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.
I felt proud that the baby’s first real adventure should be as a protest against the insanity of world annihilation. Already a certain percentage of unborn children are doomed by fallout, and no one knows the cumulative effects of what is already poisoning the air and sea.
One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it’s genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network.
For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for ‘Power’ for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.
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!
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
Batman gets close to the insanity of Gotham, to the craziness, to what drives that city mad, and not be driven mad himself – or, at least, most of the time he isn’t. That’s most like the mission of the C.I.A. We get into the heads of our enemies without becoming our enemy.
I’m really pretty ridiculous about how much I work on my music, and I don’t look at it as necessarily a good quality. I look at it as a side effect of my apparent insanity. It is what it is, man.
There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
When I’m in the kitchen, I don’t want anybody else in the kitchen. I have a system – and the system, it’s another form of insanity that has grabbed me.
Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn’t fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke.
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.
The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it’s impossible to be insane in Texas.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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.
If you think hard enough about it, Rowlf the dog playing the piano on ‘The Muppet Show’ – what kind of insanity was happening underneath the cameras to make that happen? His mouth is moving, and he’s got two hands playing the piano. That’s two people under there!
I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.
I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don’t even think it’s as much as what I want for myself. It’s more what I want for the people around me. That’s what I want.
The primary occupational hazard of blogging is this: it’s easier when you yourself take on some of the traits of insanity. It’s a job that requires the doer to be selfish, self-absorbed, and superficial.
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.
As a writer of fiction, you don’t ever want to limit the characters you create to the life you’ve lived. That’s insanity to me.
Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.
The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
I got to the point of insanity, but I also got out, but during the insane times, I felt invincible, and I felt creative and wonderful, too, but I was also hiding something.
‘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.
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