Selected defiance quotes

1. The jabroni beating, pie eating, trail blazing, eye brow raising, the best in the present, future and past, and if ya'll don't like me you can kiss the people's ass!

2. I don't care! I don't have to show anybody my games just because they're a big shot!

3. If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

4. We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

5. I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!

6. If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred me on.

7. Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.

8. I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

9. There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.

10. I have only one eye,- I have a right to be blind sometimes . . . I really do not see the signal!

11. Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs.

12. I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it. Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.

13. It is my last wish to be buried sitting up.

14. It was pretty sad, because for the first time I found how stupid people could be. It sort of made me feel alone in the world. The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

15. You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise.

16. Well I won't back down, no I won't back down. You could stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down.

17. It's this way: being captured is beside the point, the point is not to surrender.

18. Don't soil your pretty little shoes The gutter's deep and red Climb up climb up and ride along with me the tumbrel driver said But she never said a word never turned her head Don't soil your pretty little pants I only go one way Climb up climb up and ride along with me There's no gold coach today But she never said a word never turned her head

19. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum

20. You have already grasped that Sisyphus is the absurd hero. He is, as much through his passions as through his torture. His scorn of the gods, his hatred of death, and his passion for life won him that unspeakable penalty in which the whole being is exerted toward accomplishing nothing. This is the price that must be paid for the passions of this earth. Nothing is told us about Sisyphus in the underworld. Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.

21. It was Trout's fantasy that somebody would be outraged by the footprints. This would give him the opportunity to reply grandly, 'What is it that offends you so? I am simply using man's first printing press. You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,'I am here, I am here, I am here.'

22. I wrote a script and gave it to a guy that reads scripts. And he read it and said he really likes it, but he thinks I need to rewrite it. I said, 'Fuck that, I'll just make a copy.'

23. Hitler expects to terrorise and cow the people of this mighty city: Little does he know the spirit of the British nation, or the tough fibre of the Londoners.

24. London Bridge is safe and sound No matter what you keep repeating Nothing's gonna drag me down To a death that's not worth cheating

25. I'm grateful that I have two middle fingers, I only wish I had more.

26. 'We stated openly that Steven Pagones did it. If we're lying, sue us, so we can go into court with you and prove you did it. Sue us - sue us right now.'

27. 'I stand by all my misstatements.'

28. 'Now you're looking at the world's richest man and I'm black. Kiss my black ass America! Hahaha!'

29. I'm sorry. Actually I'm not. I don't give a fuck.

30. Dave (While At A Tittie Bar) You know what? She had the nerve to tell me that I smell like I've been at the tittie bar......SO THE FUCK WHAT??!!!!

31. Are we not men? We are DEVO!

32. We've been called a 'no-hit wonder.' We don't care.

33. 'Elvis Presley`s talent as a musical artist was double barrelled and more; his voice, on the one hand, was extraordinary for its quality, range and power, as well as being a unique stage performer with instinctive natural abilities in both areas; he was the master of a wide and diverse range of vocal stylings and ventriloquist effects, from the clear tenor of his C&W heroes, to the vibrato of the Gospel singers he loved, his voice invariably possessing an aching sincerity and an indefinable quality of yearning virtually impossible to pigeonhole'.

34. One well-known critic has been pleased to like this extravaganza better than anything I have written. Personally I prefer 'The Offshore Pirate.' But, to tamper slightly with Lincoln: If you like this sort of thing, this, possibly, is the sort of thing you'll like.

35. I do not know Tyrone Power. I fucked him a lot, but I do not know him. Gentlemen, this meeting is over: I don't care to sell your goddamned orange juice.

36. Frances was a rebel when it wasn't fashionable - a free-thinking woman of the '30s and '40s whose outspoken nature, shocking language and anti-social behavior landed her in jails and mental institutions. ~ Rita Rose in The Indianapolis Star (23 January 1983)

37. Like what 'it' does not like.

38. We are your parents' worst nightmare.

39. I wouldn't call us 'emo.' I mean, call us whatever you want. But I'd rather be called 'polka.'

40. Unwilling friend, let not your spite abate; Help me with scorn, and strengthen me with hate.

41. O whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad: Tho' father and mither and a' should gae mad.

42. I will not return! I will not come to an unjust court! Go to hell!

43. The sweet imperious mouth, whose haughty valor Defied all portents of impending doom.

44. Now when I came out, I told you it was just about biggie. Then everybody had to open their mouth with a mother fuckin opinion.Well this is how we gon' do this: fuck Mobb Deep, fuck Biggie, fuck Bad Boy as a staff, record label, and as a mother fuckin crew. And if you want to be down with Bad Boy, Then fuck you too. Chino XL, fuck you too. All you mother fuckers, fuck you too.

