Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Fallon

Senator Rand Paul reflected on Mitt Romney's potential 2016 campaign and said, 'It's sort of what Einstein said, that the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result.' When someone told him Einstein didn't actually say that, he said, 'In the words of Gandhi, 'My bad.''

Leo Durocher

There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth.

Leo Buscaglia

Because you are human, you do have magic. Get in touch with it. When you feel the insanity rising, don't push it down. Let it come out. Just once-and then let me know what happens!

Joseph Heller

Insanity is contagious.

Jimmy Buffett

Is it time for your medication or mine?

Jimmy Buffett

Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.

Ellen Hopkins

No way to get away. No way to get away. Little change to sneak away... insanity.

Louis de Bernieres

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

Mackenzie Phillips

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Religion is induced insanity.

Luther Burbank

Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

Jonathan Franzen

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

Regina Spektor

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

Paulo Coelho

Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it.

Rita Mae Brown

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Richard Pryor

That's insanity. We must be good all the time.

Robin Williams

Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.

Robin Williams

You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter.

Virginia Woolf

A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

Stephen F. Lynch

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

Phil Collins

Perception determines insanity...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

Susanna Kaysen

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

Susanna Kaysen

Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Thomas Szasz

Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.

Toni Morrison

So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.

Tim Dorsey

I don't suffer from insanity. I can actually say that I enjoy it.

Tom Robbins

There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. It's always preferable to be in trouble with others. In fact, it may be essential.

Tom Ford

I'm a perfectionist, to the point of insanity.

Stephen Covey

One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.

Scott Adams

I'm curious how you'll know it works. I assume it's mostly a cosmetic change.

L. Ron Hubbard

The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now