Craziness Quotes - Page 7

• In the craziness of our world, it takes tremendous effort to find a quiet place. It takes time to quiet your mind and your heart before the Lord.

  Francis Chan

  Heart, Our World, Effort

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.213, David C Cook

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• Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about.

  Kenneth Koch

  Writing, Silence, Cages

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• I very easily decide in certain situations that I'm an outsider. That's just my own craziness. I think that I have sympathy for those characters who are like that, but I love it when the humor comes from a character who is serious about his situation - only the way he's thinking about it is all wrong, or the ways he's solving his problems are never going to work.

  Jonathan Coulton

  Character, Thinking, Outsiders

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• When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.

  Margaret Atwood

  Women, Mean, Hair

  "Ophelia Has a Lot to Answer For". Speech at the Stratford Festival, September 1997.

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• A Bit of Craziness Is Good for Business

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Business, Bits

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• You have to be in good shape, basically. And then, you have to have a certain craziness, if you're going to do some of the action things.

  Antonio Banderas

  Shapes, Action, Certain

  "Antonio Banderas Talks THE EXPENDABLES 3, the Changes He Made to His Character, PUSS IN BOOTS 2, Working with Terrence Malick, and More". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. May 7, 2014.

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• How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust. And against that the jaw sets. The more I fear my own insanity the more I must punish yours.

  Kate Millett

  Crazy, Insanity, Lust

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.68, University of Illinois Press

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• Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.

  Joan Didion

  Grief, Interesting, Sanity

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• I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories - science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mean, Wrestling, Hysteria

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• No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Goats, Matter

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.140, A&C Black

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