45. 'Nobody yells at me. I'm Vincent Kennedy McMahon. I yell at YOU!'

46. 'I will not quit! Not now not ever!' (This was during her latest face run as Smackdown! GM and her feud with her father, Vince)

47. 'Gloria (In Excelsis Deo)': Jesus died For somebody's sins But not mine

48. If I was in Hollywood and I got bitten by a zombie, I would want to stay a zombie and then take down as many people as I could,

49. I don't care if it's the whole world that everything in it, on it, and above it. I...will...not...bend.

50. Was born rough and rugged, addressin the mad public/My attitude was, 'Fuck it,' cause motherfuckers love it

51. When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

52. And I always thought: the very simplest words Must be enough. When I say what things are like Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds. That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself Surely you see that.

53. If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.

54. 'I got a fucking dollar on my god damn forehead, so fuck you.'

55. Oh, I've made love, yeah, I've been fucked, so what? I'm a cartoon, you're a full moon, let's stay up.

56. Ask them if they want me to give it back.

57. Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

58. Foul canker of fair virtuous action, Vile blaster of the freshest blooms on earth, Envys abhorred child, Detraction, I here expose, to thy all-tainting breath, The issue of my brain: snarl, rail, bark, bite, Know that my spirit scorns Detraction's spite.

59. There was this vicious woman [at school], a teacher. If you weren't in her little handpicked clique, you were ridiculed and picked on. She was brutal and unjust. One day she told me to do something, I can't remember what. Her tone was nasty. She got very loud in my face in front of the rest of the class and tried to embarrass me. I saw what she was doing, that she was trying to ridicule me. I turned around and walked away. As I did, I dropped my drawers and mooned her. She went out of her mind. Then of course I was brought before the dean and suspended for a couple of weeks. At that time it was coming anyway. I knew my days were numbered. (2004)

60. He absolutely refused to admit, much less accept, defeat when he was literally beaten on Lake Erie. He was that rara avis in our history, the true hero-patriot. ~ Richard Dillon, in We Have Met the Enemy. (1978)

61. The modern man is . . . certain about his essential virtue . . . [and since] he does not see that he has a freedom of spirit which transcends both nature and reason . . . [he] is unable to understand the real pathos of his defiance of nature's and reason's laws. He always imagines himself betrayed into this defiance either by some accidental corruption in his past history or by some sloth of reason. Hence he hopes for redemption, either through a program of social reorganization or by some scheme of education.

62. 'I am the master of the middle finger!' (WM 21 Gladiator Commercial)

63. Austin: 'IF YOU'RE READY FOR WRESTLEMANIA, GIMME A HELL YEAH!!!! (HELL YEAH!) You damn right, because Stone Cold Steve Austin has been jerked around long enough! And I will say this, with Paul Wight as the special referee, or without him, it really don't make a damn, because that belt is coming with me and that's all I got to say about that. For the last few weeks-- shut your little lips or I'll go down and punch your glass off right now. For the last few weeks, I come out here and I sit and listen to you spit you're little nursery rhymes about 'Jabroni Avenue' or 'Know Your Role Boulevard'. Jesus Christ son, you better get your ass serious because Stone Cold Steve Austin is gonna take his ass to Philadelphia, check right in to the Smack Down Hotel, roll right in to room 3:16, and burn that son of a bitch to the ground! You look at me. Take your little glasses off so I can see your eyeballs, son. Pull 'em off, because I want you to look right here. When that bell rings, and the match is over, you are looking at the next WWF Champion, AND THAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE 'CAUSE STONE COLD SAID SO! As far as right now goes, the big celebration after where Stone Cold is gonna drink a hell of a lotta beer, but I think we oughta share a little pre-match beer RIGHT NOW.'

64. I am not capitulating.