Outsiders Quotations | Page 2

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

The outsider is not sure who he is. He has found an “I”, but it is not his true “I”.’ His main business is to find his way back to himself.

Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.

It seems to me that this debate, whether Islam is a religion of peace or not, really, it's irrelevant for outsiders. It's for Muslims to decide whether it's a religion of peace or not.

The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.

We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.

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

I no longer represent any organized religion. I'm not Catholic. I'm not Christian. I'm saying this because I have to be an outsider for Christ.

Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an outsider, period.

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.

What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.

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

I've always felt like my nose is pressed to glass. I always feel a little bit like an outsider.

We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves.

We kind of felt like outsiders there, but we stuck together. I'll be very happy to finally play in New Orleans again.

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.

We feel like outsiders so if they want to rank us as outsiders then that suits us fine,

Big companies know that not all ideas come from one pool or one source of people, so they're always looking for outsiders to come up with opportunities they may not have thought of. It's a fresh source of inspiration.

Corporation spending decisions are driven far more by taxes than outsiders realize. If there's a way to save money by utilizing this tax break, they'll do it.

Despite outsiders being invited to write software, the iPhone thus remains tightly tethered to its vendor - the way that the Kindle is controlled by Amazon.

You're talking about the outsiders in society and how they deal with it and how they justify what they do. I can relate to that.

They're not very trusting of outsiders -- at first he really didn't want us there.

Its easier for outsiders to be hard-nosed with the former parents of these companies. They're simply less bound by the fairly long, shared history.

It is outrageous that outsiders can't file complaints, since Congress has demonstrated its unwillingness to police its own conduct.

It's not surprising that he was emotional. It was a long time coming for him. You have to look up to someone like that. He told us never to second-guess ourselves, and not to believe what outsiders were saying about us. We want to go out and play hard the rest of the season for him.

It's laid back here. Outsiders sometimes think we're lazy. But we have a passion for our work, and we have fun doing it.

It's become much more a part of the community now. The positive comments from outsiders have helped the community embrace it even more.

I want to be like Tom Cruise from The Outsiders and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.

Skaters, I think they tend to be outsiders who seek a sense of belonging, but belonging on their own terms, and real respect is given by how much we take what other guys do, these basic tricks, 360 flips, we take that, we make it our own, and then we contribute back to the community the inner way that edifies the community itself.

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.

I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president.

It wasn't easy for me to start in Bollywood because I was an outsider.

I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.

Im not an American but I have always had the outsiders respect for the American people and the American way.

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

I don't think I'm an outsider at all.

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.

We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.

The one who tried too hard, the outsider, the oddball. Yeah, that was me.

I always felt an outsider.

I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.

Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

I think that growing up very poor in a very wealthy town gave me a sense of being an outsider, and I hated it when I was growing up.

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.

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.

Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

We're outsiders, and so when we walk through the city, we're there and not there at the same time, participating and observing simultaneously.

I've grown up watching a lot of Western genre films on TV, and America is not just a country, but it's one of the most important countries in the world, and examining the process of how this nation came to be, it's an important thing, even for outsiders.

I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

The Ocaina and many of the other indigenous peoples of the Amazon were nearly wiped out during the rubber boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Outsiders came into the jungle, enslaved the tribes to harvest the rubber and killed those that resisted.

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

When I was about 11, 12, we moved to Jersey City. Everywhere I go I'm an outsider.

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.

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.

I've always felt quite like an outsider. I don't really belong in the mainstream, and I quite like that.

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

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.

Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.

I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

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

Usually the Indian people are outsiders who have to look up at the people who look down.

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.

Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable.

For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.

I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.

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

It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.

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.

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

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

You have to be an outsider to write,

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider ...

I'll bring in outsiders to evaluate state agencies. They can sometimes see what we can't.

Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.

Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.

I think that The Outsiders was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.

let's do it for Johnny

You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you...

It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.

They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.

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

Republican politicians are contributed to heavily by climate change, global warming, environmentalist wackos. That's how they're brought on board with this, and that's why an outsider like Trump is so appealing to so many people.

I'm not an insider. I'm not on the board. I'm an outsider. That implies a certain kind of separation ... because the company can't, without an appropriate nondisclosure and trading rules, share confidential data with me that it would not share with any other shareholder. You could say that implies a certain kind of separation.

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

Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

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.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

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

Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they dont even talk - sometimes not even with their girlfriend or boyfriend or friends - about what they are doing.

I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider.

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

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

The notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore. It's about standing there, holding something up. It's not pulling away.

The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with.