Quotes About Lunatic

People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

The Old Man was a lunatic, but he was a good, kind lunatic, and he couldn't no more be a sane man in his transactions with his fellow white man than you and I can bark like a dog, for he didn't speak their language. He was a Bible man. A God man. Crazy as a bedbug. Pure to the truth, which will drive any man off his rocker. But at least he knowed he was crazy. At least he knowed who he was. That's more than I could say for myself.

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.

The idea had been ridiculed in the scientific press, while it was immediately picked up by the lunatic fringe and incorporated into dozens of fringe religions. Once that happened, how could a scientist hope to get funding for such a project?

You are crazy! whispered Meggie. You're a total lunatic! But her opinion did not impress Fenoglio in the slightest. So what? All writers are lunatics!

Nonsense is the new sense. To truly understand the world we are in today, you have to be a writer, or an actor, or a lunatic.

The truth, that I haven't heard from you since your press conference. What kind of daughter doesn't call her mother after a lunatic blows his brains out in her living room?

You're a lunatic. You ran me over with a goddamn Buick.

Probably, it's like driving the turnpike," Connie said. "Probably, you get used to it. The way I see it, living in New Jersey is a challenge, what with the toxic waste and the eighteen-wheelers and the armed schizophrenics. I mean, what's one more lunatic shooting at you?

Occasionally, I go off the rails. I once nearly killed somebody once - it wasn't funny. I am a lunatic. The pressure of work, the pressure - everyone has a stop valve, and I don't have one.

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.

Really the answers I get are idiotic. The entire correspondence of you and Robbie with me should be published. The best title would be Letters from Two Idiots to a Lunatic, I should fancy.

I'm a lunatic by nature, and lunatics don't need training – they just are.

An enviable lunatic! One for whom a pebble has value must be surrounded by treasures wherever he goes.

Zobrist may have been a lunatic, he thought, but he certainly had a sophisticated grasp of Dante.

I'm a lunatic wandering around for scraps.

There was the cell where Fr. Eulalio, a thriving lunatic of eighty-six who was castigating himself for unchristian pride at having all the vowels in his name, and greatly revered for his continuous weeping, went blind in an ecstasy of such howling proportions that his canonization was assured.

Dude, you didn't fugue, you were just berserk. That's like comparing a lunatic to a pissed guy with goals.

What a country, America. A lunatic asylum, without enough attendants or tranquilizers.

Feudalism, that discreet system of gentlemen gangsters and serfs, had never died out in the region, and was concealed in the trappings of modern buildings and streets. Only a lunatic would quarrel with his master; only a fool would not understand that he stood in the steel jaws of death his entire life.

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be the Devil of Hell.

If she says goodbye perhaps adieu. Adieu - like those old time songs she sang. Always adieu (and all songs say it). If she too says it, or weeps, I'll take her in my arms, my lunatic. She's mad but mine, mine. What will I care for gods or devils or for Fate itself. If she smiles or weeps or both. For me.

Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.

The problem is that the government of the U.S., in particular, has encouraged the idea that anyone attempting to expose the facts is either an addict or a lunatic. I must admit that I have become an addict of seeking the truth because the alternative is much too dangerous for all humankind.