Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonin Artaud

So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastiness.

Ben Okri

Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.

George Bernard Shaw

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

Herman Melville

Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.

James Bryant Conant

It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.

A. E. Housman

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

Werner Herzog

I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.

Theresa Wise

This is a fantastically sensible idea. With the convergence of telecom and broadcasters through interactive television, there is a real need for a single regulator.

Michael Adams

It was a tough call, but a sensible one.

Charles Kennedy

Ours is a stable country. Ours is a sensible country. And ours is a fundamentally decent country.

Matthias Platzeck

Arbitration is a sensible suggestion which it is worth discussing.

Georg Greve

There could be something that addresses this if we can find a sensible way to put it.

Albert Camus

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

Paul Ashworth

It is quite sensible for them to sit back and see where they are.

John Henry Newman

It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.

Gustav Mahler

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.