Irvin S. Cobb Quotes

If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed...

Irvin S. Cobb

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• Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Day

• Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Think
  • Washington

• I tell myself every offseason I'm not going to say anything crazy. I'm just going to have a peaceful season... Can't do it. I'm cut from a different cloth.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Different
  • Crazy
  • Myself

• Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Thought

• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Movie
  • Crazy
  • Like

• I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.

  

  Imelda May
  • Family
  • Love
  • Friends

• All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • Washington
  • Mecca

• Working hard is way more fun. If you had to goof off 40 hours a week, you couldn't do it. It would drive you crazy.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Fun
  • Crazy
  • Working Hard

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• It's just kinda what I did: played crazy old ladies.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Crazy
  • Old
  • Just

• We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read - I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people?

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • People
  • Up
  • Hand

• I've accepted that we've all got crap to deal with and problems that we're fighting not to be defined by. At the end of the day, we all want the same stuff: fulfillment, love, support, comfort, and a hot-air balloon with laser guns attached to it. The most important thing is that we appreciate the crazy ride we're on.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Important
  • Love
  • Support

• I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.

  

  Washed Out
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• People think New York is crazy and busy, but it's actually a great place for lazy people to live.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • People
  • Great
  • Live

• I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Action

• I just want to keep at it. I can't wait to see, after years of being around, the roles I can play when I'm a crazy old lady.

  

  Tanya Fischer
  • Want
  • Crazy
  • I Can

• This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Morning
  • Washington
  • Post

• You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Crazy

• I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Kind
  • Situation
  • Just

• See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• The stakeholder concept was originally defined as "those groups without whose support the organization would cease to exist." The list of stakeholders originally included shareowners, employees, customers, suppliers, lenders and society. Stemming from the work of Igor Ansoff and Robert Stewart (in the planning department at Lockheed) and, later Marion Doscher and Stewart at SRI, the original approach served an important information function in the SRI corporate planning.

  

  R. Edward Freeman
  • Concept
  • List
  • Stakeholder

• If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed...

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Crazy
  • Washington
  • Noticed