Paranoid Quotes - Page 10

• I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

  David Foster Wallace

  One Line, Enough, Knows

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• I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind of have, protective armour. It's not for my friends or family, but for being.outside in the world, always on guard.

  Jennifer Aniston

  World, Kind, Not Trusting

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• The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is organized in spheres joyful or threatening about the central pulse of himself, the dreamer whose puns probe ancient fetid shafts and tunnels of truth all act in the same special relevance to the word, or whatever it is the word is there, buffering, to protect us from. The act of metaphor than was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside, safe or outside, lost.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Lying, Tunnels, Light

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• Yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists and ham-fisted clowns. If you are on a list targeted by the CIA, you really have nothing to worry about. If however, you have a name similar to somebody on a list targeted by the CIA, then you are dead.

  Alan Moore

  Running, Names, Numbers

  "The Mindscape of Alan Moore". 2003.

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• I like playing the stuff where I don´t know what I´m gonna play. Like the end of Fake Plastic Trees or the end of Paranoid Android - stuff where I can do anything and no one notices or cares.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Play, Fake, Tree

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• When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.

  Helen Mirren

  Beautiful, Miserable, Young

  "Helen Mirren shows women can age beautifully, but we shouldn't have to" by Christina Patterson, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2014.

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• I'm always really worried about ruining their lives. Especially with people that aren't famous. It's such a massive change. I'm kind of a paranoid wreck. I've eaten a lot of room service.

  Robert Pattinson

  People, Room Service, Wrecks

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• Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before mediocre and treacherous leadership, so paranoid, deluded, lunatic?

  Philip Berrigan

  Lying, Tyrants, People

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• If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.

  Robert Breault

  Thinking, Class, Society

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• The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.

  Kenneth Oppel

  Dream, Games, World

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• I had braces; I was lucky, 'cause I had some snaggle teeth. I always try and keep my retainer on me 'cause I'm paranoid about my teeth. It was run over by a car, so half of it's missing, but it still works.

  Kreayshawn

  Running, Car, Missing

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• The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that

  Patricia Schroeder

  Government, Politics, Position

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• I get paranoid about people staring at me. Even now I don't deal with people looking at me. I can't do it sometimes. I can't go out. I don't know how to react when people stare.

  Robbie Fowler

  People, Sometimes, Staring

  "Don't look back in anger" by Sarah Edworthy, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2005.

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• Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Cutting, Feminism

  "Sex, Art and American Culture: Essays". Book by Camille Paglia, p. 10, 1992.

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• Now, this is the fun part about getting stoned. They get stoned, then they become paranoid. Now, when they started out, they said, "Let's get high and have fun." So they're high; now they're paranoid. "Am I falling out of this chair?"

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Fall, Humor

  "Bill Cosby: Himself". m.imdb.com. 1983.

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• New York has made me so paranoid, too. Whenever I visit another city, I always act like I'm from there, so the cab driver doesn't rip me off. I'm always like, "Yeah, it's good to be back home. Back here where I grew up. Yeah. Here in Tokyo. ... Uh, driver, I need to go to my old stomping grounds. That would be the Holiday Inn. And the address appears to be the pound sign."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, New York, Rip

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• I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission.

  Alex Gibney

  Self, Way, Assange

  Source: collider.com

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• But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever penned this body of work was firstly well-travelled, secondly a multi-linguist and thirdly someone who had an innate knowledge of the inner workings and the mechanisms of a very secret and paranoid Elizabethan court. Edward de Vere ticks those three boxes and many more. William of Stratford gave his wife a bed when he died [his second best bed].

  Rhys Ifans

  Reading, Wife, Secret

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

  Joseph Heller

  Ignorance, Mean, Law

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• And I've always been paranoid. I can remember as a baby my mother would spin the mobile above my head and thinking..."yeah, that's coming down."

  Dennis Miller

  Mother, Baby, Thinking

  "Dennis Miller: Black and White". Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• I was walking down the street the other day and these construction workers were working on the roof hammering away. One of them told me I was a paranoid lunatic... in morse code.

  Emo Philips

  Construction Workers, Morse Code, Roof

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• I love conspiracy theories. I used to just live on it. You know it's all hype and garbage, but you're still really paranoid afterwards. It's fun entertainment.

  Doug Stanhope

  Fun, Hype, Entertainment

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• I believe in diversification of income, because you never know what will happen. I'm a slightly paranoid person who thinks things could be ruined at any time.

  Eugene Mirman

  Believe, Thinking, Income

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• I'm Jewish... We're a very nervous group. Paranoid. Anxiety-ridden. Maybe that Hitler thing made us a little jumpy. Nothing like a Holocaust to make you mind your Ps and Qs for a couple hundred years I always say.

  Andy Kindler

  Couple, Years, Holocaust

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• Because I'm always so paranoid about doing corny things, or cheesy things in music, that often I probably don't make as good music as I could if I wasn't stifling it so much.

  Jay Watson

  Cheesy, Corny, Stifling

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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