Great Craziness Quotes

#1. There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

Carl Sagan

#2. If monks are crazy to live the way they do, maybe the world needs more such craziness, what Matthew Kelty has termed 'the madness of great love.' My narrow world had just opened wide, and I had glimpsed such a love.

Kathleen Norris

#3. man is not truly one, but two

Robert Louis Stevenson

#4. On this walk I'd had so much time and space to actually figure out who I was without my mother's influence. I understood now: the things that my mother had found made her happy were not the same as the things that made me happy. And I understood: that was okay.

Aspen Matis

#5. I'm tired of getting made fun of.

Geraldo Rivera

#6. Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue ...

Billy Joel

#7. In Divorce American style, there was the discomfort of seeing one of the beautiful wasted actresses of the screen, Jean Simmons. Her suggestions of sensibility - what she embodies - were too fine for the world of that movie. Her presence made the movie she was trapped in seem uglier.

Jean Simmons

#8. The great craziness of men and women is precisely that: love.

Paulo Coelho

#9. Craziness in a shoe is great - you can have much more freedom, you can exaggerate and it doesn't feel stupid. But to have too much craziness near your face, that would just feel weird.

Miuccia Prada

#10. I live on the edge of Bath. It's really lovely, but its very loveliness freaks me out a bit. It's peaceful, a great antidote to the craziness of being on tour, but sometimes I feel as though I've retired.

Alison Goldfrapp

#11. You just knew you were in great hands with somebody so talented, so bright and with such depth. We both [with Ellen Page] loved the script and the book [Into the Forest], which I read after I read the script, and highlighted it and dog-eared it to craziness.

Evan Rachel Wood

#12. I started getting orders from some of the leading stores Fred Segal, Bergdorf Goodman. I realized then that my bags were being noticed by the fashion world.

Kate Spade

#13. I don't like people telling me what to do. I'm very independent.

Jacques Villeneuve

#14. New York is more exciting, I guess, than even Paris or London. New York's the center of something; I don't know what, really - the center of a lot of things. With all its problems and chaos and craziness, it's still a great place to live. I can't see myself living anywhere else.

Robert De Niro

#15. Look for the blessing in all situations.

Wayne Dyer

#16. A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

Alison Krauss

#17. Sincerity? I can fake that.

William J. Clinton

#18. There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.

John Irving

#19. I'm always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then I'm completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know ... It's just really remarkable.

Kevin Spacey

#20. I went to the opening of 'Sister Act,' and I had such a great time. I had no idea what it was about, and I had never seen the movies. But I heard the show went through some major last-minute craziness in previews, and man, opening night was really fun and really entertaining.

Aaron Lazar

#21. The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed.

C.S. Lewis

#22. But we can control ourselves - right now, in this moment. That's something. Maybe it's everything.

Therese Walsh