#psycho

When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#celebration #comes #intellectual #moment #psycho

I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#because #being #between #character #comedy

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all. ↗

— Allen Tate

#any #conditions #history #instance #less

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#change #creating #division #fear #manipulate

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#before #caught #detached #get #jim

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#applicable #case #exclusively #involve #languages

I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#ambiguous #feel #good #i #i feel

I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#attached #forget #head #highly #how

Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#bad #believe #childhoods #evil #i

What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats. ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

#psychology #rats #scales #tipped #working