#lunatic

By Gad,' exclaimed Welsh, 'I’d manage a nunnery for £500!' 'I daresay you would, but a suicidal, and possibly homicidal, lunatic isn’t a nunnery.' Welsh looked at his friend with diminished respect. ↗

— J. Storer Clouston

#humor #lunatic #nunnery #respect

I just realized my lips are inside out. They should be turned inwards, because I spend most of my time talking to myself.   ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#communication #inside-out #introvert #lips #lunatic

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

— Annie Dillard

#completely #crowd #family #father #fringe

If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone. ↗

— Roberto Bolano

#arrested #asylum #away #come #everyone

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#because #came #fans #hit #i

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics. ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

#crowd #genius #good #good sense #great

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#anything #asylum #casual #does #lunatic

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#asylum #complexion #due #jerusalem #lunatic

I'm just some lunatic macaroni mushroom, is that it? ↗

— Joe Pesci

#just #lunatic #macaroni #mushroom #some

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe. ↗