Misfits Quotes - Page 5

• The progress of science is tremendously disorderly, and the motivations that lead to this progress are tremendously varied, and the reasons why scientists go into science, the personal motivations, are tremendously varied. I have said ... that science is a haven for freaks, that people go into science because they are misfits, and that it is a sheltered place where they can spin their own yarn and have recognition, be tolerated and happy, and have approval for it.

  Max Delbruck

  Motivation, Yarn, People

  Oral History Project Interview, California Institute of Technology Archives, p. 87, oralhistories.library.caltech.edu. 1978.

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• We’re all misfits herefrom 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

  Passion, Unique, Differences

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• All is disgust when one leaves his own nature
  and does things that misfit it.

  Sophocles

  Doe, Disgusting

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1957). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new . . . is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.

  Eric Hoffer

  Work, Tasks, Firsts

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Every organization has an allotted number of positions to be filled by misfits.

  Owen Marshall

  Work, Organization, Numbers

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• She was a talker, wasn't she?" Bobby Lee said, sliding down the ditch with a yodel. "She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." "Some fun!" Bobby Lee said. "Shut up, Bobby Lee," The Misfit said. "It's no real pleasure in life.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Fun, Real, Good Woman

  Flannery O'Connor (1971). “The complete stories”

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• Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything off balance. If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness," he said and his voice had become almost a snarl.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Jesus, Voice, House

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• Yeah, well, I guess I feel like all of us misfits need to hang together. At least that way we don't swing along. (Tabitha)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Swings, Together, Needs

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• I knew we’d wear them down,” Eve said. “After all, we really are amazingly cool.” And now it was Eve’s turn for the high five with Shane. “For a bunch of misfit geeks, slackers, and losers.” Which one are you?” Shane asked. She flipped him off. “Oh, right. Loser. Thanks for reminding me.

  Rachel Caine

  Thanks, Geek, Loser

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.1909, Penguin

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• Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Science, Space, Progress

  The Sirens of Titan epigraph (1959)

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• I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate.

  Harlan Ellison

  Acceptance, Good Friend, No Friends

  Harlan Ellison (1989). “Harlan Ellison's watching”

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• Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  World, Strange, Journalism

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Americans are not going to tolerate intimidation, terror and outright acts of war against this nation and its people. And we are especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich ... There can be no place on earth where it is safe for these monsters to rest,or train or practice their cruel and deadly. We must act together - or unilateraly, if necessary - to ensue that these terrorists have no sanctuary, anywhere.

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, War, Practice

  A speech to the American Bar Association after the TWA Flight 847 hijacking, June 14, 1985.

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• Ive felt the pressure of wanting to be known as a young actress rather than just Alisha from Misfits.

  Antonia Thomas

  Pressure, Actresses, Young

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• Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. That was the stuff that really got me into music. Song writing wise, bands like Alkaline Trio were very important to me for beginning to write songs.

  Andy Biersack

  Wise, Song, Writing

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• I don't think we ever sat down in the early days and said "hey lets be a band that wears make up". I think it was just natural for us. We grew up loving stuff like Alice Cooper, Kiss, The Misfits, and the more theatrical stuff. I always loved rock stars. I loved David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, and these people that were larger than life and iconic. I think that is what we always wanted to do.

  Andy Biersack

  Stars, Kissing, Thinking

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• Visually through my work, over and over, I'm trying to create characters that are - to some people they may be monstrous, and I hate that word, because I think they're just unique. Misfits. I purposefully want to present something a little different so that whether people are disturbed by it or not, they can wrestle with it.

  Chris Mars

  Hate, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• More than anything in this world, I wish I had been born rich. It would have made up for everything. I'd still be ugly, sure, but I'd be rich and ugly. I'd still be weak and dim and tongue-tied with women, but I'd be rich enough for them not to care. I'd no longer be a social misfit, I'd be eccentric. And most of all, I'd no longer be what I was, I'd be something different.

  William Lashner

  Wish, Care, Ugly

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• According to the oral tradition of Witches, we were once the priests and priestesses of a peasant Pagan religion. Members of this secret sect met at night beneath the full moon, for these were the "misfits" and "outcasts" who did not fit into mainstream society. Little has changed over the centuries and the Witchcraft community still embraces individuals frequently rejected in mainstream society. These include gays, lesbians, transgendered individuals, and other people with the courage to live their lives authentically in accord with who they are inside their hearts, minds, and spirits.

  Raven Grimassi

  Heart, Gay, Moon

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• A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.

  Martin E. Marty

  Typical, Saint, Culture

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• Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in.

  Mason Cooley

  Giving, Way, Fitting

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• I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am.

  Brian Molko

  Artistic, Social, Cannons

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• I never felt at home. I stuck outIn New York City, especially in Greenwich Village, down among the cranks and the misfits and the one-lungers and the has-beens and the might've beens and the would-bes and the never-wills and the God-knows-whats, I have always felt at home.

  Joseph Mitchell

  New York, Home, Cities

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• It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class.

  Alan Stern

  Class, Earth, Pluto

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