Lunatic Quotes - Page 10

• My workspace is a white room with a big computer monitor and a light box. It can be very messy. Sometimes I get into trouble with my husband for that. Then I run around like a lunatic cleaning up and creating the appearance of order.

  Catherine Martin

  Running, Husband, Order

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• Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Broken, Done

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, listed as official categories in the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. England has always lagged a bit behind in discarding outdated terms for the disadvantaged. When I was there in 1980, it was still possible to shop for used clothing at the local Spastic Shop. That is, compared to the United States, where it takes, oh, about twenty-five minutes for a diagnostic euphemism to become a conversational faux pas.

  Mary Roach

  Imbeciles, England, Twenties

  Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.56, Canongate Books

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• And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won’t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.

  Aaron Allston

  Home, Careers, Mind

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• Anyone who would laugh at a recital is probably some sort of lunatic anyway. I mean, only a sick, twisted mind could be that rude and ignorant.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Mean, Sick, Laughing

  "Fictional character: Jerry Seinfeld". "Seinfeld/ The Pez Dispenser", January 1992.

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• I was walking down the street the other day and these construction workers were working on the roof hammering away. One of them told me I was a paranoid lunatic... in morse code.

  Emo Philips

  Construction Workers, Morse Code, Paranoid

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• It was soon evident in my lodgings that I had become a dangerous lunatic, and there would be nothing left to destroy if strong measures were not taken. So I was turned out of the house, but it was only into the garden, where I was allowed to build a small darkroom of oilcloth.

  Henry Peach Robinson

  Strong, Taken, Garden

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• When I was 26, 27 years old I was running a kitchen in New York, and I was a raving lunatic. The older you get, you figure out you don't need to do that. You realize at a certain point, there's a certain gravity to what you say and what you do. If that's not enough, all the yelling in the world is not going to matter.

  Tom Colicchio

  Running, New York, Years

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• There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Movement, Forward Movement, Fringe

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.305, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Judging by opinion polls, Israel has bigger problems than me. It is among the most hated countries on the planet. It should stop acting like a lunatic state. Once it carries on like a normal country, I will be happily redirect my energies elsewhere.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Country, Hate, Crazy

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• Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.

  Unknown

  People, Nihilism, World

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• Does political correctness have a good side? Yes, it does, for it makes us re-examine attitudes, and that is always useful. The trouble is that, with all popular movements, the lunatic fringe so quickly ceases to be a fringe; the tail begins to wag the dog. For every woman or man who is quietly and sensibly using the idea to examine our assumptions, there are twenty rabble-rousers whose real motive is desire for power over others. The fact that they see themselves as antiracists or feminists or whatever does not make them any less rabble-rousers.

  Doris Lessing

  Dog, Attitude, Real

  "Unexamined Mental Attitudes Left Behind By Communism" by Doris Lessing in "Our Country, Our Culture: The Politics of Political Correctness" edited by Edith Kurzweil and William Philips, 1994.

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• Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Home, House

  The Common Reader "Lady Dorothy Nevill" (1925) See Crisp 2; Hemans 3

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• A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars.

  Umberto Eco

  Templars, Sooner Or Later

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• If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

  Romola Garai

  Keys, Hands, Actresses

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• Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Kings, Dark, Castles

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned . . . than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason.

  Philippe Pinel

  Husband, Giving, Romance

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• A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make him a lunatic.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Believe, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2205, Manonmani Publishers

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• Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.

  Gao Xingjian

  Art, Thinking, Superiors

  Gao Xingjian (2000). “Soul Mountain”

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• Saying that, he was suddenly himself again, despite his lunatic hair and eyes: a man whose personal dignity went so deep as to be nearly invisible... It was more than diginity. Integrity? Wholeness? Like a block of wood not carved. The infinite possibility, the unlimited and unqualified wholeness of being of the uncommitted, the nonacting, the uncarved: the being who, being nothing but himself, is everything.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Block, Integrity, Eye

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• America is a lunatic asylum.

  Ezra Pound

  America, Lunatic Asylums, Asylums

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• The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Fringe, Garments

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• I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

  Ezra Pound

  Should Have, Years, Able

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• All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Men, Ideas, Ordinary

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• The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Reform, Movement, Fringe

  'Autobiography' (1913) ch. 7

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