Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

If he were insane, however, his was a very cool and collected insanity.

David Stockman

Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world.

Cesare Lombroso

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

Alan Alda

Insanity is just a state of mind.

Chris Brown

Unity is what we are afraid of so fear is insanity. Let’s love each other.

Kurt Vonnegut

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

Brandon Sanderson

He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Insanity is a lack of proportion.

Charles Manson

Sanity is a small box; insanity is everything.

Dr. Seuss

My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!

John Williams

I don't think we're going to get into the Greek alphabet this year. The good news is it's still 56 days before it starts.

Frank McCourt

I'd just go into a room in my memory and just look around and start seeing things that I'd forgotten, like the alphabet on the blackboard in Irish, which we had to chant every day for months and months and months. I remember the Gaelic script and things like that. And this awful, putrid lavatory that we used outside." ()

Adora Svitak

My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in preschool, and I was already reading chapter books.

Stephen Wright

Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song? The guy who wrote that song wrote everything.

Roz Chast

I sometimes suffer from insomnia. And when I can't fall asleep, I play what I call the alphabet game.

Virginia Postrel

For designers, the rigidity of an alphabet presents a never-ending artistic challenge: How do you do something new and still preserve the letters' essential forms?

Russell Smith

Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is written in an alphabet no one can understand - and surreal drawings of odd beasts and machines.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants.

David Alan Grier

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

Jane Austen

Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.

Alan Watts

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

Chetan Bhagat

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

Jennifer Schack

We're heading up to 76 degrees today, which is 6 degrees warmer than yesterday.

Brad Rehak

This winter has been several degrees warmer than usual. Normally, we would predict highs in the 40s and lows in the 20s.

Bill Nighy

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

Desiderius Erasmus

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly

Charles Babbage

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.