#fitting

I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#different #different ways #fitting #fitting in #i

Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts. ↗

— Bob Lilly

#after #average #ball player #efforts #eight

I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#around #before #dedicate #died #father

I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away. ↗

— Stephen Stills

#away #bedroom #built #chipping #died

I am too much alien and not enough monkey to fit in here. ↗

— Melissa St. Hilaire

#fitting-in #funny #monkey #funny

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

#bordertown #dreams #fitting-in #inspiration #misfits

In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource. ↗

— Jack Dee

#been #comedic #fitting #fitting in #many

You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days. ↗

— Beth Gibbons

#another #come #days #especially #every

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#cannot #content #fitting #fitting in #ideas

How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me? ↗

— Rabih Alameddine

#fitting-in #friends #life #living #relationships