Quotes About Hysterical

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

We've hired the calmest babies in the world to play the hysterical Thomas. One did finally start to cry but stopped every time Chris [Newman (assistant director)] yelled 'Action'. ... Babies smiled all afternoon. Buddhist babies. They didn't cry once. We, however, were all in tears by 5 p.m.

A red-faced, hysterical woman is very easy to disregard, and I'm always looking for a reason to disregard.

Disbelief could be a product of hysteria just as much as belief.

She couldn't act like a mother if she tried!" said Martha. "This is even better than I thought it would be!" said Ruby, laughing so hard she fell to the floor and rolled around in fits. Soon Martha joined her, and the two were laughing so hard they were crying, causing their makeup to drip down their hysterical faces.

Stevie could go from zero to hysterical in six seconds. She was the Ferrari of panic.

Tenzij u iets beters weet, dottore, stel ik voor dat we dit verderfelijke moeras optillen en als een natte doek over het centrum van de stad leggen.' 'Geheel en al wat ook ikzelve vind!' zei de geleerde. Matt was bijna hysterisch van vermoeidheid. Strak plan,' zei hij. 'Doen we even. Koud kunstje.

One of the ugliest characteristics of today's world is the mixture of frantic war preparations with hysterical peace propaganda, and the fact that both come from the same source—from the same political philosophy. If mankind is ever to achieve peace, the first step will be made when people realize that today's peace movements are not advocates of peace.

I love the way the American trade magazines never give anybody a bad review because they're afraid the advertising will be taken out. It's so hysterical.

What we see of madness is mostly a set of defense mechanisms against it, against the void and the anxiety that are madness. We see the obsessive ceremonies, the phobias, the hysterical symptoms, but all that is already part of a solution of the problem, unsatisfactory as it may be.

I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical!

I'm a great audience myself. I tried to keep in the background while others were on, but sometimes I'd just get hysterical.

The hysterical competitiveness in the media bazaar has subverted the traditional hierarchy of news.

Immigration enthusiasts are so hysterical.

American officers in the Philippines find certain tribes bothersome about this time, and New York policemen are mobbed by hysterical Levantines on the night of March 22–23.

Women want equality until they think that acting hysterical can give them an edge. Then suddenly, they're the victims of their hormones.

Saul Strauss used to be what Gavin would consider committed and passionate in a namby-pamby, Kumbaya-like, eco-green, granola-y, unrealistic sort of way, but more and more, the Sauls of the world had raised their rhetoric to the dangerously hysterical

Psychoanalysis is the transformation of hysterical misery into common unhappiness.

The will-to-power, when it can find no outlet, is directed inwards; the frustrated impulse plays havoc with the sufferer's own nerves. Before puberty, Mary had not infrequently had convulsive seizures and had given other signs of excessive nervous excitability. When it became obvious to her that such attacks aroused sympathy and attention, she began consciously or unconsciously (the border line is hard to define) to cultivate these hysterical fits.

"Really, there are two types of people who go bowling. There are people who really, really love bowling. Then there are the people that are like: wouldn't it be hysterical if we went bowling?"

Red Dawn' was very resonant with a lot of people - they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical.

The black instrument on the hall table trilled its hysterical note over and over, like a nervous bird.

We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue.

Then he lost all coherence and began a hysterical giggle, compounded with a slight twitch and very pronounced emission of saliva from his mouth. When he finally fell silent, the stillness was of that horrified kind that follows a fart in a Methodist church.