The Outsiders Quotes

I'm a stranger wherever I go, but I'm happy.

Nice plan. Take the gullible outsiders, walk them around for a bit, then feed them to the giant tortoise.

I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.

I always felt an outsider.

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 first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

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

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

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

Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive or negative-they get from the environment.

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

It really helps a comedian to be 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 was always an outsider, proud of being an outsider. I always reveled in the outsiders.

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

I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."

Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable.

To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.

I was a complete outsider in high school.

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

Donald Trump is sort of the first candidate of his type that non-politician, true outsider, was coming to shake up the system.

I don't feel the pressure by outsiders. I'm not someone who's easily influenced by the public.

It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from that culture.

We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders.

I spend as little time with lawmakers as possible. Many are great. And more than you expect want real change. But they're not going to do anything till we, the outsiders, force them to adopt it.

I feel like my friends are in a cult because we're like, 'No outsiders!

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

I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.

I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form.

If we look at the complexity of the challenges facing western societies today, we see that the problems are not really about outsiders, but have their roots much closer to home.

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

You have to be an outsider to write.

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

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

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.

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

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.

There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

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.

Im not a celebrity. I dont take myself too seriously. I know where I stand in the food chain. And no matter how much of an insider I ever become or am, Ill still always be an outsider.

How many times have we brought in an outsider to tell us what we already knew?

I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider.

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

[The Outsiders] was all new to me. It's been fun to be a part of that ride, where it's become on the level of Catcher In The Rye in terms of people's required reading in schools.

The West Wing and The Outsiders are the gifts that keep on giving.

In Milwaukee last month a man died laughing over one of his own jokes. That's what makes it so tough for us outsiders. We have to fight home competition.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Donald Trump is a genuine outsider.

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