Insanity Quotes

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.
Jonathan Franzen

Level, Inflicted

In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.
Lou Reed

Rock, Before, Perfect

There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff - something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
Patrick Swayze

Worth, Stuff, Call

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.
Mercedes McCambridge

Death, Live, Human

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed; they just fail to act on that knowledge.
Jeffrey Kluger

Knowledge, Wrong, Between

I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
Eddie Vedder

Music, Time, Great

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.
Michael Sheen

Life, Death, Human

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.
Megan Gallagher

Big, Between, Difference

I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
Fergie

Work, Try, Sometimes

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
Edvard Munch

Life, Death, Sickness

Religion is induced insanity.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Religion, Induced

Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity.
Tippi Hedren

Stop, Wild, Needed

It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets.
Tippi Hedren

Become, Stop, Cats

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!
Don Johnson

Business, Failure, Nothing

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.
Patty Duke

Human, Between, Beings

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
Alexander Herzen

Everything, Childhood, Italy

Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.
Barbara Kruger

Work, Crazy, Place

We're much more controlled now. We were kids back then, we each had our own demons. It was insanity.
Peter Criss

Kids, Demons, Controlled

Quentin Tarantino is controlled insanity, I would say. He's very loud and fun. I don't think there's anybody on the planet like him that I have ever met.
Rose McGowan

Fun, Him, Anybody

There's the Hollywood sign; there's Griffith Observatory; there's the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. It's 465 square miles of insanity and the best food on the planet.
Robert Crais

Great, Best, Food

Well, 'They Live' was a primal scream against Reaganism of the '80s. And the '80s never went away. They're still with us. That's what makes 'They Live' look so fresh - it's a document of greed and insanity. It's about life in the United States then and now. If anything, things have gotten worse.
John Carpenter

Life, Live, Greed

What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.
Ronnie Dunn

Creativity, Around, Between

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
Cesare Lombroso

I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
Barry Mann

Writing, Married, State

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.
Isabelle Huppert

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

Fear, Through, Before

Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody.
David Shuster

Down, Hurts, Lies

It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.
Malcolm Wallop

Freedom, Election, Party

No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.
Evan Daugherty

Work, Stress, Down

I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead of heeding the few voices of protest against all that mass insanity and slaughter.
George Grosz

War, Lost, Against

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