Famous Quotes & Sayings

Milla Jovovich

Bringing all 45 members of my crazy family together, and watching them argue is super awesome. It's good to do it just once a year.

Matt Taibbi

What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides.

Matt Taibbi

In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance.

Meg Wolitzer

We sometimes drive ourselves crazy with how our books will be "seen," when in fact we already know what they're about, and where our obsessions are. If we can spin those obsessions into fiction, then there's a decent chance they will be "fiction-worthy," as you call it. The idea of the "sweep of ideas" is a complicated one.

Maxine Waters

If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion.

Max Walker

Were all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists havent been caught yet.

Max von Essen

It's a crazy soprano, and singing as a man as a woman. But for many years, I was on the road in Chicago as Mary Sunshine, so I can do that. I didn't think there was any way I was going to get it - it was so far out of my comfort-zone.

Marina and the Diamonds

When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playing live, you interact with people and you feel the energy in the room. When the crowd is going crazy, that definitely impacts your vocal performance. I prefer to sing live.

Marina Abramovic

I had to leave some traces. In the beginning, I would give complete instructions to the photographer. In the '70s, people would come to photograph your work and you would just end up with this crazy material that had nothing to do with your work; maybe I'd pick up two or three photographs that were the closest to the idea. This is why when you look at the '70s, you see much less documentation and really bad material. The material will become misleading to what the piece was.

Mary Steenburgen

People that want it to just be funny should not despair, because there is so much true crazy comedy coming up.

Patricia Cornwell

I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.

Patricia Briggs

Maybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin)

Pablo Neruda

I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrence risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body. and: No one can stop the river of your hands, your eyes and their sleepiness, my dearest. You are the trembling of time, which passes between the vertical light and the darkening sky. and: From the stormy archipelagoes I brought my windy accordian, waves of crazy rain, the habitual slowness of natural things: they made up my wild heart.

Philip Larkin

You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and Wagner, and things that seemed crazy when they were new and seem crazy now, like 'Finnegans Wake' and Picasso.

Paula Abdul

I'm working toward a CD that will have all of you dancing like crazy.

Paula Abdul

Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Which is so important, I mean, that's what's so great about the books, is, you know, those two worlds are sort of, the slacker world of just comedy and laziness and then this crazy, over the top action, supernatural world, and you know, combined.

Martin Schulz

Particularly in periods of crisis, governments have the obligation to lead by good example! Instead, many in Europe are confronting this global challenge with a penny-pinching mentality that drives me crazy.

LeBron James

That's crazy, because I had no idea what the word 'contraction' meant before I saw it on the Internet,

Philip Roth

I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, "Is he as crazy as I am?" I don’t need that question answered.

Philip Roth

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

Petra Stunt

My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way.

Pharrell Williams

I've never seen myself as an artist. So when that happened it was like a whole other crazy thing.

Pharrell Williams

Creative people are often considered crazy but I believe crazy can be a good thing.

Peter Diamandis

The question companies have to ask, or governments have to ask is, where do we allow crazy ideas to bubble up? Because if there is a failure, what happens? Someone gets blame. There's a lawsuit, there's a congressional investigation. And so, those things shut down the creative engine.

Peter Diamandis

You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.

Peter Diamandis

The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.

Peter Beard

I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.

Peter Benchley

Look, Chief, you can't go off half-cocked looking for vengeance against a fish. That shark isn't evil. It's not a murderer. It's just obeying its own instincts. Trying to get retribution against a fish is crazy.

Penn Jillette

My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.

Penn Jillette

Bob Barr is not crazy enough for my taste.

Penn Jillette

Tolerance is you saying something crazy and me smiling and saying, 'That's nice.'

Peggy Noonan

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.