Outsider Quotes

What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart. (Learned Hand)
As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider. View quote
Shawn Ashmore
I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group. View quote
Anne Rice
I've been such an outsider my whole life. View quote
Thom Mayne
For a variety of reasons, I have always felt myself an outsider. I don't know how to classify myself in economics. I am a loner. I do not like groupthink, which, if anything, has become more important in economics. In addition, a lot of the values I hold are not the mainstream values in the profession. View quote
James Heckman
I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider. View quote
Lasse Hallstrom
The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life. View quote
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically. View quote
Geoffrey Rush
You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. View quote
Robert Frost
Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort. View quote
Anne Rice
Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame. (Ville Valo)
I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept. View quote
Colin Wilson
Judge and prosecutor had hammered it home that Lady Chatterly was an immoral woman, that she had had sexual relations before marriage, that she had committed adultery under her husband's roof; as if these charges somehow disqualified her from participation in serious literature. Indeed, there were long periods of the trial during which an outsider might well have assumed that a divorce case was being heard. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider. View quote
Robert Crumb
... conferences with open attendance are very important for the stimulation of young people or other people who are new in the field. ... The field of high-energy physics is, as you know, very strongly in the hands of a clique and it is hard for an outsider to enter. View quote
Victor Frederick Weisskopf
I've always felt quite like an outsider. I don't really belong in the mainstream, and I quite like that. View quote
Nick Lowe
If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you. View quote
Tim Burton
I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider. View quote
Isaac Marion
I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through. View quote
Eric McCormack
I don't think I'm an outsider at all. View quote
Christina Ricci
When I came to faith, I thought I would have to stop being an actor, because it's all about artifice and manipulation. But we're living in a world where God doesn't really have an influence, unless it's fundamentalists, so I'll always be an outsider because of my faith. And when you think about it, faith and acting are all about stories, so the two are not mutually exclusive. (Tamsin Greig)
As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there. View quote
Ben Mendelsohn
Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants. View quote
Chris Crutcher
As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say. View quote
Connie Nielsen
The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do. View quote
Carlisle Floyd