Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

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

Michael Richards

I’m not a racist. That’s what’s so insane about this,

Michael Keaton

Ahhh... It's good to be young and insane.

Mark Twain

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

Marianne Williamson

Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not come in the form we expected, or even thought we desired, but it will come, and we will recognize it by how we feel. In spite of everything, we will feel at peace.

Kevin Spacey

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

James Patterson

I'll just ask now: What is it about my persona that draws every insane, power-hungry nutcase to me like a magnet?

Eric Andre

Wonder Showzen is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny and new and original and edgy and insane and subversive. I didn't know comedy could do that.

Emily Dickinson

Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane

Michael Caine

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

Michiel Huisman

I'm always repeating myself. You never just do a scene once, you do it an insane amount of times.

John Steinbeck

It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.

Sinclair Lewis

There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.

Michelle Rodriguez

I was hanging out in gers [yurts] with these Kazakh sort of Bedouins. Drank nasty-ass camel milk. The drive [from the Souther Gobi to Ulan Bator] is insane. It's like The Road.

Ray Bradbury

You're insane!" "I won't argue that point.

Henry Adams

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards.

Pablo Neruda

Hay algo más tonto en la vida Que llamarse Pablo Neruda? (is there anything more insane in this life than being called Pablo Neruda?)

Lisa Marie Presley

Were it not for Scientology, I would either be completely insane or dead by now,

Lisa Marie Presley

I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

What are you? Insane? I’m not interested in Ms. Preppy Uptight Sloan Ranger. Jeez. I’d get khaki between my teeth. Can you imagine? I’ve never been in khaki and I never want to see a woman out it. It scares me. (Dev)

Morris Chestnut

You have to be insane to direct.

Marlon Brando

All I want to be is normally insane.

Megan Fox

I haven't gone completely insane, but it might happen soon.

Matthew Vaughn

Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.

Mike Tyson

Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane.

Madeleine L'Engle

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

Lisa Kleypas

I'd rather be insane with you than sane without you. - Jake to Lydia