Quotes and Sayings About Insane
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There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
-- Abraham Maslow -
When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.
-- Adam Carolla -
The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.
-- Adam McKay -
Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.
-- Adam Pally -
No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
-- Alan Watts -
For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.
-- Albert Einstein -
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.
-- Alexander Herzen -
If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our beliefs- we cannot adjust ourselves to actual conditions, and so fall into many avoidable semantic difficulties. But the so-called normal person practically never abides by his beliefs, and when his beliefs are building for him a fictitious world, he saves his neck by not abiding by them. A so-called "insane" person acts upon his beliefs, and so cannot adjust himself to a world which is quite different from his fancy.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look,
-- Ali MacGraw -
The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.
-- Alice Waters -
I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.
-- Alistair Cooke -
If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.
-- Alva Myrdal -
These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino -
I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.
-- Andre Breton -
I'm going to do a lot of weird stuff that's not going to be like me prancing around like an insane 12-year-old. I showed everybody that side of me and I think it's time to do different stuff, even when it comes down to the type of humor. I want to do some drier, weirder stuff.
-- Andy Milonakis -
With a polite smile, I decided she was insane.
-- Ann Aguirre -
Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.
-- Anna Castillo -
There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
-- Antonin Artaud -
THE PRICE grew out of a need to reconfirm the power of the past, the seedbed of current reality, and the way to possibly reaffirm cause and effect in an insane world.
-- Arthur Miller -
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.
-- Ashley Greene -
most Americans are in deep awe of things-as-they-are. Even with everything this obviously out of control, they still tell themselves that those in authority must know what they are doing, and must be describing our condition to us as it really is; they still take it for granted that somehow what is, what is done, must make sense, can't really be insane. These assumptions exercise a tyranny over their minds.
-- Barbara Deming -
As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment never let up.
-- Barbara Kruger -
I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.
-- Ben Stein -
A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.
-- Bill Hader -
It's so easy to demagogue the issue and make someone who speaks out against the internal-combustion engine sound like an insane communist, when the truth is that the internal-combustion engine is the biggest threat to our lives, in terms of what it's doing to our environment and how it's depleting the ozone layer and so forth.
-- Bill Maher
