Lobotomy Quotes

• I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

  Tom Waits

  Drinking, Beer, Bottles

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• If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Motivation, Regret, Inspiration

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• Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

  David Byrne

  Analysis, Want, Edges

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• I got to thinking about relationships and partial lobotomies. Two seemingly different ideas that might just be perfect together - like chocolate and peanut butter.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Thinking, Ideas, Two

  "Sex and the City: Time and Punishment". TV Series, 2001 - 2002.

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• Liberalism is a disease cured only by a lobotomy or 90 days in a third world country.

  Josh Bernstein

  Country, World, Disease

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• Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything - but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there

  Clive James

  Dirty, Cities, Names

  Clive James (1985). “Flying Visits”

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• It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence. All right then. It is our emotions that are amiss. We are freaks, the world is fine, and let us all go have lobotomies to restore us to a natural state. We can leave the library then, go back to the creek lobotomized, and live on its banks as untroubled as any muskrat or reed. You first.

  Annie Dillard

  Special, Library, World

  Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins

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• Just now when I said, "I have a crush on you," you didn't say, "no way loser". I'd rather have a lobotomy by a leper. That means something

  Robin Williams

  Crush, Inspiration, Mean

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• The renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away their spirit of revolt, of debate, of criticism, and still leave them perfectly capable of making stews or washing dishes. It's terrible, this tendency to consider women something dangerous to society.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Criticism, Routine, Use

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• I'm fat and proud of it. If someone asks me how my diet is going, I say 'Fine - how was your lobotomy?'

  Roseanne Barr

  Proud, Fine, Fats

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• The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true? "It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils," came a low growl from somewhere on the table, "without undergoing a pre-frontal lobotomy."

  Douglas Adams

  Teacher, Would Be, Tables

  "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency". Book by Douglas Adams, 1987.

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• It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.

  Bill Watterson

  Needs, Saws, Calvin And Hobbes Friendship

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• If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.

  Kathy Acker

  Want, Ask Me, Asks

  Kathy Acker (1996). “Pussy, King of the Pirates”, Acker, Kathy

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• The shoulder surgery was a success. The lobotomy failed.

  Mike Ditka

  Nfl, Shoulders, Surgery

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• I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of acceptance, hasn't also produced a moral lobotomy. In the reluctance, the aversion to being judgmental, are we disabled from making any judgments at all?

  Ellen Goodman

  Religious, Moving, Acceptance

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• I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good.

  Alice Cooper

  Country, Crazy, Western Music

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• When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy.

  I. J. Good

  Simplicity, Brain, Easy

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• As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Eight, Want, Hours

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• We're talking about the chemical lobotomy. We're talking about the chemical straightjacketing of our children.

  Michael Savage

  Children, Talking, Chemicals

  Source: whale.to

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• A woman went to a plastic surgeon and asked him to make her like Bo Derek. He gave her a lobotomy.

  Joan Rivers

  Plastic, Surgery, Surgeons

  "Happy 80th birthday Joan Rivers! Comedian's 80 bitchiest putdowns and funniest one-liner jokes" by Steve Anglesey, www.mirror.co.uk. June 08, 2013.

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• I didn't know what would take my mind off the sexy Spartan, except for maybe a total lobotomy.

  Jennifer Estep

  Sexy, Mind, Knows

  Jennifer Estep (2011). “Kiss of Frost”, p.26, Kensington Books

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• Every day a sharp tool, a powerful destroyer, is necessary to cut away dullness, lobotomy, buzzing, belief in human beings, stagnancy, images, and accumulation. As soon as we stop believing in human beings, rather know we are dogs and trees, we'll start to be happy.

  Kathy Acker

  Dog, Powerful, Believe

  Kathy Acker (1989). “Blood and Guts in High School”, p.37, Grove Press

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• The Humane Society of America thinks Michael Vick should have a dog. I think whoever's in charge there should have a lobotomy.

  Andrew Vachss

  Dog, Thinking, Should Have

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• We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.

  Kathy Acker

  Cracks, Rotten, World

  Kathy Acker (1996). “Pussy, King of the Pirates”, Acker, Kathy

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• I'm one of those gay people who's constantly reminded of how fortunate I am to live now and not to be Ennis and Jack [from Brokeback Mountain] or whatever - not that I'd mind being Ennis for half an hour. But it's been so much worse recently. It still is terrible. In Iran, they're hanging gay teenagers. I'm grateful for how far the United States, even with its crazy Christians, has come on a lot of issues. And the fact that I get called a faggot occasionally by a crack addict, while annoying, certainly isn't a lobotomy and prison.

  Dan Savage

  Christian, Crazy, Teenager

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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