leaving the wounded soldiers to wonder how they'd been beaten by four misfits and a horse.

Rachel Sharp

#36. Did you know Carrie White is going to the prom?"
Morty blinked. "With who? The Beak?" The Beak was Freddy Holt, another of Ewen's misfits. He weighed perhaps one hundred pounds soaking wet, and the casual observer might be tempted to believe that sixty of it was nose.

Stephen King

#37. It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.

Jerry Only

#38. After years of feeling like a misfit, I've realized that the world is full of other misfits, all of us identifying with Hobbits - - the little guys whom no one else respects. And who quietly end up changing the course of history.

Tess Gerritsen

#39. In the community of living tissues, the uncontrolled mob of misfits that is cancer behaves like a gang of perpetually wilding adolescents. They are the juvenile delinquents of cellular society.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#40. The humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, praised most, while the crank, misfits and malcontents praised least.

C.S. Lewis

#41. I love the idea of creating a sort of nuanced portrait of kids that they're not all perfect. They're kind of misfits but not in a picturesque, hip way, they're really, really kids that are not entirely great.

Guillermo Del Toro

#42. The lost, the lonely, the bicultural misfits with a foot in two worlds and a place in neither.

Don Winslow

#43. We are a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.We are the original displaced personalities, concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children.

Herman J. Mankiewicz

#44. And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world where misfits were welcome.

John Elder Robison

#45. Books offered the promise of a world in which misfits like me could flourish. Within

Chris Offutt

#46. Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo.

Maximillian Degenerez

#47. Guido: She wasn't like any other woman. Stood by me 100%, uncomplaining as a tree.
Roslyn: Maybe that's what killed her.

Arthur Miller

#48. Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to be one of them. Striving for excellence where excellence doesn't matter is the stuff misfits are made of.

Ernie J Zelinski

#49. The permanent misfits can find salvation only in a complete separation from the self; and they usually find it by losing themselves in the compact collectivity of a mass movement.

Eric Hoffer

#50. If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know what the big game have done to deserve it, but they do help to deflect the destructive energies of some of our social misfits.

Hector Hugh Munro

#51. The tech industry used to be home to a disproportionate number of misfits and weirdos. Geeks. Nerds. People who needed to know how machines worked: needed to take them apart, make them better, and put them back together again.

Jon Evans

#52. There was, as she put it, nothing to stop me. So I followed the path of educated misfits through the ages and got a job in a bookshop.

Hari Kunzru

#53. I'm always drawn towards the darker stuff, because I think it's just a lot more interesting. But it's also good fun doing the comedy, and I think that's why 'Misfits' has been great in that way, as you get a really good balance. I think it's best to try and do everything as an actor, really.

Iwan Rheon

#54. I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.

Stephan Jenkins

#55. Civilization is a condition which unsocial misfits impose on the rest of popular, easygoing, family-oriented humanity. Only the miserable, the failures, the outcasts will crouch for days to observe the mating habits of a salamander.

Chuck Palahniuk

#56. Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

Patti LuPone

#57. I've felt the pressure of wanting to be known as a young actress rather than just Alisha from 'Misfits'.

Antonia Thomas

#58. The world turned itself into a better place around him.

Rainbow Rowell

#59. Somehow as children he and Tiger Lily had been shuttled together - both misfits or, as I liked to think of them, strange exotic birds, one too fierce to be hemmed in as a girl, and the other too hesitant to be respected as a boy.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#60. Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.

Auberon Waugh

#61. So many of us feel like we're misfits until we finally find our tribe - the other people who are are strange in the same way - and suddenly everything clicks.

Jenny Lawson