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Quotes About Lunatic

It is extraordinary that among these learned and professional men, only a deluded lunatic appears to have known the meaning of the word, and that from reading – or being told about – the work of a German sexologist. It is, perhaps, indicative of the general ignorance of sex (and, indeed, of the lower status of women)
~ Philip Hoare
And unlike the rest of you, he hasn't yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won't do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.
~ Aaron Allston
America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.
~ Matt Taibbi
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh, yes. I've no doubt in my own mind that we have been invited here by a madman—probably a dangerous homicidal lunatic.
~ Agatha Christie
The judge nodded gently. He said: 'Oh, yes. I've no doubt in my own mind that we have been invited here by a madman—probably a dangerous homicidal lunatic.
~ Agatha Christie
He understood that it only took one lunatic and a torch to bring everything to ruin.
~ Raymond Carver
He was officially a lunatic, she decided. Strangely, that didn't make him less attractive.
~ Kate Atkinson
Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.
~ Amit Kalantri
A lunatic is indeed properly one that hath lucid intervals; sometimes enjoying his senses, and sometimes not, and that frequently depending upon the change of the moon.
~ WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
~ Garrett Fort
I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
This is a powerful message from our government: we will not be intimidated by bombs; we will not be intimidated by poison; this is America, if you're a violent, paranoid lunatic, you must use a gun!
~ Bill Maher
At one apex is a paranoid lunatic, at another is a lonesome outcast: Kurt Gödel, the greatest logician of many centuries; and Alan Turing, the brilliant code breaker and mathematician.
~ Janna Levin
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
~ Ezra Pound
Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.
~ Lord Mountbatten
All I know is that things seem to happen. And, my dear, there are lunatic asylums all over the world filled with people who dabbled in the occult.
~ William Peter Blatty
Contrary to what you may think, the legal system was neither founded upon nor designed to reflect the common decency found in normal human relationships. It primarily works like the rules for a lunatic asylum. It tries to govern people driven insane by the inflated idea of their own worth.
~ David Rhodes
From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.
~ Dean Koontz
Lately, in this city I love, this neighborhood I love, all I seem to notice are the intrusions. Hot Air. Reeking garbage. Lunatic neighbors...I am inventing filters. Air filters. Stinking garbage filters. Lunatic-neighbor filters... Sometimes I imagine plugging a big air conditioner to the front of my head so I can block the rest of the world out. That's not right.
~ Jeanne Marie Laskas
The princess hardly showed herself; Anna was English, besides being more or less of a lunatic — the combination, when you came to think of it, was alarming, — and they soon wearied of pouring into each other's highly sceptical ears descriptions of the splendours of their prosperous days.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
The French, one columnist noted, called a million million a trillion, while 'for us on the other hand, a trillion is equal to a million billion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000), and we must only hope to God that we don't get into these or even higher numerical values with our everyday currency, merely because of the overcrowding of the lunatic asylums that it would cause.
~ Richard J. Evans
Soft cheese is a reminder that all cheese is just milk that crawled into a ditch to die, then some lunatic came along, spread the corpse on a saltine, and invented hors d'oeuvres.
~ Richard Kadrey
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
~ Kerry Thornley