Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dirk Benedict

A talented writer can write women, men, dogs, pigs. They can write old people, young people. Does a writer have to be insane to write the part of someone insane? I know he has to be insane to want to be a writer, but that isn't the point.

Taylor Swift

It's kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

Iggy Azalea

They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

Ottessa Moshfegh

It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.

Charles Shaughnessy

'Days of Our Lives' was an insane schedule. You're doing a whole one-hour show in a day. You do a very cursory run-through with the director telling you where you're going to be standing, then you do a quick rehearsal on camera and you shoot it.

Kurt Vonnegut

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

Jennifer Murphy

The rumours were insane -- everything from $2.25 a litre in Ontario to $1.90 in Halifax.

Francis Ford Coppola

We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.

Henry Ward Beecher

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.

Henry Miller

What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?

Henry Miller

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

I'd never buy something, even if it's a great brand, that is a competitor to something I already own; that's insane.

Chrissy Teigen

I always get to eat what I want because if I don't, I go insane.

George Bernard Shaw

This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.

George Bernard Shaw

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

Jason Reitman

I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.

Jason Mraz

Oh my, justifying reasons why Is an absolutely insane resolution to live by ((Live High))

In 20 years of coaching, I don't think I've ever seen scouts go instantly insane over a player like they do when they see Martin on the field. Martin's upside is unlimited, and he's done a phenomenal job in quickly making friends with his teammates.

Nellie Bly

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.

Noam Chomsky

What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.

Joe Strummer

A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.

Graham Nash

There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.

Graham Nash

I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.

Jim Butcher

Tavi grinned. "Are you with me?" "The plan is insane," Ehren said. "YOU are insane." He looked around the inside of the tent. "I'll need some pants.

Jim Butcher

And you've got that look on your face again." "I can't help it, "Ehren said. "You're about to walk to breakfast, arn't you, regardless of who is in the way?" "Yes," Tavi said. Ehren sighed. "Let's hear it." Tavi told him the plan. "That's insane," Ehren said. "It could work." "You arn't going to have anyone come along to bail you out this time," Ehren pointed out. Tavi grinned. "Are you with me?" "The plan is insane," Ehren said. "You are insane." He looked around inside the tent. "I'll need some pants.

Jared Leto

I’m not insane, I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality.

Naya Rivera

Me and my cheeseburgers are insane.

Ndamukong Suh

I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go insane.

Kim Harrison

Minias smiled. Great. Another charming demon. I sort of prefer the insane ones.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Mania can be as terrifying as it gets. It is certainly as insane as one gets and so it's frightening when it gets out of control, but there are periods of mania when it can be extremely attractive.

Martin Gore

There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.

Matt Damon

Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage

Mika

I can't just listen to music walking down the street unless I have a reason to. I can't just listen to music as a piece of junk in the background. It drives me insane.