Simone Elkeles Quotes

So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.

You can shut the fuck up, or you can fire me

Tell the House of Lords to go to hell.

If I played today, I'd stay in trouble. I'd be in the commissioner's office all the time, I guess. I'd be everywhere - including where I wasn't supposed to be.

The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.

Do you—do you think I want to—do you think I give a—I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY!" Harry roared. "You will," said Dumbledore sadly. "Because you are not nearly as mad at me as you ought to be. If you are to attack me, as I know you are close to doing, I would like to have thoroughly earned it.

I got a parking ticket one time in L.A. and I was furious about it. I was trying to prove a point to the guy who gave it to me and I put it in my mouth and chewed it up. And the guy just kept watching me, like, "Yeah?" He didn't think I was going to finish the job. So then I swallowed it. The good news is that paper is not a big deal if you eat it.You'd be full, but you could eat the phone book. So that was the weirdest thing: a parking ticket.

I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules.

Kicking a police car? Really?' Caleb shrugged. 'Car offended me. It was sitting right where I wanted to stand. What would you do?

I was a real rebel. I got expelled.

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

Don't tell me to watch the beat. You watch me.

If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.

I know the law... I am it's greatest transgressor.

I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.

I can raise more hell in jail than out.

Screw the cabinet and the rest of those. As far as I’m concerned, I’ve made the speech now and let the rest of them – if they like it, fine. But no more suckin’ around. From now on they come to me. I’m sick of the whole bunch.

I was set to confront the might of the imperial empire with an M-1 carbine and enough hate to topple the world.

The way I knew I was right about something was the kids got angry. That's very important: you touch that anger.

Rules that are not stringently upheld are more likely to get broken.

I just want to fight the world. Fight the system. Fight everybody.

It's natural to want to rebel against what your parents do.

You really dug your own grave,” he mutters. “And I’m going to bury you in it.” “Say that louder,” I tell him, under my breath. “I dare you.