#sanity

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries. ↗

— Patty Duke

#beings #between #centuries #human #human beings

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#acoustic guitar #alone #bordering #bravery #guitar

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep. ↗

— James Thurber

#average #banquet #begins #calls #end

Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays, though, artists make intentionally ugly art that’s only supposed to reflect society rather than inspire it. So I guess we’re all loony together now, loony rats in the shithouse of commercialism. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#artists #craziness #sanity #society #art

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#everyone #i #insanity #me #recommend

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier. ↗

— Alice Walker

#children #earlier #i #i believe #much

It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election. ↗

— Malcolm Wallop

#alien #allow #believes #election #established

It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene. ↗

— James Wolcott

#burning #came #embrace #first #fully

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. ↗

— Cary Grant

#insanity #practically #runs

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity. ↗

— Tom Harkin

#country #fiscal #gambling #get #money