Gary Numan Quotes

I got beat up my whole life.

I was beaten up wherever I went, and people shouted at me and cursed me and threw things at me.

I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.

I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.

I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.

'Gut' was my nickname. And I was picked on terribly by many, many kids.

In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

I got bullied in high school. A lot of girls were so mean to me because their boyfriends wanted to hang out with me and my girls, so they pretty much bullied me to the point where I was crying at night.

I never caught on to being a bully.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

When you're a little fat boy in any kind of school, you're just persecuted something awful.

I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.

I used to beat up kids and bite kids and do stuff all the time.

These good Christians do not have the courage to face me. They follow my children around and shout at them, "Your father is a mass murderer" and other terrible epithets.

There was great persecution in many places, both by imprisoning, and by breaking up of meetings. At a meeting about seven miles from London, the rude people usually came out of several parishes round about, to abuse Friends, and often beat and bruised them exceedingly. One day they abused about eighty Friends that went to that meeting out of London, tearing their coats and cloaks from off their backs, and throwing them into ditches and ponds; and when they had besmeared them with dirt, they said they looked like witches.

I would hate it if my four boys were bullied as I was.

I was different. I got beat up every day.

Bullies now aren't just jocks. They're rich kids in the nice cars with the fancy clothes.

My classmates could see I was not similar. So they made me their scapegoat. They hit me or locked me in the toilets. During the break, I would take refuge in the chapel, or I would arrange to stay alone in the classroom.

I was bullied at school. The black girl in Central Falls, Rhode Island, in 1973. There'd be 8 or 10 boys; I would count them as I was running.

Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those - in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed.

I was bullied in high school because I looked different.

I was brutally bullied in school. I had short hair and buck teeth and kids would call out to me in the most nasty ways possible.