Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neal Shusterman

So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both: a directed burst of controlled insanity.

Jacque Fresco

If you remain conventional and don't change, you'll get along. You'll get along in the limited forms of insanity that exist out there. You'll never be able to keep a marriage together, you'll never be able to keep anything together, because the whole goddamn thing isn't together.

Henry Rollins

Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a touch insane... You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Phil Collins

Perception determines insanity...

L. Ron Hubbard

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

L. Ron Hubbard

The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. ...it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of the rehabilitation of the Bantu in South Africa would be mental health...

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.

Steve Tisch

I think that's the perception and I'm not saying it's not accurate.

Wallace Stevens

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Samuel Dash

Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.

Samuel Beckett

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

Salman Rushdie

Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up.

Lamar Odom

Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it.

Epictetus

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

Marty Bahamonde

There's the perception that we didn't do anything. But we had a life-saving mission, which we met, and we had a life-sustaining mission, which we met.

Jerry Sloan

Guys played a lot harder. They played a lot more determined to try to win, rather than the way we have been.

Mewelde Moore

He's a classy, determined individual. Those are the characteristics you love to see in a head coach.

Jim Clarke

Going back to the farm and isolating the virus will let us determine whether we have a concern.

Nick Cave

I was determined not to spend inordinate amounts of time on something I felt would fundamentally never get made.

Jay Weatherill

We've been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we're determined not to squander that opportunity.

Joe Barker

What is a threat to national security and who determines what is a threat to national security?

Alexei Miller

Today in fact we have determined the time frame and the scale. We are talking about large scale deliveries (of gas).

Linda Pinney

I thought, 'This is crazy; I have ADHD,' ... I was determined that this was a problem that needed to be solved.

Jeanne Shaheen

I think we need to get the measurements that Congress has mandated from the White House on how we're going to determine progress in Afghanistan.