“My mum is in a mental hospital. There's a fine line between genius and insanity. Winston Churchill, Mozart, John Lennon. These people all had a touch of crazy that fuelled their brilliance. They were not locked up for it like my mum. Pft. Then again, Winston Churchill never tried to kill my dad.” PeopleLinesCrazyFineGeniusDadMy DadInsanityHospitalsLockedMumBrillianceFine LinesLocked UpLennon Author:Christopher Titus
“How come Mom is crazy and I'm not? Well, it's possible my mom could stand up in front of this many people and talk about all the crap in her life and those people could have sat around and laughed with her, it would've meant nothing and she could have moved on cool. It's also possible she could have taken out the whole front row with a large-caliber weapon.” PeopleWellsWholeTakenCrazyFrontsMomWeaponsMovedMy MomSatLaughedCrapMoved OnCaliber Author:Christopher Titus
“People used to make fun of alternative comedy because sometimes it would be someone being funny, and sometimes it was a crazy man with a flute making no sense. And it's very easy to be like, yeah, that's not really comedy.” PeopleMenSometimesWould BeUsedFunEasyComedyCrazyYeahAlternativesFlutesBeing FunnyCrazy Man Author:Eugene Mirman
“You know who doesn't get the death penalty? Crazy people. That's a defense in America. My client's crazy. He doesn't know what he did. Fine, then he doesn't know we're gonna kill him. If a guy's that retard, you put him the electric chair and tell him it's a ride.” PeopleIfsKnowsAmericaGuyCrazyFineDefenseChairsElectricClientsPenaltiesDeath PenaltyCrazy PeopleRetardElectric Chair Author:Bobby Slayton
“Now I understand why people do drugs, why people drink, and why people go crazy. As the success level goes up and up and up, the further detached I get from everybody else. Luckily, with my girlfriend, everything is gravy because I brought her into it. I brought her in and she's very hands on with my career.” PeopleHandsLevelsCareersCrazyDrinkDrugGirlfriendMy GirlfriendDetachedGravy Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“Plenty of crazy people in New York. There are so many crazy people here, I think it's like one out of every one person is completely out of their mind.” PeopleThinkingMindPersonsCrazyNew YorkPlentyCrazy People Author:Louis C. K.
“This beauty ideal is everywhere. You can't escape it - TV, wallpaper, posters, billboards, magazines. They put on these crazy perceptions about what people should look like. It's really shocking the way everybody is striving for this one thing, this ultimate beauty, but what is it?” PeopleWayShouldLooksOne ThingCrazyTvsPerceptionIdealsUltimateStriveMagazinesShockingPostersBillboards Author:Jurgen Teller
“The funny thing is a lot of people assume that my parents are the ones pushing me to make music. The truth is that I'm the one dragging them along on this crazy ride. They'd much rather have a normal life, but it doesn't look like that's in the cards.” PeopleLooksParentCrazyTruth IsNormalAssumingCardsPushingFunny ThingsNormal Life Author:Cheyenne Kimball
“I know it is crazy, every time I release something now people say I am becoming more rough and tough. I guess my direction has been changing, I think this new album is a better reflection of who I am as an artist and as a person, I have changed a lot since the Boyzone days.” PeopleThinkingKnowsPersonsHas BeensArtistCrazyChangedBecomingOne DayReflectionToughAlbumsWho I AmReleaseRoughBecoming MoreI Have Changed Author:Ronan Keating
“You'd never be able to convince someone to give you money to do a bilingual story where you're not translating half of it - you'd drive people crazy. But in comics, you can do whatever your heart desires.” PeopleGivingHeartStoriesAbleDesireCan DoHalfCrazyConvinceTranslateHearts Desire Author:Brian K. Vaughan
“We have multiple Black men and women losing their lives simply for being. Who gets to say you don't get to live anymore? I don't understand that. And it doesn't stop there. Can we go into the school system and look at the imbalance of what our children are learning? We are functioning crazy, people.” PeopleMenLooksChildrenSchoolBlackCrazyLosingMen And WomenOur ChildrenMultipleImbalanceSchool SystemCrazy People Author:Regina Belle
“Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, "Hey, we got a crazy man in the community," and they'll begin talking to you.” PeopleMenNeedsDoneSpeakCommunityTalkingCrazyTvsGoes OnSpeechHeyNeed YouCrazy Man Author:Ray Bradbury
