Quotes About The Lunatic Fringe

#1. The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

Theodore Roosevelt

#2. Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.

Joel Salatin

#3. Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.

Christopher Hill

#4. Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.

Judith Rossner

#5. Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.

Annie Dillard

#6. Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.

Sam Harris

#7. I believe that in any initiative, you can't have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a company, you can not be a logical leader. You have to go to the lunatic fringe. There is no way that logic is what you need to change people.

Jack Welch

#8. The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.

Aldous Huxley

#9. The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

H.L. Mencken

#10. You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.

Jack Welch

#11. The way to find what the mainstream will do tomorrow is to associate with the lunatic fringe today.

Jean Louis

#12. You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#13. If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.

Kerry Thornley

#14. Every baby's the only in my observation of mothers.

Alexandra Ripley

#15. People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.

Leonard Baskin

#16. Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

Theodore Roosevelt

#17. man is not molded from clay . . . he is pounded like hot iron on an anvil.

Terry Mancour

#18. There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement.

Theodore Roosevelt

#19. There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#20. My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.

Suzanne Collins

#21. Two women can't share a house comfortably, no matter how fond they might be of each other. It's got to be one woman's kitchen.

Nora Roberts

#22. My job as an actor has inspired generations of children to become doctors. My job as a writer has opened up the minds of millions. My job as a director has produced masterpieces that will be taught in film school for ages.

Zach Braff

#23. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. If creation had been left up to me, I'm sure I wouldn't have had the imagination or courage to do more than shape a single, reasonably sized atom, smooth as a snowball, and let it go at that.

Annie Dillard

#24. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe ... No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.

Annie Dillard

#25. How on earth Traore gets into this team is beyond me. And he's a Champions League winner? Gimme a break. They've Riise sitting on the bench who's a different class to this fella.

Johnny Giles

#26. I don't take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion.

J.K. Rowling

#27. Sometimes you should be afraid of what hides in the dark,"

Perfect Alpha: Hibernation

Wade Belknap Jr

#28. The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.

Khalil Gibran

#29. It was terrifying, almost unbelievable, the casualness of the cruelty.

Lois Lowry

#30. Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

Henry David Thoreau

#31. Love is like a roller coaster. It can take you to the highest, most spectacular heights or drop you to bottom in seconds. However, even with the risks, love is undoubtedly worth it in the end.

Sheila Jackson Lee