quotes 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 -
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Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.
-- Adam PallySource : "Happy Endings' Adam Pally, on playing TV's least stereotypical gay guy". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. October 23, 2012.
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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 -
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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 KorzybskiSource : Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.87, Institute of GS
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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 -
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If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.
-- Alva MyrdalSource : Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.
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It's true we're all a little insane
-- Amy LeeSource : "Song: 'Sweet Sacrifice'". 2006.
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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-PalladinoSource : "Job Title: The 'Gilmore' Noodge". Interview with Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. January 23, 2005.
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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 -
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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 ArtaudSource : Antonin Artaud (1995). “Watchfiends & Rack Screams: Works from the Final Period”
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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 -
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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 ***** 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 -
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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 -
Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue...
-- Billy Joel -
Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane...
-- Bob Dylan -
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I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?
-- Bret Easton Ellis -
Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.
-- Bruce RobinsonSource : Bruce Robinson (2015). “Withnail and I”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing
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It's fine to be insane as long as you keep it to yourself.
-- Carol Plum-UcciSource : Carol Plum-Ucci (2011). “Following Christopher Creed”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I had been on this insane diet for almost 17 years to maintain the weight that was demanded of me when I was modeling. My diet was really starvation. I am not naturally that thin.
-- Carre Otis -
An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.
-- Chanakya -
I had people in my life who were insane and negative, but they taught me how not to be, how I didn't want to end up.
-- Channing TatumSource : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.
-- Charlie Sheen -
The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
-- Cheryl HinesSource : "Q&A: Cheryl Hines on Suburgatory and Being 'Cheryl'". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. October 17, 2012.
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I take the subway because I don't like having someone else driving. It's hard for me to be in a cab, because the traffic makes me feel insane. On the subway you're getting there faster and it's easier.
-- Chloe Sevigny -
The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the more we will be able to wall off the flood of illusions disseminated by mass culture and the more we will retain sanity in an insane world.
-- Chris Hedges -
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I always get to eat what I want because if I don't, I go insane.
-- Chrissy Teigen -
Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
-- Claude Monet -
Most sane people think that no insane person can reason logically. But this is not so.
-- Clifford Whittingham BeersSource : Clifford Whittingham Beers (2015). “A Mind That Found Itself”, p.42, Sheba Blake Publishing
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After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.
-- Clive Owen -
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All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane ...
-- Cornelia Otis Skinner -
I have been insane on the subject of money-making all my life.
-- Cornelius Vanderbilt -
Is this what it's like to get close to other people--you do something insane together and then you have to share everything even if you don't really want to?
-- Courtney Summers -
Director Oliver Stone says he's going to make a movie about Vladimir Putin. I can't believe anyone would want to work with that insane communist. And Putin is a little crazy as well.
-- Craig Ferguson -
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Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.
-- Craig Ferguson -
I've been able to do what I love and what I'm passionate about my entire life. I made, you know, an insane amount of money playing baseball.
-- Curt Schilling -
It seems insane-so violent and loud. It's audacious that you would even think such a thing.
-- Dan Winters -
Maybe you're going insane." "Maybe," agreed Kernel. "I was joking." "I wasn't.
-- Darren Shan -
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Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)
-- Dave Eggers -
Henke sensed her terrifying aptitude for destruction as never before. Henke had feared for her sanity; now she knew the truth was almost worse than that. Honor wasn't insane - she simply didn't care. She'd lost not only her sense of balance but any desire to regain it.
-- David WeberSource : "Field of Dishonor". Book by David Weber, 1994.
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The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.
-- Deepak Chopra -
I think there are so many little hurdles and impediments with stand-up that you'd need to have this insane desire to do it if you didn't have something that clicked right away.
-- Demetri Martin -
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I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.
-- Diana Ross -
Poetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding dimension, insight, vision, recognition to our lives. We just might be more complete, more aware after a poem.
-- Diane GlancySource : Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.83, U of Nebraska Press
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He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it... he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice.
-- Donald Barthelme -
John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you'd expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off.
-- Donald Pleasence -
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I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.
-- Dorothea DixSource : Dorothea Lynde Dix (1843). “Memorial: To the Legislature of Massachusetts [protesting Against the Confinement of Insane Persons and Idiots in Almshouses and Prisons]”, p.4
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Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.