“I never wanted to be the person who said, "I woulda, coulda, shoulda." Life is way too short, and you may not last that long. I dropped out of Yale after two years to pursue one of the most uncertain careers - modeling. That seemed like a crazy decision, especially coming from where I came from and given what Yale is. Most people I knew told me so. But I was following what my heart was telling me I needed to do. I took the risk. It could easily have not worked out, but it did. Phew!” PeopleWayYearsHeartMayPersonsLongSaidTwoWantedLastsLife IsGivenDecisionCareersRiskCrazyNeededMy HeartFollowingPursueTwo YearsUncertainToo ShortModelingRisk ItYaleLife Is Way Too ShortWoulda Coulda Shoulda Author:Joy Bryant
“We had people coming to our Foreign Relations Committee and saying, "Oh, we need to arm the allies of Al Qaida." They are still saying this. It is a crazy notion. This is the biggest debate we should be having is is regime change a good idea; has it been a good idea.” PeopleNeedsShouldStillsIdeasCrazyArmsRelationNotionDebateAlsAlliesGood IdeasRegimesCommitteesForeign RelationsRegime Change Author:Rand Paul
“As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people, and my grandfather's death. During my long period of observation, I felt that something like poems were filling up my body.” PeopleLongBodyKidsFeltSunCrazyObjectsWindPeriodsWindowSeasonsSickObservationGrandfatherFillingMy GrandfatherCrazy PeopleFilling UpSick Kids Author:Kim Hyesoon
“It's crazy to see people having tattooed my lyrics on their body, and quite frankly writing is just an outlet for my voice and getting it out there.” PeopleWritingBodyVoiceCrazyOutletsTattooed Author:Debby Ryan
“Understanding is the key to everything. To rage, fear, love. If you understand a situation, it's going to make you mad. Or it's going to make you feel fearful. If any of us even had a clue as to what Bush and those people were up to, we'd be running stark crazy mad out of fear.” PeopleIfsFeelsRunningUnderstandingSituationCrazyKeysMadRageFearfulClueStarksFear Of Love Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca
“A lot of sad things have happened to my friends' children, people you knew as babies. They've been killed or become crazy or all kinds of tragic things. There are some people whose children haven't talked to them in fifteen years. There's all kind of meshugaas in this world.” PeopleWorldYearsKindChildrenHappenedCrazyHavensThis WorldBabyMy FriendsAll KindsTragicFifteenFifteen YearsSad Things Author:Grace Paley
“Bartending was definitely crazy and fun, because you got to meet so many different people. Unlike people I worked with, I did not date a lot of men that I met while I was working - it's just not what you do.” PeopleMenDifferentFunCrazyMetsWorking ItDifferent PeoplesBartending Author:Toby Lightman
“I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.” PeopleWayNeedsI CanGuyPassionDarkCrazyScientistIncludingComedianOutletsExpress Yourself Author:Kevin Hart
“People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money.” PeopleIfsThinkingTurnsCrazyWorship Author:Paul Mooney
“It's crazy that we live in a world where if your super positive and super creative...it's scary. Because what does that tell you about the mentality of most people if your scared of like...positivity.” PeopleIfsWorldDoeCreativeCrazyScaredPositivityScaryMentality Author:Kanye West
“Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don't want it to ever end.” PeopleWayWantEndsCrazyEmotionalEmotional Things Author:Gwen Stefani
“I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.” PeopleFunCrazyCrazy People Author:Zooey Deschanel
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“There were times when I would suddenly realize making music is a crazy pipe dream. I would see bands that did super well in South Africa still struggling to survive, or even people on the international level who are doing well but financially can't really support themselves.” PeopleWellsStillsDreamRealizingLevelsSupportStruggleCrazyBandMusic IsSouthInternationalSouth AfricaPipePipe DreamsStruggling To Survive Author:St. Lucia
“Young people, we have this thing about us, this invincibility, because we're young and we're growing up and we want to have fun, and we want to be crazy, and nothing's wrong with that unless you're not being responsible.” PeopleWantYoungFunGrowing UpGrowingCrazyResponsibleHaving FunBeing ResponsibleBeing CrazyInvincibility Author:Rihanna
