Lunatic Quotes - Page 4

• You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Everyday, Radicalism

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.147, Best Books on

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• I don't take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion.

  J. K. Rowling

  Responsibility, Fringe, My Own

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• Where are you anyway? (Acheron) I don't know. I hear some godawful kind of music from outside, horns blaring, and I'm in a house with a Mohawk cuckoo bird, a transvestite, and a knife-wielding lunatic. (Valerius) Why are you at Tabitha's? (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Knives, Bird, House

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• Do Mom and Dad know you’re dating a homicidal lunatic? (Madaug) No, and if you tell them, I’ll superglue your fingertips to your keyboard. (Eric)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mom, Dad, Dating

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• When Švejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why those loonies get so angry when they're kept there. You can crawl naked on the floor, howl like a jackal, rage and bite. If anyone did this anywhere on the promenade people would be astonished, but there it's the most common or garden thing to do. There's a freedom there which not even Socialists have ever dreamed of.

  Jaroslav Hašek

  Garden, People, Naked

  Jaroslav Hašek (1993). “The Good Soldier Svejk”, Everyman's Library

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• People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

  Gregory Maguire

  Long, People, Wicked

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.383, Hachette UK

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• People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I'm much more relaxed than that.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Thinking, Long, People

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• He shook his head. He didn't know. He couldn't tell when he had woken fully. He walked to the horses. They definitely seemed alarmed. But then, they would. After all, he had just leapt to his feet unexpectedly, waving his saxe knife around like a lunatic.

  John Flanagan

  Horse, Knives, Feet

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• You sweet…beautiful…lunatic,” he heard himself mutter.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Beautiful, Sweet, Heard

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• People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.

  Leonard Baskin

  People, Who Cares, Fringe

  Leonard Baskin, Alan M. Fern (1970). “Leonard Baskin”

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• The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

  David Lloyd George

  Running, Political, Lunatic Asylums

  In Observer 8 Jan. 1933

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• I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Thinking, People

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• Sure, I’m gray-shading the line that separates stable and crazy, but the point is, there is a line. And I haven’t completely crossed over to lunatic.

  Anna Banks

  Crazy, Lines, Gray

  Anna Banks (2012). “Of Poseidon”, p.284, Macmillan

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• You stole a boat,” she snapped. “What am I doing with you, you boat-stealing lunatic?

  Cassandra Clare

  Boat, Stealing

  Twitter post from Apr 18, 2011

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• Across from me at the next row of supports Jim raised his hand and touched his fingers to his thumb a few times, imitating an opening and closing beak. Negotiate. He wanted me to engage a lunatic who had already turned four people into smoking meat. Okay. I could do that. “Alright, Jeremy!” I yelled into the night. “Give me the salamander and I won’t cut your head off!” Jim put his hand over his face and did some shaking. I thought he was laughing, but I couldn’t be sure.

  Ilona Andrews

  Cutting, Night, Hands

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.16, Penguin

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• If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it is indistinguishable from higher mathematics.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Writing, Mean, Eye

  Eric Temple Bell (1945). “Men of Mathematics”

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• Imagine how foolish you would feel if you didn't try only because someone said you're a lunatic.

  Paul Horowitz

  Moon, Trying, Imagine

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• The thing about New York is you can leave your house without a plan and find the day. You can't do that in Los Angeles. You need to get in your car, all this, you can't just drive around like a lunatic. In New York, you can literally walk outside, and wind up anywhere.

  Michael Rapaport

  New York, Wind, Car

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• There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term 'conservatism' can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country's future.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Powerful, Political

  Noam Chomsky (1988). “The Culture of Terrorism”, p.29, South End Press

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• If a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted in the reality of the old world view; as a lunatic or alienated artist, his own neurotic traits can become magnified as they tremble with the new energy pouring in from the universal source.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Mean, Artist, Reality

  William Irwin Thompson (1990). “At the Edge of History”, SteinerBooks

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• I have a couple of questions," he said. "Do, please, go ahead." "My first one is for Yassen Gregorovich." He turned to the Russian. "Why are you working for this lunatic?" "I sometimes think that I was richer when I was eight years old than most people will be in their lifetime!" "Do we have to listen to this?" Alex asked.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Couple, Thinking, Eight

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• Tris," he says. "What did they do to you? You're acting like a lunatic." "That's not very nice of you to say," I say. "They put me in a good mood, that's all. And now I really want to kiss you, so if you could just relax-

  Veronica Roth

  Nice, Kissing, Relax

  Veronica Roth (2012). “Insurgent Collector's Edition (Enhanced Edition)”, p.49, Harper Collins

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• Adjusting to Beau being a caveman over a girl had been almost as hard as seeing him with Ash. Beau didn't do jealous, not until Ashton had become his. Now he was a freaking lunatic.

  Abbi Glines

  Girl, Jealous, Ashes

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• Listen; this world is the lunatic's sphere ,
  Don't always agree it's real,
  Even with my feet upon it And the postman knowing my door
  My address is somewhere else.

  Hafez

  Real, Doors, Somewhere Else

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• Hit me with your rhythm stick, it's nice to be a lunatic.

  Ian Dury

  Nice, Insanity, Sticks

  Song: Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

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