The Alienist Quotes

#1. He discriminated against neither the avaricious nor the prodigal: both were committed to the asylum; this led people to say that the alienist's concept of madness included practically everybody.

Machado De Assis

#2. I blew a strand of black hair from my face. "A demon treating another with kindness is something I have yet to see."
"Careful," the demon whispered. "You may have already seen the rough shape and form it takes in this world, and yet you do not recognize it.

Heather Heffner

#3. Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.

Robert Benchley

#4. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Calvin Coolidge

#5. Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it?

Jeff Foxworthy

#6. In my downtime, for fun, I engage in philosophical internet debates. Yeah, I'm that guy.

Scott Clifton

#7. Then it occured to me that the elicate shades of feeling, of reaction, are the result of communication, and without such communication they tend to disappear. A man with nothing to say has no words.

John Steinbeck

#8. The path that is best for you is the path that keeps the best of you in play.

Bernie De Koven

#9. To him who looks on the world reductively, the world looks reductively back.

Robert B. Brandom

#10. People, no matter the economic class, find ways to feed their narcissism.

Lynne Tillman

#11. As a filmmaker, I love the medium. I have a great affection for it and I've been lucky enough to do all different kinds of films. The greatest part of the success I've had comes from horror. I love the idea of mixing humor and horror and to me, it's all a giggle.

George A. Romero

#12. [ ... ] we can't make a decision between being sad for a little while and being wretched for the rest of our lives. Or rather we've made the decision and have trouble finding the courage to carry it through.

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

#13. I am the same on camera as I am off. I can't imagine being any other way.

Olivia Munn

#14. There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable.

Will Rogers

#15. I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

Alice Walker