Insane Quotes - Page 39

• To a happy war!" Their laughter flowed out into the night and reached into the pass through the Dancing Maidens, where it echoed around the mountains with all the insane glee of an army of pyschopaths.

  Stuart Hill

  Laughter, War, Army

  Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #2: Blade of Fire”, p.96, Scholastic Inc.

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• Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.

  Stephen King

  Men, Redemption, Dangerous

  "Fictional character: Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding". "The Shawshank Redemption", www.imdb.com. September 10, 1994.

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• Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They had come down from the back mountains and higher places to hold forth their hands for something they thought civilization could offer, and they never dreamed the sadness and the poor broken delusion of it.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sadness, Eye, Dark

  "On the Road".

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• ...the only thing that had tethered her to the earth had been him and it was strange, but she felt welded to him on some core level now. He had seen her at her absolute worst, at her weakest and most insane, and he hadn't looked away. He hadn't judged and he hadn't been burned. It was as if in the heat of her meltdown they had melted together. This was more than emotion. It was a matter of soul.

  J.R. Ward

  Soul, Together, Levels

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• You'd be surprised. Besides, they don't even send royal traitors to prison, Rose. Everyone knows that." I scoffed. "Are you insane? Of course they do. What else do you think they do with traitors? Set them free and tell them not to do it again?" "No," said Abe, just before he turned away. "They execute traitors.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Rose, Royal

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• [on the BMW X3] If you are clinically insane, by which I mean you wake up in the morning and think you are an onion, here's your car.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Morning, Mean, Thinking

  "Top Gear (Episode #4.10)". TV Series, August 1, 2004.

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• All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Imagination, Brain, Might

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• For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.

  Albert Einstein

  Ideas, Firsts, Doe

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• I'd rather be insane with you than sane without you. - Jake to Lydia

  Lisa Kleypas

  Jake, Without You, Sane

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• All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Beautiful, Horse, Born

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• For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.

  Mary Webb

  Soul, Doe, Conformity

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• I never took the bus. Never. Walking meant you were eccentric or pious or a loser - riding the bus meant you were insane or masochistic and worse than a loser.

  Susan Straight

  Riding, Eccentric, Loser

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• A culture disconnected from wild nature becomes insane.

  Toby Hemenway

  Culture, Disconnected

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• It feels intimate and life affirming to me when someone tweets things that appear to just be insane thoughts they had and typed out then tweeted immediately, with little or no regard for how others might perceive them, simply because they were in a state of emotional desperation and felt like they didn't want to express those thoughts to anyone else.

  Mira Gonzalez

  Emotional, Want, Littles

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I would ask, "How can one have a technological society without research? How can one have research without researching dangerous areas? How can one research dangerous areas without uncovering dangerous information? How can you uncover dangerous information without it falling into the hands of insane people who will sooner or later destroy the human race, if not the whole of life on earth?" Who knows? God only knows!

  Pete Seeger

  Fall, Race, Hands

  Source: portside.org

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• I have this insane optimistic streak that the American people prevail over the stupidity that the leadership exhibits time and time again, and I think that's the truth.

  Lewis Black

  Optimistic, Thinking, People

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• [On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which is rather companionable of it.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Men, Giving, Looks

  Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner

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• Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an empirical point of view - which scorn ("fait fi", Fr.) virtue and altruism - regarded as insane or fools; but, from a moral standpoint, they are heros who do honour ("qui honorent", Fr.) humanity.

  African Spir

  Hero, Sacrifice, Men

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 38), 1937.

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• While it is democratically not permissible for an individual to own any information or publishing medium, all individuals have a natural right to self-expression by any means, even if such means were insane and meant to prove a person's insanity.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Mean, Self, Expression

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• You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totally insane time in my life. Paul Rudd was also a bar mitzvah emcee, you know? It was like being a local rock star in Detroit.

  James Wolk

  Stars, Rocks, Emcee

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• After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.

  Clive Owen

  Writing, Years, Pages

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• I wouldnt say Malkovich is totally insane, but hes not living in the real world. Hes living in his world, which is a fine world to live in apparently.

  Martha Plimpton

  Real, World, Fine

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• There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it! Bjork drove my mom nuts. What I listened to was actually pretty mom-friendly for the most part. I wasn't very rebellious.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Mom, Mother, Nuts

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• There is no community service in Seinfeld. But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

  Jason Alexander

  Thinking, Community, Banality

  "The End of 'Seinfeld'". www.rollingstone.com. May 28, 1998.

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• You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.

  Eric Idle

  Mother, Kids, Thinking

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