Insane Quotes - Page 13

• The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together we're soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to kill one another.

  Frank Darabont

  Race, Two, Together

  "The human race is insane" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2008.

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• As a species we're fundamentally insane.

  Stephen King

  Species

  "The Mist". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.

  Ruby Wax

  Motivation, Inspiration, People

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• Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; I want to know how to live,' - they would show you the way to the insane asylum.

  Alain de Botton

  Motivation, Inspiration, Oxford

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• I like men who are very cool but also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets. I also like men who have hands with big masculine veins that you can squish and move.

  Jolene Blalock

  Moving, Men, Hands

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Girl, Spices, Spice Girls

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• I've written this song called 'Insania' - it's a mix of Insane and Mania, and even though it's a made up word you instantly know what it means!

  Peter Andre

  Song, Mean, Made

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• I'm a huge Obama fan. I think it's such an unbelievably great thing to have a President who's competent and not insane.

  Randy Cohen

  Thinking, Insecurity, President

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• We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.

  Lizz Winstead

  Political, Elements, Court

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• I’m not much of a fly tier. I can do it—my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying'—and I tie some cool flies that I can’t buy in a fly shop, but other than that, I would no more sit down and tie a dozen hopper patterns than I would do something absolutely insane, like build a rod.

  Jack Ohman

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Resistance, Power Of Now, Power Of Now Book

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.35, New World Library

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• The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.

  Philip K. Dick

  Insanity, Empires, Violence

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a touch insane... You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

  Henry Rollins

  Insanity, Body, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.

  Horace Mann

  Majority, Vote, Hospitals

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.184

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• I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing - it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Mother, Purple, Suits

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• Follow the tugs in your heart. I think that everybody gets these gentle urges and should listen to them. Even if they sound absolutely insane, they may be worth going for.

  Victoria Moran

  Heart, Thinking, Sound

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• We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

  William S. Burroughs

  Leader, Faces, Facts

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• I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Training, Stuff, Normal

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• Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

  Vanna Bonta

  War, World, Matter

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• Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which makes a fetish of sport and professes eroticism as a way of life. A perverted and insane pictorial art, lewd exhibitionistic dancing and jungle music form the spiritual norm of this sector of America's youth.

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Sports, Spiritual, Art

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• To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate—useful and actionable.

  Teresa Amabile

  Ideas, Creative, Appropriate

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• I fell into this business by accident. It wasn't something I ever aspired to be: an actress. It just happened. It has evolved into an insane passion... a creative outlet. But nothing more. It's my hobby... one of the ways I express myself as an artist. And the day it becomes a job... a career... I will quit...

  Shailene Woodley

  Jobs, Passion, Artist

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe. Ah, if an adult could only act as a child does with that insane, playing-at-toy- soldiers concentration!

  Roddy McDowall

  Children, Believe, Boys

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• The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the more we will be able to wall off the flood of illusions disseminated by mass culture and the more we will retain sanity in an insane world.

  Chris Hedges

  Wall, Insane World, Mass Culture

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• The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Men, Revolution, He Man

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