Maverick Quotes

If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.

I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.

I'm very different from other politicians.

I do have to give it up for Sarah Palin on one account. She is brave.

Everybody in the industry thinks I'm the crazy person.

Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.

I think I'm not really into the handsome, chivalrous knight; I like the bad boys.

I'm an outsider by instinct.

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

Without putting words in anybody's mouth, I think that Roddy has a reputation for being a rebel. I don't think that's a big secret.

I've always tended to play people who relish playing against the rules.

Really, what's not to love in John McCain, satire-wise? As if he had not already been good enough to us, then came his nomination of Sarah Palin. Here, truly, was a gift from the gods of satire.

I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.

To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.

Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down.

I'm not a conventional guy. I've never been a conventional guy.

To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys.

Me, I like to go against the grain.

I've always been driven to buck the system.

I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.

I loved 'Top Gun.' I watched it all growing up.

I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul Newman.

Rebel, renegade, must stay paid.

I feel like I'm not a traditional person.

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