“The love is so powerful that both people have to surrender. I think that's the funny thing about dating somebody for the first time, it's kind of a question of who wears the pants, or who's gonna text you first, how much am I supposed to put myself out there, and it makes you feel a little bit crazy. But at the end of the day, it's not about that. And if it's the right person you don't have to worry about that.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsFirstsKindLittlesPersonsEndsBitsLove IsPowerfulWorryCrazyLittle BitFirst TimeDatingSurrenderThe End Of The DayPantsFunny ThingsRight Person Author:Zella Day
“Dishonest, which is Hillary Clinton in the eyes of the American people, beats crazy. Dishonest loses to normal. So, let's just pick somebody out of the phone book if we have to.” PeopleIfsBookEyeLosesCrazyNormalBeatsPicksClintonPhones Author:Lindsey Graham
“It's interesting that people who can perpetrate cons have talked themselves into believing that they're not doing anything bad. That they tell themselves that there is nothing wrong with what they're doing is the crazy thing about human behavior.” PeopleBelieveHumansInterestingCrazyBehaviorHuman BehaviorCrazy Things Author:Craig Zobel
“I want people to talk more. I mean, I watch Game of Thrones and there's all sorts of crazy nudity in it...and very little of which I can justify, except that it's in a titillating and somewhat exploitational manner, but I don't really feel like that's a subject that people are interested in because it's the same news story.” PeopleWantFeelsMeanLittlesI CanStoriesGamesWatchesCrazySubjectsNewsJustifyThronesNudityNews Stories Author:Craig Zobel
“I've always been curious about people's psychedelic experiences, and I kind of had this assumption that I was going to have some kind of crazy mindblowing psychedelia thing happening, but actually, it was very quiet, and I didn't have any hallucinations at all. Nothing changed, except that suddenly I could hear the voice of my conscience, which I didn't ever think of as being a real voice. And ever since having that experience, I've had that voice in my head and followed it occasionally.” PeopleThinkingKindRealVoiceCrazyChangedQuietHappeningsConscienceThings HappenCuriousAssumptionThings ChangePsychedelicHallucinationsPsychedelic ExperienceVoices In My Head Author:Larkin Grimm
“Eros doomed! I doubt it...eros seems to drive most relationships, and not just those between lovers. Erotic energy is a big powerful force, it shakes things up, causes people to break the rules, makes people do crazy things! Reason doesn't stand a chance in its face.” PeopleReasonBigsSeemsFacesEnergyForceCausesChancePowerfulBreakDoubtCrazyLoversShakesDoomedEroticErosCrazy Things Author:Micheline Aharonian Marcom
“I’ve always liked to read about extremely wealthy people, especially when they are crazy (like Howard Hughes or Caligula.) While writing this book I did a lot of fun research on robber barons like Rockefeller and Morgan. But the most helpful stuff came from studying royal families and mad emperors. The best book I read was probably A King’s Own Story, which is the memoir of Edward VIII. Also, anything about Ivan the Terrible or Ted Turner.” PeopleWritingBookStoriesFunStuffStudyCrazyKingsTerribleResearchMadMemoirHelpfulWealthyRoyalEmperorRobbersRoyal FamilyTurnerRobber Baron Author:Simon Rich
“As quiet as I am I find it amazing I can stand in front of hundreds of people now and make a speech because i've had to do it so much. I've so much support from the people around me that I can achieve something like that, crazy introvert that I am, I never would have thought that would happen.” PeopleI CanHappensSupportCrazyAchieveFrontsQuietSpeechIntrovert Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“I probably drive casting people crazy because I'm not thinking about actors so much as real people.” PeopleThinkingRealActorsCrazyCasting Author:Mike Judge
“I just watched the news. Seeing crazy people doing crazy stuff to other people and pretending that they're the good guys really helped.” PeopleGuyStuffSeeingCrazyNewsPretendingGood GuyCrazy People Author:Casper Crump
“I might sound like a crazy person, but that's the way I pump myself up. You know how some people are just like 'I have to talk about it'? Sometimes I'll call my husband and we'll talk about it, sometimes I have to talk to myself in the mirror. So I start talking to myself: 'You got this. Don't think of this as Sports Illustrated, just think about this as the best swimsuit campaign you've done in your life. And just kill it and own it and don't put that pressure on yourself.'” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayPersonsSometimesDoneMightSportsSoundTalkingKnow HowCrazyHusbandPressureMirrorsCampaignsMy HusbandPumpsCrazy PersonSports IllustratedSwimsuits Author:Ashley Graham