Top 100 Quotes About Paranoid
#1. There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can't.
Shirley Maclaine
#2. Paranoid eyes with the fusion of passion and duplicity.
J.G. Ballard
#3. Clearly North Korea is a very strange situation because it is such an isolated country run by a handful of dictators, or maybe just one, who seems to be somewhat paranoid. And, who had nuclear weapons.
Bernie Sanders
#5. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
Blake Crouch
#6. Rodney is fifty four and he has some mental disease where they become all paranoid. Granted he spent his life as a vampire slayer which calls for a bit of paranoia but Rodney does sometimes overdo the whole thing.
Cyma Rizwaan Khan
#7. Someone will say to me, Oh that's so Jewish to interrupt. I say to myself, okay, is that code for you hate Jews? Or am I just being paranoid?
Jill Soloway
#8. Every time someone started shouting about the supposed monopoly of the Circle, or the Circle's unfair monetization of the personal data of its users, or some other paranoid and demonstrably false claim, soon enough it was revealed that that person was a criminal or deviant of the highest order.
Dave Eggers
#9. I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.
Jack Canfield
#10. They were as different as honesty and truth, but it takes experience to see the dissimilarities. Rocky was friendly, outgoing and boisterous; Charger was sullen, withdrawn and paranoid. Rocky liked people; Charger didn't. Rocky could trust; Charger didn't know the meaning of the word.
Joel M. McMains
#11. We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. It's not much, but it's always better than the deadly, defeatist certainty of the paranoid.
Philip K. Dick
#12. One of the most surreal aspects of the NSA stories based on the Snowden documents is how they made even the most paranoid conspiracy theorists seem like paragons of reason and common sense.
Bruce Schneier
#13. For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end ... such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.
C. Wright Mills
#14. I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.
Wayne Rogers
#15. I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.
Warren Ellis
#16. We went into the laser tag room, paranoid, delirious, and shot at one another. It was a little like Lord of the Flies but with more 98 Degrees.
Katie Heaney
#17. I got really paranoid, burning every song onto three CDs and hiding them in various places around the house just in case I got burgled and there was, y'know, a fire in my bedroom. I told friends where I was hiding them in case I was killed.
Max Tundra
#18. Paranoid can also be defined as "carefully smart"! Almost every episode of SVU is based on a true story; I'd watched my fill until they moronically cut Detective Stabler's fine-ass character.
Angela Graham
#19. Maybe I was just being paranoid. But that's the thing about the game. If you weren't paranoid, you were dead already.
Allison Van Diepen
#20. I think one of the odd things about public life, coming from the outside, is that people seem to be paranoid. Maybe they were quite frank initially, but then they did one thing which went wrong.
Rory Stewart
#21. I'm a paranoid person. And I think - I'm the kind of person that can come up with lots of negative scenarios. But I remembered thinking that seemed like - that was a stretch even for me.
Conan O'Brien
#22. He's paragon schnitzophonic." "He's what?!" "Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al. "You mean paranoid schizophrenic?
Sara Gruen
#23. I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.
Umberto Eco
#24. I love conspiracy theories. I used to just live on it. You know it's all hype and garbage, but you're still really paranoid afterwards. It's fun entertainment.
Doug Stanhope
#25. Julie took the paper and looked at the fifteen-digit password. Paranoid much?
Jessica Park
#26. Serge's attention-deficit disorder was the first of many hyphens. Obsessive-compulsive, manic-depressive, anal-retentive, paranoid-schizophrenic. He was believed to be the only self-inflicted case of shaken-baby syndrome.
Tim Dorsey
#27. Paranoid art, unlike paranoid persons, also distrusts itself. And so, paranoid art is the ultimate opposite, the urgent opposite, of complacent art.
Jonathan Lethem
#28. Mubarak was so paranoid that anyone he perceived as competent became a threat to him.
Wael Ghonim
#31. Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#32. Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
Taylor Dayne
#33. When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.
Helen Mirren
#34. I'm constantly paranoid that I'll be unemployed for the rest of my life ... and have to go back folding shirts at the Gap, which you know ... you gotta do what you gotta do.
Constance Wu
#35. I'm terrified of bugs and I travel with sprays, lotions, potions; the lot. I have to check the room before I go to sleep and if I come across a bug and fail to remove it I have to sleep in a separate room as I'm paranoid that I'll be taken advantage of as I sleep.
Freema Agyeman
#37. And when you're a weird and awkward and paranoid person at all times, CastieCon is the happiest place on the planet.
It's like, a baseline level of freakiness is expected here, right? So unless you're disemboweling goats in the vendor hall, no one gives a damn who you are or what you're doing.
J.C. Lillis
#38. You know you're writing a good thriller when you make yourself paranoid.
Shirley B. Garrett
#39. The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.
Barry Eisler
#40. we see that the enlightened monopolist can occasionally prove a delusional paranoid.
Tim Wu
#41. paranoid, you said so in your notes. He knew the KGB and MVD were watching him in Minsk, and he's going to be afraid that the FBI and the
Stephen King
#42. I'm Jewish ... We're a very nervous group. Paranoid. Anxiety-ridden. Maybe that Hitler thing made us a little jumpy. Nothing like a Holocaust to make you mind your Ps and Qs for a couple hundred years I always say.
Andy Kindler
#43. The NRA made an ad saying that Obama is elitist because his kids have armed guards. Yeah, that crazy Obama thinking his kids need special protection. I love the NRA accusing anyone of being paranoid. It's like a septic tank saying, 'You need a mint.'
