Insane Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• By the tons it is coming into this country - the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but the very heart and soul of every human being who once becomes a slave to it in any of its cruel and devastating forms. Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters. Hasheesh makes a murderer who kills for the love of killing out of the mildest mannered man who ever laughed at the idea that any habit could ever get him.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Country, Heart, Cutting

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• The Constitution of the United States. It's still the best document of its kind, and written into it are exactly the kind of protections that ensure that no person or group of persons, no matter how diabolical or insane, can hijack the country for much longer than a decade.

  John Roderick

  Country, Groups, United States

  "How About a Little Hope?" by Litsa Dremousis, www.esquire.com. July 30, 2007.

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• It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Dying, Criminals, World

  "Girl, Interrupted". Book by Susanna Kaysen, 1993.

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• A lot of people want to have market share numbers, lots of users, because that's how they view their self worth. For me, one of the most important things for Linux is having a big community that is actively testing new kernels; it's the only way to support the absolute insane amount of different hardware we deal with.

  Linus Torvalds

  Self Worth, Views, Numbers

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• You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

  Bill Bryson

  Couple, Cities, Islands

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.15, VNR AG

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• Ultimately the most profound problems with psychotherapy have always been that instead of possessing any contrarian or transcendent values to enable it to produce insights countervailing against our dysfunctional and incoherent and humanly destructive culture, its "therapists" have been virtually all shills or agents for this culture, trying to accommodate their patients to a fundamentally unhealthy and insane way of life.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Profound, Healthy

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• As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and insane environment is of itself not "health" but sickness and insanity.

  James Agee

  Education, Sick, Insanity

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.274, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was a ludicrous, insane situation in which modern fighting men, possessed all of the highly destructive engines of war, were ordered to attack a medieval fortress using no weapons that would destroy or harm it.

  Dale Dye

  War, Marine, Fighting

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• It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.

  Sun Ra

  Brother, Men, Jail

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• If I couldn't laugh, I just would go insane. If we couldn't laugh, we just would go insane. If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Laughter, Crazy, Laughing

  Song: Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes

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