Top 100 Fanatic Quotes
#1. Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty - a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.
Anthony De Mello
#2. The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#3. The difference between an idealist and a fanatic is the idealist is only 90% sure he's right.
Jim Payne
#4. And so what moved him onward and down the office building's stairway was not any sort of foolish hope that he could actually be saved, but competitive fury at the fact that he had been outdone by the suicidal improvisations of this fanatic.
Neal Stephenson
#5. I'm a Philadelphia sports fanatic. I still watch Phillies games on my iPad, which is basically admitting to having daily torture sessions.
Steve Capus
#6. For the first time in my life, I became actively interested in a book. Me the sports fanatic, me the game freak, me the only ten-year-old in Illinois with a hate on for the alphabet wanted to know what happened next.
William Goldman
#7. I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.
Murray Walker
#8. Feel eternity around you. Not as an idea, not as a nice intellectualization, but to really feel it; not to be some religious fanatic who's strung out on some weird idea of salvation to the exclusion of common sense.
Frederick Lenz
#9. In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design computer viruses, to trigger some kind of disaster. Indeed, catastrophe could arise simply from technical misadventure - error rather than terror.
Martin Rees
#11. - John is a dangerous fanatic.
- And you are not ? - asked Dagon.
- I'm just dangerous.
Michael Scott
#13. Not only a fanatic and an incendiary (two of the insults that dogged Defoe most closely in his lifetime), the author of Robinson Crusoe was also an egregious spiv, and a slave to bling.
Daniel Defoe
#14. Ladies, just know that when you grow your hair too long, you got about two inches difference between really hot, sexy supermodel - religious fanatic. Hot Maxim cover girl everybody wants a mouth kiss - unhealthy faith in your lord. Soft, silky, shiny hair everyone wants to touch - one of 12 brides.
Iliza Shlesinger
#15. I am a sports fanatic and being able to perform at halftime for the fans of the Steelers and the Jets is such a thrill for me.
Joe Nichols
#16. I was the biggest George Harrison fanatic in the world. He was raised Catholic; my parents are both ex-clergy, so I was raised Catholic, and I admired how he used his faith.
John Fugelsang
#17. A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.
Poul Anderson
#18. It's almost impossible to deal with a crazy man, except that he does have religious beliefs, and the world of Islam will be damaged if a fanatic like him should commit murder in the name of religion against 60 innocent people.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#19. Take care of the cojones and the frijoles will take care of themselves. Try to have getaway money - but don't be fanatic about it.
Robert A. Heinlein
#20. Im a popcorn fanatic. No matter how full I am, I can eat popcorn.
Julianne Phillips
#21. I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.
Jonah Hill
#22. The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
Emile M. Cioran
#23. Here and there among men, there are those who pause in the hurried rush to listen to the call of a life that is more real ... He who sees and hears too much is cursed for a dreamer, a fanatic, or a fool, by the mad mob who, having eyes, see not, ears and hear not, and refuse to understand ...
Harold Bell Wright
#24. Whatever else might be said about Nixon - and there is still serious doubt in my mind that he could pass for Human - he is a goddamn stone fanatic on every facet of pro football.
Hunter S. Thompson
#25. I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
George Orwell
#27. I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me ... a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.
Vincent Van Gogh
#28. They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do.
Guillermo Del Toro
#29. The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.
Andrew Dickson White
#30. A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.
Will Rogers
#31. People will tie in with a fanatic if for no other reason than to break the monotony of their lives.
Mark Clifton
#32. Since childhood, I have been a cricket fanatic.
Ben Elliot
#33. Theater has always been something that I've had an interest in, but I was never a devoted fanatic theater-goer.
Michael Riedel
#34. Politics, religion and arrogance are problems of society but being a fanatic in any...makes you a danger to humanity.
Timothy Pina
#35. Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
William Butler Yeats
#36. But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.
George Saintsbury
#37. I couldn't decide who was more annoying, the fanatic or the cynic.
Rick Yancey
#38. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse.
Eric Hoffer
#39. I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.
Hugh Laurie
#40. Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast ... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.
Edward Abbey
#41. Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.
Armistead Maupin
#42. Sunscreen is my number 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 tip. I'm a fanatic, partially because I live in L.A. and have fair skin and freckles, and partially because of my kids. My mom always made me wear sunscreen and I'm trying to be that mom for them.
Alison Sweeney
#44. How do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to widen it.
Charlie Munger
#45. The world should take notice when someone ... with a fanatic mind and with powerful means, receives his marching orders from Heaven.
Rodrigue Tremblay
#47. Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.
Bryant H. McGill
#48. The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#49. I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.
Alessandro Nivola
#50. I clean my house, although I have help. I'm on the floor getting spots. I can't stand a dirty house. I'm a cleaning fanatic.
