Insane Quotes - Page 19

• 'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Israel

  George Mikes (1969). “The Prophet Motive: Israel Today and Tomorrow”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• At the height of rush hour, people on the London underground actually say "excuse me." Imagine what would happen if you tried an insane stunt like that on the New York City subway. The other passengers would take it as a sign of weakness, and there'd be a fight over who got to keep your ears as a trophy.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, New York, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.104, Crown Archetype

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can get up feeling rotten, with a hangover, or with-with actual pain, and-and if he gets to work, the first thing he knows, he don't remember that pain, that hangover-he's too busy.

  William Faulkner

  Pain, Hangover, Thinking

  5 Copy quote

• Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.

  Justin Halpern

  Book, Writing, Sometimes

  8 Copy quote

• So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves.

  Marie Osmond

  Mother, Baby, Taken

  5 Copy quote

• Most sane people think that no insane person can reason logically. But this is not so.

  Clifford Whittingham Beers

  Thinking, Insane Person, People

  Clifford Whittingham Beers (2015). “A Mind That Found Itself”, p.42, Sheba Blake Publishing

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been suspended with respect to the insane. Go to see them, treat them sanely, write to them, keep them informed about the home circle; let not your devotion flag, nor accept any repulse.

  Clifford Whittingham Beers

  Home, Writing, Relatives And Friends

  Clifford Whittingham Beers (2015). “A Mind That Found Itself”, p.46, Sheba Blake Publishing

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Best Love, Winning, Answers

  11 Copy quote

• I'm very grounded - that's how I would put it. If you met my mother, you'd probably say the same thing about her. I had a very sane upbringing, though some very insane things happened.

  Tracy Pollan

  Mother, Mets, Grounded

  "Oprah Talks to Michael J. Fox & Tracy Pollan". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 15, 2001.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.

  Jonathan Ames

  Beautiful, Book, Role Models

  "'Bored to Death' creator Jonathan Ames". Interview with Robert Lloyd, latimesblogs.latimes.com. November 14, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.

  Nellie Bly

  Thinking, Release, Keepers

  Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.5, Nellie Bly

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.

  Nellie Bly

  Desire, Asylums, Creatures

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.6, Golgotha Press

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're certainly very nice to directors. I can't say the same about producers, who I found difficult, paranoid, and certifiably insane, mostly.

  Nigel Cole

  Nice, Directors, Hollywood

  5 Copy quote

• I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.

  Neko Case

  Country, Hate, Independent

  4 Copy quote

• You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Book, House, Trying

  7 Copy quote

• I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over.

  John Avlon

  Party, Believe, Responsibility

  5 Copy quote

• I love MySpace; it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I'm not a poster girl for them.

  Lily Allen

  Girl, Jobs, Couple

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane. It's only half past twelve but I don't care, it's 5 O'clock somewhere.

  Alan Jackson

  Strong, Past, Alcohol

  14 Copy quote

• What are you doing son, you're gonna drive yourself insane. You'll never find the sunshine, when you're following the rain.

  Tim McGraw

  Family, Rain, Sunshine

  4 Copy quote

• He was removed from jail and placed in a place for the insensitive and insane.

  Johnny Cash

  Order, Law, Jail

  9 Copy quote

• It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane.

  Puff Daddy

  Crazy, Being Crazy, Okay

  37 Copy quote

• In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.

  Edie Falco

  Laughter, Celebration, Household

  4 Copy quote

• On the one hand, we're constantly told about recycling and cutting back, and on the other hand we have to buy the next gadget that comes along three weeks after the last one you bought. It's absolutely insane. We've been suckered into buying and buying and upgrading and upgrading. We're being given two very different mantras at the moment, I think.

  Martin Freeman

  Cutting, Thinking, Hands

  "Martin Freeman: 'I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised'". Interview with Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2010.

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think everyone thinks their family is insane, and every family is insane. There is no real normal.

  Seth Gabel

  Real, Thinking, Normal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Ideas, Sandwiches, Passionate

  8 Copy quote