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Quotes of the Day for 5 February 2005 - Outlaws

Myra Maybelle Shirley was born near Carthage, Missouri on this day in 1848. That was the frontier in those days, and an area of contention between the Union and the South. She had some schooling in Carthage, but was running with the James-Younger gang before she was twenty. She lived with at least eight notorious outlaws and bandit, and married three of them including Sam Starr, from whom she acquired the name she is widely known as. It's not known if she participated in any of the violent acts of her lovers and their friends, but she certainly acted as a fence for the horses they stole. She also developed significant legal skills which she used to keep her men out of prison. After her death in 1889, the National Police Gazette exaggerated and romanticized Belle Starr's career, and she was known as the female Jesse James, the Bandit Queen, and Queen of the Outlaws.

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
     - Gertrude Stein, 1874 - 1946

The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the "outlaw", the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.
     - Michel Foucault, 1926 - 1984

The boys dressed themselves, hid their accoutrements, and went off grieving that there were no outlaws any more, and wondering what modern civilization could claim to have done to compensate for their loss. They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.
     - Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910

It's round the world I've traveled;
  it's round the world I've roamed;
but I've yet to see an outlaw
  drive a family from its home.
     - Woody Guthrie, 1912 - 1967

Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
     - James Joyce, 1882 - 1941

All human advances occur in the outlaw area.
     - R. Buckminster Fuller, 1895 - 1983

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