“I think everyone thinks their dad is a little bit odd or crazy. As they get older, they develop their own little habits. They have a certain way that they like to live their life, and nothing is going to interrupt that.” ThinkingWayLittlesCertainBitsCrazyHabitDadLittle BitOdd Author:Simon Bird
“We all make judgments on people, but some are much more brutal than others. It's easy to say, 'Ya know, I'm not crazy about what she's wearing,' but you don't have to be nasty about it, and you don't have to be public about it.” PeopleKnowsEasyCrazyJudgmentBrutalNasty Author:Joan Jett
“The interesting thing for me is that everybody felt that I was really wild when i was unbalanced and desperate to communicate something and didn't have a sense of purpose. But I've never been so crazy and wild as I am with my son or as I am now.” PurposeFeltInterestingCrazySonCommunicateDesperateMy SonInteresting ThingsUnbalanced Author:Angelina Jolie
“I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.” RealCharacterCrazyToughReal Life Author:Katee Sackhoff
“I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers. They have everything, they have money, and they're just mean-spirited. It's crazy.” PeopleKindMeanCountryWholeSchoolPlayerCrazyFootballClubsScaryPeersMiamiFootball PlayerSpiritedCheerleaderCliqueMean SpiritedCountry ClubsIdolized Author:Zoe Kravitz
“In a sense, touring is crazy. You go city to city playing the show over and over again. But there's something magic about being in front of people, so it's not like going through the motions every night. It's a different experience.” PeopleDifferentShowsNightCitiesMagicCrazyFrontsEvery NightTouringDifferent Experiences Author:G-Eazy
“I had a lot of fun writing things that died during dress rehearsal. Sometimes I remember the crazy ones that died even more fondly than the ones that did really well.” WritingWellsSometimesRememberFunCrazyDiedDressesRehearsal Author:John Mulaney
“It's nice when you're nervous and everybody's like, "Yeah, you should be nervous." Because a lot of times you're anxious and people say, "Relax. Shut up." And that just feels like, Well, I guess I'm also crazy.” PeopleFeelsShouldWellsNiceCrazyYeahNervousRelaxAnxiousShut Up Author:John Mulaney
“When you're really crazy you don't question it. Being aware of my behaviors stops them. Sure, a lot of people pick their cuticles, but how many people cut big parts of their skin off? It's unfair because I have been judged.” PeopleHas BeensBigsCuttingCrazyBehaviorPicksSkinsJudgedUnfair Author:Jenny Lawson
“Talk about the sickest dunk, we had one guy throw it off the library which was about 60-feet away, back onto the court it bounced, and he timed it, went over there and got it. It was outstanding, man. It was crazy.” MenGuyFeetCrazyCourtLibraryOutstanding Author:Darryl Dawkins
“I thought, "Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early adulthood." Those were my thoughts, and this was how this crazy book [Winter Journal] was composed. I've never seen a book with pictures like at the end, pictures related to things you've read before.” WritingWellsBookEndsCrazyChildhoodLateWinterMake SenseRelatedAdulthoodJournalMy ThoughtsEarly Childhood Author:Paul Auster
“I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else.” ThinkingSoulBitsCrazyIncapable Book:Conversations with Paul Auster Source: Conversations with Paul Auster
“A few years ago, before I stopped drinking, I was feeling very sorry for myself and very drunk, and I Googled 'Moby Sucks'. In less than one second something like 20 million responses came up... yeah, there has been a lot of loathing directed towards me, and it used to drive me crazy.” YearsHas BeensFeelingsUsedMillionsCrazyYears AgoYeahDrinkingResponseSorryDrunkLoathingDrive Me Crazy Author:Moby
“Because music wasn't free yet, they wouldn't really offer MP3s so you had to buy things to see if you liked it or not. Which is crazy if you think about how much music you bought and then didn't even like the stuff. It was a different world where bands made money off their music.” IfsThinkingWorldMadeDifferentStuffCrazyOffersBandDifferent WorldsMp3 Author:Marnie Stern
“You can have the platinum album, but when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world - it kind of gives a crazy offset.” WorldGivingFeelsKindStillsFoundCrazyHavensLike YouAlbumsPlaces In The WorldPlatinum Author:Kendrick Lamar
“I grew up going to punk shows, that kind of thing - I don't wanna make pop punk! - but I like the idea of people going totally crazy and it being really intimate, loud and super-aggressive, but combining that with pop music.” PeopleKindIdeasShowsCrazyGrewGrew UpPopsLoudIntimateAggressiveBeing RealPunkPop MusicCombining Author:Grimes
“Lately I've been really into screaming a lot through delay [effects], having seven people on stage topless going crazy, stuff like that. Really in your face, but maybe more organic than choreographed dance moves.” PeopleFacesMovingStuffCrazyEffectsStageSevenYour FaceDelayGoing CrazyDance Moves Author:Grimes
“Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a shaman artist.” LooksLittlesArtistCrazyInsane Author:Julian Schnabel
“I think it's crazy that Bill Cosby has a mugshot for alleged assaults 11 years ago with no physical evidence or proof besides these womens accounts of what he did to them an entire decade later.” ThinkingYearsCrazyEvidenceYears AgoAccountsBillsDecadesProofAssault Author:Jayceon Terrell Taylor
