Island Of Misfit Quotes & Sayings

He's always been attracted to broken things. He was the kind of boy who talked the bad girls through their problems, who defended them and didn't take advantage. He was sensitive to his stuffed animals' feelings, rotating their position on his bed so that a new plush animal would occupy pride of place at his pillowside every night. Soon I became first and foremost on that pillow; princess of the island of misfit toys. — Jalina Mhyana

I had to get a driver's license and drive to St. Louis to find the punk-rock scene that was happening there. And there was a punk-rock scene. It was sweet. It was real. It was like everywhere else in the county. It was a handful of people who were feeling the same pull, and, of course, it was like the Island of Misfit Toys in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer [1964]. Just the freaks, the fags, the fat girls, the unbelievable eccentrics . — Michael Stipe

I never want to travel while I'm on vacation anymore. The only vacations I want to take now are ones where I just go and sit somewhere. — Hamilton Leithauser

Why do I suddenly feel like I'm on the Island of Misfit Toys? — Allison Pang

I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity. — Olivia Wilde

Welcome to the island of misfit toys — Stephen Chbosky

Make sure you want it enough. — Francis Kingdon Ward

So here we sit on the island of misfit lovers. The broken, the maimed, the malformed, who still, all sensible evidence to the contrary, believe in love, crave love. — Isabel Sharpe

This, she reflected, in a continuation of her earlier train of thought, was presumably how religions got started, and must be the reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts. They know that people there are at their most vulnerable and perplexed, and ready to accept any kind of guidance. — Douglas Adams

I always thought it would be cool to go to the island of misfit toys. — Camren Bicondova

Aidan had compared Bellingham to the Island of Misfit Toys, a sanctuary for the unwanted. But the problem, as I saw it, was that putting this many defective kids together only created more trouble. — Amber Dermont

We are the Island of Misfit Toys, all broken or smashed in some way. — Corrine Jackson

I'd never go onstage in my life without fully intending to do the best show you've ever seen. — Steven Van Zandt

There's a heart-wrenching scene in Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the old stop-motion Christmas TV special, that has always resonated with me. After his run-in with the Abominable Snowman, Rudolph and his buddies seek asylum on the Island of Misfit Toys, a haven for crappy, deformed, and unwanted toys presumably built by an elf with substance abuse issues. There's the choo-choo train with square wheels, the water pistol that shoots jelly, the cowboy riding an ostrich, the white elephant with pink polka dots, the infelicitously named Charlie-in-the-Box. "Hey we're all misfits, too!" Rudolph squeals to his newfound friends, and everyone breaks into song. I cry every time I see it. — Anonymous

Before you can find God, you must lose yourself. — Baal Shem Tov