Famous Quotes & Sayings

Conrad Black

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

Danny Elfman

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

David Frost

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.

David Frost

Now he's miserable and depressed.

David Fincher

Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and follow them through the movie, that is not what moviemaking is, that is not what it’s about. It’s not just about getting a performance. It’s also about the psychology of the cinematic moment, and the psychology of the presentation of that, of that window.

Criss Angel

No one has the ability, that I'm aware of, to do anything supernatural, psychic, talk to the dead.

Claude C. Hopkins

Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring

Clive Barker

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.

Andrew Sarris

I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.

Andrew Weil

As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.

Christopher Walken

I'm not much of an analyzer or a psychologist.

Amy Chua

There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.

Anne Sexton

My safe, safe psychosis is broken. It was hard. It was made of stone. It covered my face like a mask. But it has cracked.

Anne Michaels

To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.

Alexander McQueen

I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches.

Debbie Ford

By choosing not to allow parts of ourselves to exist, we are forced to expend huge amounts of psychic energy to keep them beneath the surface.

Don DeLillo

Perhaps we've invented conspiracies for our own psychic well-being, to heal ourselves.

Dario Argento

Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

David Chalmers

Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century.

Curtis Sittenfeld

There are a lot of things in the world that are a lot weirder than psychic abilities, that we accept as true.

Curtis Sittenfeld

There's a lot that's not explained about the universe. And psychic-ness is not stranger than that.

Darrell Hammond

I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.

Alfred Hitchcock

I like stories with lots of psychology.

Alfred Adler

My psychology belongs to everyone.

Amy Sedaris

If I put my mind to something, it happens. I do know that's not necessarily psychic. But I always feel like there's something around me protecting me.

I think I psyched myself out getting to the basket.

I would really like to know what the psyche is of a person who litters.

Carrie Fisher

Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I'm a PEZ dispenser and I'm in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can't have it all?

Carl Sagan

Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.

Bill Vaughan

When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology .

Carl Jung

Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead a separate existence in the unconscious, being at all times ready to hinder or to reinforce the conscious intentions.

Carl Jung

We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives.

Carl Jung

There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.