Bill Maher
#44. Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know and can't articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay.
Dan Savage
#46. I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.
Johnny Depp
#47. If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That's been my trademark for years.
Art Modell
#48. Become a type, no one saw you. Paranoid thought: What better disguise? But disguise for what?
Jeff VanderMeer
#49. Fortunately I never came to enjoy the effect of heroin for its own sake, but floating away on a silk pillow was infinitely nicer than grinding my teeth in a drunken, paranoid stupor at the end of a coke binge.
Duff McKagan
#50. With a camera, a microphone, and sufficient cash, you, too, can craft your own version of the world and emblazon it with a premium of fear over facts. (Be warned though: Paranoid schizophrenia makes for compelling film, but it's no way of life.)
David T. Hardy
#52. In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I'm stealing, every man thinks I'm a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I'm a lesbian or arrogant, and every child and animal sees the real me and it is evil.
Miranda July
#53. My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
Martha Beck
#54. Paranoid isn't a bad thing to be when the whole world is out to get you! 03-24-2011
Jan Thomas
#55. He did not think he was capable of falling in love who was insane, or paranoid, or confused. So where did that leave him?
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#56. I think aging and maturing is really interesting, and it's a shame that Americans are so panicky and paranoid about it.
Justine Bateman
#57. I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny.
I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.
Woody Allen
#58. Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid.
Jodi Picoult
#60. I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.
Umberto Eco
#61. Who do you hang out with? Natalia asks, looking over my shoulder. She's always done that. Wherever you are, whoever you are, she'll always look over your shoulder to see if there's someone more exciting to speak to. It used to make me feel paranoid.
Melina Marchetta
#62. People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie; it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability.
William Goldman
#63. She was doing that thing some people do when they act nice and chipper and interested, while just below the surface they're thinking really mean thoughts, and you can never call them on it because they'd just accuse you of being paranoid.
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#64. Most never received messages from solid-state entities, evil or otherwise (although talking to the furniture, overhead light bulbs, lava lamps, and computer screens is commonly reported, these "entities" do not usually answer back) and never experienced paranoid episodes lasting for more ...
Karl Jansen
#65. Humans are evolutionarily designed to be paranoid, and they believe in God because they are paranoid,
Satoshi Kanazawa
#66. I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
Gore Vidal
#68. Let me say this: I'm paranoid of the government. They've lost my trust. They've lied to me so many times that I don't know what to believe from them anymore.
Jesse Ventura
#69. Because I'm always so paranoid about doing corny things, or cheesy things in music, that often I probably don't make as good music as I could if I wasn't stifling it so much.
Jay Watson
#70. Relax, oh paranoid one. I doubt there'll be Talon agents hiding in the potted plants.
Julie Kagawa
#71. Suddenly I've had enough of all this. I've had enough of being made to feel insecure and paranoid and wondering what's going on
Sophie Kinsella
#72. If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Margaret Atwood
#73. Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.
Molly Ivins
#74. Dali elbowed Jim in the ribs. "What he meant to say was he is sorry that duties of his office and his own paranoid nature caused him to overreact." Jim looked like someone had hit him on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper. "Yes." "And
Ilona Andrews
#75. [ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon.
Gore Vidal
#76. The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.
Kenneth Oppel
#78. I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant, and I ignore the paranoid. If the shoe fits anyone, wear it.
Rick Pitino
#79. I don't sleep well. I'm a very nervous - by my nature - anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
#80. Just because I am paranoid does not mean that someone is not out to get me
Don Darkes
#81. I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.
Brian Wilson
#82. Some people think I'm paranoid, but I like to say I'm realistically prepared for when the shit hits the fan
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#83. I wanna smoke pot, but I can't, cause I'm too paranoid.
Drew Barrymore
#84. I had braces; I was lucky, 'cause I had some snaggle teeth. I always try and keep my retainer on me 'cause I'm paranoid about my teeth. It was run over by a car, so half of it's missing, but it still works.
Kreayshawn
#85. I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.
Amelie Nothomb
#86. If you notice someone talking to a person you can't see, she may be a paranoid schizophrenic. But she may also just be psychic. The fact that you can't see the other half of the conversation doesn't mean it's not truly happening. That
Jodi Picoult
#87. That's really paranoid," I say admiringly. "I'm going with that.
Holly Black
#88. My goal with Gravity Falls is to make people as paranoid and insane as I was as a child, and I'm delighted to see it's working!
Alex Hirsch
#89. You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.
You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation
at high speed with total clarity.
Banksy
#90. Now, I'm no doctor, but I am on TV. And in my professional opinion, George Bush is a paranoid schizophrenic.
Bill Maher
#91. I am a kind of paranoid in reverse.
I suspect people of having good intentions.
Jose N. Harris
#92. I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. And so, the transparency radical became a secret-keeper instead of a secret-leaker. And that, I think, is a big problem.
Alex Gibney
#93. I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'
Serena Williams
#94. Christ, he was paranoid about criticism. I used to say: why doesn't he worry about the team and forget what people are saying? He got Phil Thompson, who was a kid coming through when I was a Liverpool player, to have a go at me. So now I don't talk to him.
Ian St. John
#95. High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.
Thomas Kinkade
#96. I got a new dog. He's a paranoid retriever. He brings back everything because he's not sure what I threw him.
Steven Wright
#97. Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.
Thomas Pynchon
#98. If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.
Richard Hofstadter
#99. Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.
Dirk Kempthorne
#100. Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.
Ellie Goulding
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