-- E. F. Schumacher -
Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?
-- Eckhart Tolle -
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Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.
-- Eden PhillpottsSource : Eden Phillpotts (1918). “A Shadow Passes”
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.
-- Edie Falco -
A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicous piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ***** of a woman is practising howling below-stairs with a brute of a singingmaster so horribly, that my head is nearly off.
-- Edward LearSource : Edward Lear (1992). “A Book of Learned Nonsense”, Sutton Pub Limited
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All sin is a form of insanity. Satan is the most insane being of all because he still believes he can defeat God
-- Edwin Louis ColeSource : Edwin Louis Cole (1992). “On becoming a--real man”, Thomas Nelson Publishers
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It's scary to watch someone you love go into the center of himself and confront his fears, fear of failure, fear of death, fear of going insane. You have to fail a little, die a little, go insane a little, to come out the other side.
-- Eleanor CoppolaSource : Eleanor Coppola (1979). “Notes”, Amadeus Press
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I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed.
-- Elijah Wood -
Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.
-- Elizabeth WeinSource : Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.41, Egmont UK
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Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others
-- Elizabeth Wurtzel -
If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I've completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he's insane!
-- Eminem -
It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancées whom they have never seen.
-- Enoch Powell -
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I feel close to the rebelliousness of the youth here. Perhaps time will seperate us , but nobody can deny that here, behind the windows of Manchester, there is an insane love of football, of celebration and of music.
-- Eric CantonaSource : "They Said It: Eric Cantona". www.fifa.com. August 27, 2010.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
-- Erica Jong -
When all actions are used for feedback, the consequence of making mistakes will be a corrective and appropriate response, because everything everybody does matters. ... The more selective you are in the feedback you accept, the more insane your reasoning will become as you will necessarily reject corrective feedback that would have led to better reasoning.
-- Erik Naggum -
How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
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We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.
-- Francis Ford Coppola -
I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did have this disease. Rather, it was because he understood that insanity was the only philosophic answer if the infinite-personal God does not exist.
-- Francis Schaeffer -
I'd never buy something, even if it's a great brand, that is a competitor to something I already own; that's insane.
-- Francois-Henri Pinault -
I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
-- Gabrielle Reece -
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Initially, he worried that he might be going crazy. But then he decided if you felt you were crazy you weren't really crazy because he had heard somewhere that crazy people didn't know they were insane.
-- Gary PaulsenSource : Gary Paulsen (2001). “Brian's Winter”, p.14, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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You know what’s more insane than [slaughterhouses]? Meat eaters. Walking around, acting like their lifestyle isn’t causing any harm.
-- Gary Yourofsky -
anymore time in that black hole and ill go insane.
-- Gena Showalter -
Just because we live in an insane culture doesn't mean we have to be insane too.
-- Geneen Roth -
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'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'
-- George Mikes -
If the Bible will not give eternal benefits to homosexuals, if they cannot inherit the kingdom of God, why, Klingenschmitt asked, on this world, should they get bonus pay or employment benefits?
-- Gordon Klingenschmitt -
[Wendy Davis is] ruled by a demon of murder.
-- Gordon Klingenschmitt -
The ultimate hate speech is to endorse homosexuality.
-- Gordon KlingenschmittSource : "Klingenschmitt: ‘The Ultimate Hate Speech Is To Endorse Homosexuality’". www.rightwingwatch.org. June 10, 2014.
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But homosexuality is a combat divider, dividing one's reason to live while taking breaks on the combat field to change diapers all because their treacherous sin causes them to lose control of their bowels.
-- Gordon Klingenschmitt -
American law needs to reflect gods law.
-- Gordon Klingenschmitt -
It is possible for the devil to inhabit animals the same way he inhabits humans and that causes a sin of lust.
-- Gordon Klingenschmitt -
The marketing of homosexuality has an agenda, and that is to repopulate their population by recruiting the children of homosexuals.
-- Gordon KlingenschmittSource : "Gordon Klingenschmitt, Former Navy Chaplain, Slams Obama’s Gay Marriage Stance", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2012.
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