A Quote by Alan Rickman

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

Alan Rickman

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Active Appeals Maverick Me More Passive Than Which Word

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Alan Rickman
British - Actor
February 21, 1946 - January 14, 2016

Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.

Van Morrison

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

I should be so lucky to be a misfit. I aspire to be a misfit.

Claire Danes

The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion.

Kevin Patterson

I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.

Sonny Bono

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

Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation, when you are passive, sitting still.

Frederick Lenz

Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn one who won't listen, who insists, who chooses preference or the spirited guess over yardsticks or even history. I suspect this maverick is somewhat what the soul is, or at least that the soul lives close by and companionably with its agitating and inquiring force.

Mary Oliver

Being fat is the absolute nadir of the misfit. You're a misfit because nothing fits. You don't fit in. You're not fit. You're fat. Fat doesn't have the poetic cachet of alcohol, the whiff of danger in the drug of choice. You're just fat. Being fat is so un-American, so unattractive, unerotic, unfashionable, undisciplined, unthinkable, uncool. It makes you invisible. It makes you conspicuous.

Claudia Shear

Some people are just more prepared to take risks than others. I grew up a gambler. That's my name: Maverick.

Maverick Carter

Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.

Gary Hamel

There is no 'Top Gun 2' in which Maverick is not the starring role.

Christopher McQuarrie

I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs.

Steve Roper

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

I was a friend during school time, but not much after that. By the time I got to BYU, I was a social mess, an absolute misfit. There is not a shyer, more pathetic kid who stepped on that BYU campus than me.