Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Sturt

Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.

Dave Foley

I never watched 'Harper's Island.'

Dave Barry

You might have mentioned this to me Molly,” said Leonard. “The fact that there are hostile natives on the island.” “I forgot,” said Molly. “You forgot?” said Leonard. “There’s been a lot happening,” said Molly.

Dave Barry

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

David Quammen

Islands are where species go to die.

Benicio Del Toro

You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.

Denis Waitley

Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.'

Elizabeth Pena

When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94.

Carolyn Murphy

I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant.

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.

David Stockman

Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world.

Cesare Lombroso

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

Kurt Vonnegut

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

Billy Joel

I don't know why I go to extremes.

Deb Caletti

Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow.

Charlotte Bronte

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

Charles Manson

Sanity is a small box; insanity is everything.

Chloe Sevigny

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.

Darren Shan

Maybe you're going insane." "Maybe," agreed Kernel. "I was joking." "I wasn't.

Kurt Vonnegut

The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.

Antonin Artaud

There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.

Cheryl Strayed

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.

Brady Corbet

To spend 36 hours or 48 hours of my life binge-watching something seems insane to me.

Bob Dylan

What drives me to you, drives me insane.

Billy Collins

More often than not in poetry I find difficulty to be gratuitous and show-offy and camouflaging, experimental to a kind of insane degree - a difficulty which really ignores the possibility of having a sensible reader.