I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by…

Great performers require a measure of confidence that would strike many as absurd, unfounded, and downright irrational. They believe in themselves utterly, without question,…

— John Eliot

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted…

— Thomas Ligotti

The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night when souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness,noting the fatal flight of worlds…

— Anonymous

We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

— Tom Robbins

I used to do films for money earlier. I never knew what perception meant. I didn't give too much attention to scripts. It was…

— Emraan Hashmi

“It is at these troubled periods that frivolity, even license, are most easily understood, "because one enjoys with gusto what tomorrow may belong to…

— Raymond Radiguet

Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane…

— John Ruskin

Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes…

— Philip Larkin

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem…

— Robertson Davies

“She had debated, in the frivolity of the beginning, whether to build a hole or a tower; a hole, because she was fond of…

— Keri Hulme

Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their…

— Charles Spurgeon