If you ever feel like you're on the verge of a nervous breakdown, just follow these simple rules: First, calm down; second,… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I hated Hollywood. It’s a town without pity. Only success counts. I know of no other place in the world where so… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
If you read only the New York Times- I said, 'Oh my God!' The readers of the New York Times are heading… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I was in just the right generation to have taken feminism seriously by osmosis - also the generation when the breakdown of… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
During every book, I have a nervous breakdown. Usually it's about two thirds of the way through the book - I'm just… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
When we talk about total war, and we talk about war zones, and we talk about the breakdown of the cities, when… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear;… — Harry Gordon Selfridge Copy Share Image
On all levels, evolution occurs in response to a crisis situation, not infrequently a life-threatening one, when the old structures, inner or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I believe what I call common sense gun reform. Plus, a revolution in mental health, making sure that if people are having… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Then I felt that every inflection of my voice, every word in my mouth, was a lie, a play whose sole purpose… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes,… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
“You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
It's kind of hard get outside of your own frame of reference. To one degree or another, we all go through our… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
I had an emotional breakdown since I really had no idea what diabetes was all about. I wondered, 'why me?' Then I… — Nick Jonas Copy Share Image
Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Embedded in this outlook is an idea of the body as a machine, so that illness is seen as a breakdown of… — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
“If you think that your partner has been cheating, then take a look at their will. If a past lover is in… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house,… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
If we want to save our country, we must all realize that the breakdown of our culture is trapping millions of people… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department… — Lauren Hutton Copy Share Image
People talk about the way disembodied spirits roam the world with no place to park themselves, but all I can think is… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
A nervous breakdown waits around the corner for anyone who lets himself wallow in bitterness. Little by little, it takes over your… — Mariama Bâ Copy Share Image
'Portlandia' is the most fun show. When I get a breakdown of what the arc of the story is going to be,… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
“We're all vulnerable. Mix the wrong feelings together, the right kind of bad with the wrong kind of good, and you'll wind… — Caterpillar from Alice Copy Share Image
I had this producer who became a friend, named Lou [Stellato]. Maybe it was a budget thing, but he never wanted to… — Jancee Dunn Copy Share Image
There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised… — David Hewson Copy Share Image
“The demand being made of me was to treat the breakdown as if fear and frustration were not a part of it,… — Arthur W. Frank Copy Share Image
Those moments of solitude and exhibiting a mental breakdown, and how you do that physically and without it being too obvious, but… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
You left me stranded all alone, I use to smile till it was all just gone ' I still think of times… — Alicia Martinez Copy Share Image
There is nothing like the start of a season, before all the one-run losses, pitching breakdowns and missed opportunities. Before reality sets… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that… — Cherrie Moraga Copy Share Image
A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
I think I realize why celebrities go crazy, do something stupid or have a nervous breakdown. Fortunately I have great people around… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image