The Outsiders Quotes

the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

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

Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.

Every new refugee to a society, whether it's the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the new outsider population, the new other.

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

Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider.

Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.

It's easy to gravitate toward something negative as opposed to something positive, especially if you're an outsider.

Metal is the feeling of being an outsider, but still being part of something huge.

An outsider's point of view is always handy.

I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess.

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

As to describing me as an outsider throughout, and an outsider through and through - I have no reason to disagree.

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

I know what it feels like to be an outsider.

Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation.

I hate people doing an emotional striptease. It's never genuine or they wouldn't drag outsiders m.

London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared.

I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.

The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

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

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

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

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

There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so but behind locked doors there are usually high emotions running.

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

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

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.

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

... love is banality to all outsiders.

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.

I'm in nobody's circle, I've always been an outsider.

let's do it for Johnny

The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile.

I've always been interested in the outsider.

I got born in the wrong family.

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

The free electoral process is one of the things that outsiders envy most about this country. The distinctly American two-party system is perpetuated through that process.

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 feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders