Insane Quotes - Page 11

• I have been insane on the subject of money-making all my life.

  Cornelius Vanderbilt

  Making Money, Subjects, Has Beens

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• There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Beautiful, Sleep, Typewriters

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• It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons.

  Henri Michaux

  Intellectual, Pay, Tradition

  Henri Michaux, Robin Magowan (2001). “Ecuador”, p.57, Northwestern University Press

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• This [Scientology] is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become saner. By its use the thousand abilities Man has sought to recover become his once more.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Use, Lame

  "Scientology: A History Of Man". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, 1952.

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• The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long rendered obsolete, our language in the future will change to a saner language where we have no argument in it, 'can there be such a language?' there is, when engineers talk to each other, it's not subject to interpretation, they use math, they use descriptive systems, if I interpreted what another engineer said in the way I think he meant it: you couldn't build bridges, dams, power transmission lines. The language has to have meaning

  Jacque Fresco

  Math, Thinking, Bridges

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• The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are created equal: the dead are innocent, the killers monstrous, the surrounding politics insane or nonexistent...The anonymous dead and their anonymous killers become their own context. The horror becomes absurd.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Political, Information, Killers

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• I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else

  Indra Nooyi

  Organization, Important, Details

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• Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life Besides, perfectionism will ruin your writing, blocking inventiveness and playfulness and life force (these are words we are allowed to use in California).

  Anne Lamott

  Block, Writing, California

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.28, Anchor

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• Management philosophy: Pay attention to the vital fiew and ignore the trivial many. I could go insane if I obsessed over every little details of all my companies.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Philosophy, Details, Attention

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• Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane.

  Nathanael West

  Men, Order, Emotion

  Nathanael West (2012). “The Dream Life of Balso Snell”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• It's insane, the internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's totally out of control.

  Terry Richardson

  Cancer, People, Want

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• What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act of defiance against mans fall and an assertion that he return to the Garden of Eden? For the artists are the first men.

  Barnett Newman

  Fall, Men, Garden

  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Barnett Newman, Lawrence Alloway (1966). “Barnett Newman, the stations of the cross, lema sabachthani”

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• The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

  William Vickrey

  Depression, Holy Grail, Economy

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• Be not held back by fear's insane insistence that sureness lies in doubt. I am not doubtful, but certain. The miracle is always there. I will see them in the light.

  Helen Schucman

  Lying, Light, Miracle

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• Flirt!'s mascara is insane - I don't need false lashes when I wear it.

  Heather Morris

  Flirting, Needs, Mascara

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• Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, And Love, Neglect

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1319, Delphi Classics

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• I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.

  Kristin Davis

  Mean, Snakes, Pet

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• Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Directors, Different, Producers

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• In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.

  Kelly Miller

  Germany, Bismarck, Asylums

  Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights”

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• Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them, and in doing so, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.

  Wayne LaPierre

  School, Gun, Law

  National Rifle Association Press Conference Announcing "National School Shield" Program Following the Newton, Connecticut Shootings, delivered 21 December 2012

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• What once made you safe now drives you insane.

  Ruby Wax

  Safe, Made

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• Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.

  Scott Ian

  Rocks, Guy, Zappa

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• When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects of our daily lives – it’s unfaked folk art. The dancers, crashing wave upon wave into those falls, have a happy insane spirit that recalls a unique moment in American life – the time we did the school play or we were ready to drown at a swimming meet. The last time most of us were happy in that way.

  Arlene Croce

  Art, Fall, School

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• All sin is a form of insanity. Satan is the most insane being of all because he still believes he can defeat God

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Believe, Insanity, Satan

  Edwin Louis Cole (1992). “On becoming a--real man”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Funny, Humorous, Theatre

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.3, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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