Misfits Quotes - Page 4

• All of us are subjected to somebody else's power at some point. So once in a while you kiss ass. So what? Either you make your peace with that early, or you end up living your life as a crank and a misfit.

  Sue Grafton

  Kissing, Live Your Life, Ass

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"H" is for Homicide”, p.26, Macmillan

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• Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos-a cult of two with fallible gods.

  Diane Ackerman

  Inspirational, Couple, Jigsaw Puzzles

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit in, fit in with other people, and thus we must invent or find the means through communication to satisfy as well as resolve conflicting desires and instincts.

  Jack Zipes

  Communication, Mean, People

  Jack Zipes (2012). “The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre”, p.2, Princeton University Press

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• We''re all misfits here,” he says, almost proudly. “That's why I started this squat, after all.  For people like us, who don't fit in anywhere else.  Halfies and homos and hopeless romantics, the outcast and outrageous and terminally weird.  That's where art comes from, Jimmy, my friend.  From our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions.  From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.

  Terri Windling

  Art, Passion, Unique

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• Great. Now the queen thought I was a misfit, too.

  Kiera Cass

  Queens

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• Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their loves. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that care nothing for hope or longing.

  Jon Krakauer

  Thinking, Alaska, Long

  "Into the Wild". Book by Jon Krakauer, 1996.

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• I love stories about misfits and underdogs.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Underdog, Stories, Love Story

  "Elizabeth Banks Talks PITCH PERFECT, Returning for THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE, TINK, and LEGO: THE PIECE OF RESISTANCE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2012.

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• Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to be one of them. Striving for excellence where excellence doesn't matter is the stuff misfits are made of.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Mistake, People

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• I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?

  Selma Blair

  Thinking, Mouths, Sometimes

  "A Conversation With Selma Blair". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. March 30, 2004.

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• I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

  Jenna Fischer

  Book, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2011.

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• Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Grief, Expression, Laughing

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.104, The Floating Press

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• I had My Little Ponies. I was obsessed with the idea of a creature that was born with something magical that sort of made them the misfit in the world of the stallion. I’m actually quite obsessed with unicorns. They are in essence a mythical creature. The unicorn is born magical and it’s not the unicorn’s fault and it doesn’t make it any more or less special or any less unique but it can’t help that it was born with that magic.

  Lady Gaga

  Unique, Ideas, Essence

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• You put an old Misfits record on, and it sounds like it came out yesterday.

  Gerard Way

  Yesterday, Sound, Records

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• There's no doubt I was a bit of a misfit in the Hollywood of the forties. The race for glamour left me far behind. I didn't really want to keep up. I wanted my stardom without the usual trimmings. Because of this, I was branded a rebel at the very least. But I don't regret that for a minute. My appetite was my own and I simply wouldn't have it any other way.

  Veronica Lake

  Regret, Race, Doubt

  Veronica Lake, Donald M. Bain (1971). “Veronica”

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• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

  Ian Fleming

  Sex, Confused, Men

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• I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be.

  Martha Wainwright

  Mother, Adults, Kind

  "Martha Wainwright On New Motherhood, And A Mother Lost". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. November 25, 2012.

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• When I was young, I wasn't a misfit or anything. I had friends in all the different social groups. But I had issues - just personal issues, insecurities and other things that had happened in my life.

  Steve Vai

  Issues, Insecurity, Groups

  Interview with Alan Di Perna, www.guitarworld.com. November 30, 2012.

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• Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting.

  Kristin Davis

  Running, Thinking, Blonde

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• And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world where misfits were welcome.

  John Elder Robison

  World, Welcome, Scene

  John Elder Robison (2010). “Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's”, p.96, Random House

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• Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession.

  Marshall Field

  Occupation, Natural, Bent

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• I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.

  William O. Douglas

  People, Salvation, Protest

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• If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know what the big game have done to deserve it, but they do help to deflect the destructive energies of some of our social misfits.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Animal, Games, Energy

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

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• Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Wall, Pain, Media

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• Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.

  Auberon Waugh

  Emotional, Feelings, Overcoming

  Auberon Waugh (1986). “Another Voice: An Alternative Anatomy of Britain”

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• Mr. Huston (directed Marilyn in Asphalt Jungle and The Misfits) was an exciting looking man. He was tall, long-faced, and his hair was mussed. He interrupted everybody with outbursts of laughter as if he were drunk. But he wasn’t drunk. He was just happy for some mysterious reason, and he was also a genius – the first I had ever met

  Marilyn

  Laughter, Men, Hair

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