“I thought of America as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody's rich and there's stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it's not untrue.” AmericaStuffRichCrazyExcitingPakistanUntrue Author:Kumail Nanjiani
“I worked in a schizophrenic home when I was an undergrad. You learned to be jaded to the crazy things they would say to you, but there was one man that I always gave crazy respect to, even though he would say the exact same thing to me every single day.” MenHomeCrazyOne ManJadedSchizophrenicCrazy Things Author:Matt de la Pena
“Oscar Pistorius is now infamous for reasons that I think everybody knows about, but when I hit on his story and put it in the book, what I found fascinating was a description, from one of the scientists who helped Pistorius, of what the Paralympics will become. Because they don't place any restriction on enhancements for athletes, in the very near future the Paralympics will bear a closer resemblance to NASCAR than to the traditional Olympics. There will be a human-machine melding that will result in crazy feats of athleticism.” ThinkingKnowsHumansBookReasonStoriesFoundResultsCrazyBearsMachinesScientistAthleteTraditionalFascinatingDescriptionOlympicsOscarsRestrictionFeatsResemblanceInfamousNascarEnhancementAthleticism Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“I gave people the benefit of the doubt, thinking, so many people that appear very calm and even boring must have all these wild emotions and crazy ideas.” PeopleThinkingIdeasEmotionDoubtCrazyBenefitsCalmBoringBenefit Of The DoubtCrazy Ideas Author:Curtis Sittenfeld
“And you're headed to a place with no bath and no shower. So you can just imagine how crazy it is to get up there, take your diaper off, have a urine-soaked crotch, and all you can do is wet a washcloth and wipe your skin off. You also have to do it on landing and spacewalks, too. It's not a ride that makes you springtime fresh.” Can DoImagineCrazySkinsGet UpWetShowersBathsWipeSpringtimeLandingDiapers Author:Mike Mullane
“Intimacy is important in my work because I don't understand existence without intimacy. All of us are dependent on other people - and in ways we don't know. You cross the street and assume that person isn't crazy, they don't want to mow me down with their car. I don't know that person but I am already in a relationship with them. I am asking them to abide by the traffic laws. If they decided not to, I'd be dead. Even in those anonymous ways, we're in relationships.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWantPersonsImportantLawExistenceCrazyStreetsCarCrossesDecidedAskingAssumingIntimacyDependentTraffic Author:Claudia Rankine
“We sometimes drive ourselves crazy with how our books will be "seen," when in fact we already know what they're about, and where our obsessions are. If we can spin those obsessions into fiction, then there's a decent chance they will be "fiction-worthy," as you call it. The idea of the "sweep of ideas" is a complicated one.” IfsKnowsBookIdeasSometimesFactsChanceFictionCrazyComplicatedWorthyObsessionDecent Author:Meg Wolitzer
“The best memoirs - like This Boy's Life, or Crazy Brave [by Joy Harjo], for instance - bring you through a private river of storytelling that joins a major ocean of human struggle and joy. The act of enunciation - the forms and strategies of storytelling - are every bit as literarily serious as they are in poetry or other prose forms.” HumansFormJoyBitsBoysStruggleCrazySeriousOceanMajorsRiversStrategyBraveMemoirStorytellingInstanceProse Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“There are studies that have shown that we make decisions, ethical and otherwise, based on the way we imagine ourselves as characters in the stories of our lives. In other words, if we imagine ourselves brave or crazy or open, we're more likely to make decisions in a given situation based on how we imagine ourselves, whatever the facts may be.” IfsWayMayCharacterFactsStoriesGivenDecisionSituationStudyOur LivesImagineCrazyBraveEthical Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that.” WayLanguageConsciousnessCrazyFigures Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“Addicts have incredible energy, it's just all directed toward one goal. But what incredible luck and grace addicts have. You hear about it all the time, getting into some kind of crazy situation in order to get drugs or to get money for drugs, pulling off something where they fall from a building and land on a truck full of pillows. It's incredible will, and if you learn to focus that will on getting better instead of getting worse it's amazing what you can do with that. You can use that strength and resourcefulness for something real instead of scoring dope in a desert.” IfsKindRealUseOrderFallEnergyGoalCan DoSituationFocusGraceCrazyLandBuildingDrugLuckIncrediblesDesertGet BetterPullingAddictTruckPillowDopeGet MoneySomething RealResourcefulness Author:Bucky Sinister
“I'm always afraid going into strange places, but I also choose carefully and listen to my instincts. These were men I could trust. I'm a pretty good judge of crazy versus sad. I prefer sad.” MenCrazyStrangeJudgingInstinctVersusStrange PlacesGood Judges Author:Laurel Nakadate
