Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chogyam Trungpa

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

David Brin

A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

Anais Nin

Everything but happiness is neurosis.

Alfred Adler

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

Sebastian Horsley

Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't, he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere-much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.

Fran Drescher

our greatest compatibility was in how we complemented each other's neuroses.

Hubert H. Humphrey

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

Mason Cooley

The neuroses parody the virtues.

Jim Shaw

I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid, parts of Asperger's. I'm a smorgasbord of neuroses.

Chris Laramore

We want the kids to be physically fit and learn good behavior, sportsmanship, respect for themselves and for others.

Rob Enderle

Walker Digital doesn't look like much more than an idea house that comes up with ideas, then sues people who come up with similar ones. I think that kind of behavior is very similar to what happened on the high seas with pirates. It's being done under the auspices of a legitimate business practice, but in fact it's concealing behavior that is anything but fair business practice.

Naomi Campbell

very disappointed in her behavior and that she should go now.

Paul Heldman

We strongly dispute the claim that the behavior of some store managers reflected a corporate plan devised to further the company's position during the prolonged labor negotiations.

John Silva

We actually enjoy them - their behavior and how they bounce around and stuff. They've always been a pleasure. Now rats, that's a different story.

Barbara Tuchman

Human behavior is timeless.

Arthur C. Clarke

Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological

Baltasar Gracian

Always act as if you were seen.

Demetri Martin

Drunken behavior will not be tolerated, except by those who are being hilarious.

Alexander Payne

There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.'

Bertrand Russel

The professors must not prevent us from realizing that history is fun, and that the most bizarre things really happen

Katie McGrath

I had this vague notion that one day I might be editor of 'Vogue China.' It was a bizarre ambition, as I didn't speak a word of Chinese. There were flaws in my plan, admittedly.

Twyla Tharp

It's always a problem, getting the curtain in at the end of the first act; having enough of a resolve so that you can bring the curtain in and then opening the show a second time is a little bizarre as a tradition. I've always preferred to go straight through.

Lindsay Davenport

She's a huge fighter. She manages to stay very positive in some bizarre circumstances in matches.

Richard Matheson

I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castles or H.P. Lovecraft-type environments. They were just about normal people who had something bizarre happening to them in the neighborhood.

Rosa DeLauro

Last week, the president suggested his tax cut will solve energy crisis. That is a bizarre and disconnected idea.

George Soros

It is a bizarre thing because I was the only one who was found guilty when the whole of the French establishment was involved,

Mitchell Beers

It is a bizarre situation for a man who is very private and an extremely fine gentleman.