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'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.
— Jools Holland
Racism in impenetrable. Staying in America means always fighting. For our own sanity and safety, we must go.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that ... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions.
— Robin Wright
To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.
— Michael Shurtleff
Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.
— Albert Einstein
We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.
— Michael Howard
Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence.
— William Faulkner
I wish this were just a nightmare that we could wake up from.
— Madeleine Roux
If I wore any color other than black, tan, or gray, I looked like an asylum escapee.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.
— Chris Cleave
There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful
— Sarah Kane
Great. The part of the lovable dog will be played by Cody the Wolf. - Cody Forester, Werewolf Asylum
— Roxanne Smolen
The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.
— David Lloyd George
I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum
— George Bernard Shaw
It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.
— James Bryant Conant
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.
— Robert W. Welch Jr.
Hollywood-a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.
— Laurence Stallings
I'm called an asylum seeker, but that's not my name.
— Angela May George
I was a United States citizen who had been granted political asylum in Sweden. Yes,
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I was in a mental asylum? When the fuck did that happen?
— Darynda Jones
When it comes to correct English, there's no one in charge; the lunatics are running the asylum.
— Steven Pinker
Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.
— John Lydon
There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
— Carl Jung
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
— George Bernard Shaw
Even in his sleep he couldn't escape.
— Madeleine Roux
If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.
— Romola Garai
But Perdition was a much asylum as prison, and when you were standing in somebody else's delusions, it was both polite and politic to play along.
— Ann Aguirre
There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.
— Carl Jung
We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-shopping in the European Union.
— Mark Rutte
If someone tells you you're crazy enough times, eventually it becomes true. It's that old psychiatrist's joke: insanity's all in your head.
— Madeleine Roux
A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.
— H.L. Mencken
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.
— Herman Melville
Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.
— Erving Goffman
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The child psychologist's clinic: where imaginary friends go to die, where dreams go to burn, where creativity goes to drown.
— Rebecca McNutt
Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
— Franz Grillparzer
Addy, living one day without you would never be for the best. I want you every minute of every day. Forever. I love you.
— Lauren Hammond
'The Asylum Dance' was written after I'd moved back to Scotland and was a response to moving to my old home area of Fife.
— John Burnside
EARTH: THE INSANE ASYLUM OF THE UNIVERSE.
— Darynda Jones
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We did just leave an insane asylum," Hi agreed. "For all we know, Chance spend his nights dancing naked with sock puppets, plotting to invade Canada.
— Kathy Reichs
I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum
— George Bernard Shaw
I will turn directly to the Asylum Bill later.
— John Major
The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.
— Thomas Paine
Nothing matters in this goddamned lunatic asylum of a world but dough.
— William Lindsay Gresham
[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.
— Sadegh Hedayat
Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane ...
— Mark Twain
We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.
— Justine Larbalestier
Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host community.
— David Blunkett
When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.
— Charles Spurgeon
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
The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.
— Richard A. Rowland
I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
— A.E. Housman
The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.
— Mandell Creighton
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
— Havelock Ellis
To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows.
— John F. Carlson
I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
— Bobby Fischer
This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.
— George Bernard Shaw
I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.
— Robert De Niro
It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
— Mike Royko
Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!
— Michael Caine
One of DC's strengths is our archive of storylines ranging from 'Watchmen' to 'Arkham Asylum' to 'Sandman.'
— Jim Lee
There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
— Antonin Artaud
Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
— Sophie Swetchine
If you're committed, that just means you're in agreement your undertaking could be your ticket to the asylum.
— Todd Day
America is a lunatic asylum.
— Ezra Pound
America is an insane asylum run by the inmates.
— Lester Roloff
A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.
— Herman Melville
In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.
— Lin Yutang
Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.
— Marquis De Lafayette
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
— Thomas Paine
When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.
— George Bernard Shaw
People preferred to live in a huge asylum religiously following rules written by who knows who, rather than fighting for the right to be different.
— Paulo Coelho
The world hadn't come to an end, just an end as man knew it. But there had to be a balance for the chaos. There had to be asylum from the damned.
— Tera Shanley
Sometimes it seems that the world is a very, very, large, insane asylum. We need only not get caught in others' madness and stick to our own.
— Art Hochberg
When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.
— Mark Twain