Patti LaBelle
#51. I thought I was very pretty without hair. Naked, more honest somehow. No glamor, just bald old me. I seldom wore wigs or hats. But some people must have thought I was an exhibitionist or a religious fanatic.
Persis Khambatta
#52. If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.
William Wilberforce
#53. The only trouble was that the scripture master, Mr. Ebenzar, was a fanatic.
R.K. Narayan
#54. [Palestinians] are becoming religiously fanatic. Israel is becoming irrelevant. They do it for religious purpose, fanatic, they want to conquer the Middle East under the command of the Iranians.
Shimon Peres
#55. Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.
Thomas Moore
#56. Give me the outside of all things, I am a fanatic for the externality of things.
Jose Lezama Lima
#57. The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super-personal force: the Race, the Party, History, the Proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.
Lloyd Billingsley
#58. God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic ... The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.
Dolly Parton
#59. I'm a sports fanatic. It's hard for me to commit to the weekly, episodic nature of television, so for me, anytime that I can put a game on, that's what I do.
James Roday
#61. The fault, of course, is not in religion, but in the fanatic of every religion. Fanaticism remains the greatest carrier of the spores of fear, and the rhetoric of religion, with the hysteria it so readily generates, is fast becoming the readiest killing device of contemporary times.
Wole Soyinka
#63. To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!
Emil Cioran
#64. This world is like a dog's curly tail, and people have been striving to straighten it out for hundreds of years; but when they let it go, it has curled up again. How could it be otherwise? One must first know how to work without attachment, then one will not be a fanatic.
Swami Vivekananda
#66. I completely agree with Helmut Kohl. I am not an advocate of the "United States of Europe," nor am I an integration fanatic.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#67. My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible.
Josh Duhamel
#68. Overall, I think I'm in pretty good shape, but I'm not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic.
Cobi Jones
#69. My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic.
Corey Taylor
#70. I'm not scared. The only thing that scares me is God. And guess what, Mina? God is not a fanatic.
Marjan Kamali
#71. A religious fanatic is somebody who knows Jesus Christ better than you do.
Jim Kaat
#73. A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not.
Franklin P. Jones
#74. Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.
Simon Kuper
#75. Pauley Perrette: I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me on NCIS because I was comfortable with the language, I had studied criminal science in school for years.
Pauley Perrette
#76. Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley
#77. Nothing ever gets done unless it's done by a fanatic.
Martin Sheen
#78. My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!
Etta James
#79. Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so that's why I'm a basketball fanatic.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
#80. Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or suspecting that they did. The Alternative Hero is a weirdly compelling portrait of fanatic fandom which reads like High Fidelity at high volume.
Jay McInerney
#81. Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet.
Eric Hoffer
#82. Evil is international and the fanatic is international and universal. There is no difference between a Muslim fanatic, a Christian fanatic, even a secular fanatic.
Marjane Satrapi
#83. I would love to do a political drama. I'm a 'West Wing' fanatic.
Will Chase
#85. I was never really a comic-book fanatic.
J.J. Abrams
#86. Show me a man who fishes in winter, and I'll show you a fanatic. Actually, I'll get the better of the deal, because for sheer spectacle a fanatic doesn't hold a candle to a man who fishes in winter
Patrick F. McManus
#87. Beware of generalizations about any faith because they sometimes amount to the religious equivalent of racial profiling. Hinduism contained both Gandhi and the fanatic who assassinated him.
Nicholas Kristof
#88. One thing is clear, the president of North Vietnam is not a fanatic. He is a very strong and determined man, but capable of listening, something that is very rare in a person of his position.
Martin Niemoller
#89. It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die
neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.
E. M. Forster
#90. I'm such a fanatic about exercise that I opened my own gym, 3Sixty Cycling Studio, and I exercise almost every single day.
Bobbi Brown
#91. I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic.
Steve McManaman
#92. Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#93. Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, dangerous form of fanatic stupor.
Timothy Leary
#94. Certain bedrock principles arguably a true conservative mindset dictate a respect for life. A life-conserving sensibility means that guns are meant for self-defense, not for needless killing[ ... ] This gun owner is no gun nut; but a right-to-self-defense fanatic.
Ilana Mercer
#95. I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s.
Jesse Eisenberg
#96. I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.
Seth Gordon
#97. Basically I was a theatre fanatic. I had a job with Home Box Office as a theatre consultant for a long time.
Rob Urbinati
#98. I love books, I love art, I'm a fanatic nature and wildlife person. People assume I'm a political animal, power hungry, wanting to run for office. And anyone who knows me knows that none of that's true.
David Mixner
#99. I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
Dan Gable
#100. I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
Rachel Zoe
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