Top 100 Quotes About A Fanatic
#1. Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty - a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.
Anthony De Mello
#2. The difference between an idealist and a fanatic is the idealist is only 90% sure he's right.
Jim Payne
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. - John is a dangerous fanatic.
- And you are not ? - asked Dagon.
- I'm just dangerous.
Michael Scott
#8. 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
#9. A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.
Poul Anderson
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#15. 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
#16. The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.
Andrew Dickson White
#17. A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.
Will Rogers
#18. People will tie in with a fanatic if for no other reason than to break the monotony of their lives.
Mark Clifton
#19. Since childhood, I have been a cricket fanatic.
Ben Elliot
#20. Politics, religion and arrogance are problems of society but being a fanatic in any...makes you a danger to humanity.
Timothy Pina
#21. I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.
Hugh Laurie
#22. 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
#23. Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.
Armistead Maupin
#24. 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
#25. The world should take notice when someone ... with a fanatic mind and with powerful means, receives his marching orders from Heaven.
Rodrigue Tremblay
#26. Fanatics are those who, when following a doctrine becomes inconvenient, make up rules of their own.
Cathryn Louis
#27. I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.
Alessandro Nivola
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. The only trouble was that the scripture master, Mr. Ebenzar, was a fanatic.
R.K. Narayan
#31. Give me the outside of all things, I am a fanatic for the externality of things.
Jose Lezama Lima
#32. 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
#34. To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!
Emil Cioran
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. I'm not scared. The only thing that scares me is God. And guess what, Mina? God is not a fanatic.
Marjan Kamali
#39. Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. I would love to do a political drama. I'm a 'West Wing' fanatic.
Will Chase
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic.
Steve McManaman
#47. 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
#48. I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s.
Jesse Eisenberg
#49. I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.
Seth Gordon
#50. Basically I was a theatre fanatic. I had a job with Home Box Office as a theatre consultant for a long time.
Rob Urbinati
#51. I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
Dan Gable
#52. I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
Rachel Zoe
#54. You can't do it right too often:author bob wyrick.
A fanatic is a person who redoubles his effort after he's lost sight of his aim.
Eric Hoffer
#55. I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence.
Clive Barker
#56. Perhaps I should have seen that fanatic gleam, the quick response to a phrase, the magic sound of figures: Fifth Column, Third Force, Seventh Day. I might have saved us all a lot of trouble . . .
Graham Greene
#57. We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.
Kurt Vonnegut
#58. I was a college football fanatic, and I wanted to play, not sit on the sidelines. It's tough when you know you're just a project.
Chad Pennington
#59. I'm not a truthiness fanatic, I'm truthiness's father.
Stephen Colbert
#61. I'm a fanatic about Irish music. I love its moody, modal and timeless quality. I'm different from some other composers, because I don't look at this as just a job. I think of music as art.
James Horner
#62. I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.
Halle Berry
#63. Fear of dying must surely mean fear of how one dies. If one can be assured of a painless death, how can one fear it, unless one is a religious fanatic with a very guilty conscience?
Dimitris Mita
#64. If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#65. A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.
Richard Whately
#66. This present age is so flippant that if a man loves the Saviour he is styled a fanatic, and if he hates the powers of evil he is named a bigot.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#67. A true fanatic, his promptings were reasons enough for his actions.
Robert E. Howard
#68. I've always been a prog rock fanatic, even before Vengeance. However I think I started to love the genre with Pink Floyd, yeah. I love them from the very beginning, also the Syd Barrett era.
Arjen Anthony Lucassen
#70. If somebody in your life doesn't think you are a fanatic, you are probably backslidden.
David McGee
#71. I Am More Spiritual Than Religious; Besides I Am Not A Fanatic
Aamir Khan
#72. The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you're not a fanatic around here, you can't cut it.
Cesar Chavez
#73. I love London. I'm a London fanatic. That's my city.
John Boyega
#74. I'd been a fanatic of movies since I was a wee lad, so I got into the films before I got into the comics.
Josh Helman
#76. The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.
Voltaire
#77. I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.
Esther Dyson
#78. I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time.
Francesca Annis
#80. I'm a lifelong Simpsons fanatic and I wanted to create my own animated show, one day.
Jonah Hill
#81. Studios might not be able to figure out my leanings, but anyone who visits my blog or reads my Twitter feed or meets me in person will realize right away that I am a huge superhero fan and a fanatic about Superman in particular.
Chris Roberson
#82. A Harley Davidson fanatic,he owned two of them he told me proudly
Chris Thrall
#83. A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.
Poul Anderson
#84. Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one's vision of the world. If such obvious arrogance is not counterbalanced by the tribulations of doubt, all that remains is a monster who is to art what a fanatic is to faith.
Amelie Nothomb
#85. The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
Eric Hoffer
#86. Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience.
H.L. Mencken
#87. A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of them are the same. The thinking that, 'If you don't think like me, that if you are not with me, then you are against me;' this is something to condemn.
Marjane Satrapi
#88. And do you think that unto such as you
A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew
God gave a secret, and denied it me?
Well, well - what matters it? Believe that, too!
Omar Khayyam
#89. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man, and in all ways has proved Herself a more deserving object of man's worship than Christ, that unshaven fanatic who lusted for the end of the world.
Joe Hill
#90. I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.
Debbie Macomber
#91. I knew the Beatles songs and how influential they are to other bands, but I'm not a fanatic, so I could look outside the box and observe.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
#93. A religion is not the church a man goes to but the cosmos he lives in; and if any sceptic forgets it, the maddest fanatic beating an Orange drum about the Battle of the Boyne is a better philosopher than he.
G.K. Chesterton
#94. The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression
Albert Einstein
#95. ...experience has proved the distinction of active and passive courage. The fanatic who endures without a groan the torture of the rack or the state would tremble and fly before the face of an armed enemy.
Edward Gibbon
#96. I think there was a petition online to get me involved in 'Doctor Who.' I'm not a 'Doctor Who' fanatic, but I am a Steven Moffat fanatic.
Gina Bellman
#98. I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.
Cynthia Ozick
#99. Go too far outside "the box," of course, and you will encounter a vernacular that is much less "tolerant." Here, the key words are "fanatic," "troublemaker," "misfit" or "malcontent.
Christopher Hitchens
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