Bullying Quotes - Page 17

• Be sure of yourself, don't let anyone bully you, be a strong and independent woman or boy.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Strong, Independent, Boys

  "Snooki: The Jersey Shore Is Better Than Italy". Interview with Naughty But Nice Rob, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2011.

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• Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.

  Zachary Quinto

  Kids, Gay, Needs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

  Stevie Wonder

  Life, Success, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, People, Autism

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

  Felix Dennis

  America, Definitions, Empires

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• The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Reality, Views, People

  "Between Time and Timbuktu". Movie script by Kurt Vonnegut et al. Preface, 1972.

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• People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying school masters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years. Above all -- we were wet.

  Frank McCourt

  Mother, Father, School

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.

  Leif Enger

  Pie, Peaches, Apologetic

  Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.291, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• There's not a lot of tolerance for people like me... To avoid ignorance and bullying, I've had to hide the fact that I'm a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I've spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this.

  Jon Cryer

  Ignorance, Hair, Ideas

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