“I think there are a lot of crazy guys that I've played with in the past. Wayne VanDorp, when I played in Chicago. He wasn't a big name, but my God was he nuts.” ThinkingBigsPastGuyNamesCrazyChicagoNutsWayne Author:Jeremy Roenick
“My life is so tumultuous. I dive into everything. I'm feeling all up and down and sleepy and moody and hormonal - it just gets crazy. Just to keep myself balanced, I do things like yoga and meditation.” FeelingsLife IsMeditationCrazyYogaDown AndBalancedUp And DownSleepyMoody Author:India.Arie
“Most visual artists, just like most writers, tend to be solitary. While they're doing the art, that is. They may have a crazy orgy that morning, but at a certain point they kick everybody out, and say: "Come, go home. Yeah, I had a great time too." And then you're alone again, and then you're freshly inspired and energized.” MayArtHomeArtistCertainMorningCrazyYeahInspiredKicksVisualsSolitaryGreat TimesVisual ArtHad A Great TimeVisual Artist Author:Eric Drooker
“As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.” PeopleKnowsNeedsFeelsMindHumansHuman BeingsCrazyNot Alone Author:Billy Joel
“Taking fear seriously is not easy. A lot of people's response to fear is "Don't worry so much, it's crazy." But some things absolutely deserve our fear, and climate change is first among them.” PeopleFirstsEasyWorryCrazyDeserveClimateResponseClimate Change Author:Margaret D. Klein
“In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.” KnowsWritingPlayAgeAbleJobsLastsSongKnow HowCrazyMadnessBirthdayIncompetence60th Birthday Author:Billy Joel
“I remember trying to work out like crazy to get rid of all of my womanly features because I thought they made me fat.” TryingMadeRememberCrazyWork OutFatsFeaturesWomanly Author:Coco Rocha
“Amphibians are dying out like crazy, and frogs and salamanders may be largely extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. Imagine an animal that begins its life in the water, but ends it on land - already, that's pretty weird. But, also, a lot of them are incredibly tiny and look wildly improbable. They have funny little toes, they stretch their throats into weird bubble shapes when they croak, and some of them are poisonous to the touch. I think kids from the twenty-second century might mythologize amphibians the way kids today mythologize dinosaurs.” ThinkingWayFirstsLooksMayLittlesEndsMightKidsTodayWaterAnimalImagineCrazyLandCenturyDyingShapesTwentiesTinyHaving FunThroatBubblesToesFrogsDinosaursImprobablePoisonousAmphibiansSalamanders Author:Annalee Newitz
“On the one hand, I'm a kind of crazy anarchist-sympathizer with a hippie background, so this sounds pretty good to me. Make something for the love of it! But the reality is so much more complicated.” KindHandsRealitySoundCrazyComplicatedBackgroundsHippieAnarchist Author:Astra Taylor
“One of the things is my process requires a lot of repetition. I can probably drive people crazy because I'm interested in playing a song twenty times in a row.” PeopleI CanSongProcessCrazyTwentiesRepetition Author:Craig Finn
“When my youngest daughter got married, I designed her wedding dress and I really let my imagination and energy go crazy! All the journalists seemed to love that dress.” EnergyImaginationCrazyMarriedDaughterDressesJournalistMy ImaginationWedding DressYoungest Daughter Author:Kansai Yamamoto
“Not to give too big of a spoiler, but I never find myself thinking, for example, Oh, remember that crazy time I stumbled on that closeted Republican candidate's sex tape?” ThinkingGivingBigsRememberSexCrazyExampleRepublicanCandidatesTapeSpoilersCrazy Times Author:Kathleen Rooney
“Exploring the different avenues and being open to synchronicity and crazy coincidences and little things happening is part of going on your journey to investigate - and the little jewels you might find along the way, my job is to bring those back home and put them on my album.” WayLittlesDifferentHomeMightJobsJourneyCrazyHappeningsAlbumsThings HappenLittle ThingsExploringCoincidenceJewelsAvenuesBack HomeSynchronicity Author:Bat for Lashes
“I think the best cure is to stop doing the thing that you think you should be doing and go and have a bit of fun in another medium, maybe other crazy things.” ThinkingShouldFunBitsCrazyMediumsCuresCrazy Things Author:Bat for Lashes
“The hardest thing in a novel is time. You've got [a line like] "two weeks later, he woke up with a headache," and you've got to add up that entire two weeks and what the date is and whether it works. That kind of stuff drives me crazy and if I don't have it exactly right, I can't move forward because I don't feel confident.” IfsFeelsKindI CanTwoMovingStuffLinesNovelWeekCrazyAddHardestMoving ForwardHardest ThingTwo WeeksHeadacheDrive Me Crazy Author:T.C. Boyle
“When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong. What's crazy is that my thinking is not a new insight. The very first large-scale study of character, still one of the largest ever, was done in the early 1900s by Hugh Hartshorne, an ordained minister and a scientist.” PeopleThinkingFirstsStillsDoneCharacterStrongStudyCrazyLowsScientistNotionInsightScalesMinistersVery StrongDiggingLarge Scale Author:L. Todd Rose
“I wish I could have hung out with Patti Smith in the seventies, and also have some crazy times.” WishCrazyHungSeventiesCrazy Times Author:Ellie Goulding
“I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper.” CrazyPaperPensRevising Author:John Dufresne