Outsiders Quotes - Page 8

• I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Persons

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• It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Real, America, Littles

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

  Rita Mae Brown

  Class, Suffering, Pariahs

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• Nerds are running the world. Andrew Garfield made a movie [called “The Social Network”] about it. Nerds are no longer pariahs and knowing how to write computer code is longer a [mocked] quality. What was important in those early comics was this notion that Peter Parker is an outsider and how we define that in a contemporary context. That, I think, was one of the challenges for us — getting Peter Parker’s outsider status to be current.

  Marc Webb

  Running, Writing, Thinking

  "‘Spider-Man’ director Marc Webb feels a ‘responsiblity to reinvent’ the hero". Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. July 18, 2011.

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• We as outsiders can't differentiate between Sunni and Shi'ah, but leave it to them and they'll get over the difficulty by some kind of hanky panky, just as the Turks did, and for the present it's the only way of getting over it. I don't for a moment doubt that the final authority must be in the hands of the Sunnis, in spite of their numerical inferiority; otherwise you will have a mujtahid-run, theocratic state, which is the very devil.

  Gertrude Bell

  Running, Hands, Doubt

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• I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wall, Writing, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4517, Delphi Classics

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• The tragedy is that in the name of resisting the internal deterioration of faith and the corruption of the world around them, many Christians - and Christian conservatives most significantly -unwittingly embrace some of the most corrosive aspects of the cultural disintegration they decry. By nurturing its resentments, sustaining them through a discourse of negation toward outsiders, and in cases, pursuing their will to power, they become functional Nietzscheans, participating in the very cultural breakdown they so ardently strive resist.

  James Davison Hunter

  Christian, Names, Tragedy

  "To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World". Book by James Davison Hunter, 2010.

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• We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance, that, like virtually every public construct, is a legacy of a primordial and tribal mentality.

  Jamake Highwater

  People, Legacy, Granted

  Jamake Highwater (1997). “The Mythology of Transgression: Homosexuality as Metaphor”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If an outsider perceives 'something wrong' with a core scientific model, the humble and justified response of that curious outsider should be to ask 'what mistake am I making?' before assuming 100% of the experts are wrong.

  David Brin

  Mistake, Humble, Experts

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• 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.

  Monica Ali

  Trying, Needs, Standing Out

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• In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Thinking, Differences

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

  Rajneesh

  Men, Effort, Celebration

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• There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Foreigners, Antipathy

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

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• There are many outsiders that actively try to halt every natural resource development project in Alaska. Many of these same people have never even been to Alaska, yet they claim to know what's best for us.

  Lisa Murkowski

  Alaska, People, Trying

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

  Alice Hoffman

  Individuality, Common, One Thing

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• I always felt like something of an outsider. But I identified with people up on the screen. That made me feel like I wanted to be up on the screen too. I felt like eventually I would get there.

  Luke Perry

  People, Made, Feels

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

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• But in a crunch, when all our asses are in the sling, it looks like it is easier to deal with the samenesses. When we deal with sameness only, we develop weapons that we use against each other when the differences become apparent. And we wipe each other out - Black men and women can wipe each other out - far more effectively than outsiders do.

  Audre Lorde

  Men, Differences, Black

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• The only advice I can give you… is to examine who you are… Figure out what’s important to you. Know yourselves. Know what’s in your heart. Don’t be swayed by fear or history or the opinions of outsiders. Find your own truth. It will lead you to the things you love.

  J-Ax

  Heart, Giving, Advice

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• Almost all of the stories in The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan are told in the first person, yet, depending on the angle and distance of the narrator, they exert different effects. The best are those in which the speaker never poses as an objective outsider. (...) Other stories are damaged by the urge to distance the narrator.

  Yiyun Li

  Football, Distance, Narrators

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• Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly welcome to newcomers. One of the disagreeable traits of our human nature seems to be to dislike on sight people who come later than the first settlers.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Sight, Long, People

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”

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

  Idina Menzel

  Oddballs, Yeah, Hard

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• There is no place on earth, no day or night, no hour or minute, when one is not a Jew or a woman.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Night, Earth, Hours

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• Such is the nature of an expatriate life. Stripped of romance, perhaps that's what being an expat is all about: a sense of not wholly belonging. [...] The insider-outsider dichotomy gives life a degree of tension. Not of a needling, negative variety but rather a keep-on-your-toes sort of tension that can plunge or peak with sudden rushes of love or anger. Learning to recognise and interpret cultural behaviour is a vital step forward for expats anywhere, but it doesn't mean that you grow to appreciate all the differences.

  Sarah Turnbull

  Mean, Differences, Appreciate

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• The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

  Wes Anderson

  Obsession, Obsessed, Subjects

  "Royal leanings". Interview with Richard Matthews, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 13, 2002.

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• But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm that no outsider, unless steeped from childhood in its endless, even beat, can ever hope to experience it, except only as a bystander might experience a Masai war dance knowing nothing of its music nor the meaning of its steps.

  Beryl Markham

  War, Integrity, Knowing Nothing

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.19, Open Road Media

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