Lunatic Quotes - Page 5

• Doubtless the lunatic asylums of the world are filled with unfortunate women who have failed to see my charms.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lunatic Asylums, World, Charm

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2070, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m adding ‘canine’ to my searches,” I said. “And ‘instinct.’” “Whatever. I’m adding ‘lunatic.

  Kathy Reichs

  Instinct, Said, Canine

  Kathy Reichs (2011). “Seizure: A Virals Novel”, p.114, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.

  Joel Salatin

  Christian, Humorous, Libertarian

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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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• If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Thinking, Risk, Able

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• There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By and large, though, if there were a choice between the life Poles led in the 1970s and 1980s and now, nobody but a lunatic would say they wanted to have back what they had before.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Disappointment, Choices, Pockets

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• I want to make a series of movies that run together, so if any crazy lunatic wants to watch them all in a row, there will be a consistency of tone.

  Peter Jackson

  Running, Crazy, Consistency

  "Comic-Con: Martin Freeman, Sir Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis and Peter Jackson Talk THE HOBBIT, the Possibility of Three Films, 48fps, 3D, SHERLOCK, More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 15, 2012.

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• Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put my trust in the lunatic. He is the one least concerned of what I think of him, the mark of an honest man. I can always depend on him to be completely honest in what he thinks and feels, about anything, no matter the consequences laid before him, however with no course of rationale, I cannot necessarily take his word for even the well-being of him in his own reality.

  Criss Jami

  Honesty, Reality, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.33, Criss Jami

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• Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our banter from utter banality.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Depression, Giants, Impossible

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• In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.

  Alvin Toffler

  Change, Communication, Fire

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• A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marvellous idea to paper, does something else of a quite different kind, so as to acquire new and rich experience.

  Joan Aiken

  Children, Ideas, Doe

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• I believe that in any initiative, you can't have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a company, you can not be a logical leader. You have to go to the lunatic fringe. There is no way that logic is what you need to change people.

  Jack Welch

  Believe, Flavor Of The Month, People

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• The way to find what the mainstream will do tomorrow is to associate with the lunatic fringe today.

  Jean Louis

  Today, Way, Tomorrow

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• To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'

  Lena Olin

  Smart, Actors, Idiot

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• Stories--from the literature of our culture to descriptions of our days to the lunatic's ravings--appear to be hardwired into us. Even in sleep we tell ourselves stories through our dreams, and it's been shown that those who are prevented from doing so cease to function.

  Michael Ruhlman

  Dream, Sleep, Culture

  Michael Ruhlman (2005). “House: A Memoir”, Viking Press

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• I do not oppose the insane asylum - but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asylum an indispensable adjunct to every civilized community.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Men, Community, Insanity

  "What's the Matter with Chicago?" by Eugene V. Debs in "Chicago Socialist", www.marxists.org. October 25, 1902.

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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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• 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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• If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.

  Roberto Bolano

  Thinking, Would Be, Lunatic Asylums

  Mining Mirror magazine, Volume 19, p. 3, 2006.

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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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