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
Everybody feels like [a misfit] at different points in their life. If you feel like who you are is right for you, then you are beautiful. — Marilyn Manson
I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast. — Meat Loaf
I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere. — Madonna Ciccone
Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it. — Elizabeth Lowell
Why fit in when you were born to stand out? — Dr. Seuss
Crowded hallways, are the loneliest places, for outcasts and rebels,or anyone who just dares to be different. — Hunter Hayes
why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out — Oliver James
You weren't made to fit in. You were born to stand out! — Jim Caviezel
Sometimes I feel like the kid left out - the weirdo with the silver hair that no one likes to talk to. — Emilia Clarke
Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out? — Dr. Seuss
One of the downsides of being special is that you feel out of place wherever you go. — Gavin McInnes
When you're an outsider or a misfit, if you play it smart, your motto should be, 'I'll show 'em. I will show you.' — Wendy Williams
To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group. — Philip Zimbardo
Short Misfit Quotes
All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations. — Marge Piercy
After all, in private, we're all misfits — Lily Tomlin
Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world. — Lois Lowry
Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive. — Alan Rickman
Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it. — Jerry Only
Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it. — Gerald Caiafa
Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in. — Mason Cooley
I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits. — Stephan Jenkins
Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits. — Barry Manilow
Somebody said once 'Follow the money' and that is what it is all about. — Murray Walker
Misfit Image Quotes
Being A Misfit Quotes
There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different. — Daniel Radcliffe
A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary. — Martin E. Marty
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
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
America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed hog enjoys a better life than a creative writer, painter or musician. To be a rabbit is better still. — Henry Miller
Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure. — Henry Adams
Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit. — Patti Smith
Ive felt the pressure of wanting to be known as a young actress rather than just Alisha from Misfits. — Antonia Thomas
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
I should be so lucky to be a misfit. I aspire to be a misfit. — Claire Danes
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
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
The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit! — J. K. Rowling
Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their country that they cannot tolerate negligence. Officers who fail to correct errors or to praise excellence are valueless in peace and dangerous misfits in war. — George S. Patton
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. — Walter Isaacson
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
I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest. — William O. Douglas
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
Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Living in, and promoting a eugenic White society. This means that we take particular care in not only assuring the perpetuation of our precious White Race, but we take deliberate care that the misfits are culled and that each generation advances to higher and more salubrious levels, physically, aesthetically, and mentally. — Ben Klassen
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
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
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
So many of us feel like we're misfits until we finally find our tribe - the other people who are are strange in the same way - and suddenly everything clicks. — Jenny Lawson
We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits. — Mike Vallely
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
Working with Marilyn Monroe on The Misfits (1961) nearly gave me a heart attack. I have never been happier when a film ended. — Clark Gable
Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession. — Marshall Field
Everything in the universe has a purpose. There are no misfits, there are no freaks, there are no accidents. There are only things we don't understand. — Marlo Morgan
Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience. — Patti LuPone
A misfit like me getting anywhere in Hollywood as I somehow have, seemed, certainly at the time of 'Spanking The Monkey,' kind of out of reach, or not a very realistic take. — Jeremy Davies
We are a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.We are the original displaced personalities, concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children. — Herman J. Mankiewicz
It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction. — Jerry Only
Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless. — Willie Nelson
The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families. — Gerald Caiafa
Welcome to the island of misfit toys. — Stephen Chbosky
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
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