Conniption Quotes & Sayings

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy. — Jim Carrey

What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory. — Tom Rachman

There aren't weird things; there are only familiar and unfamiliar things! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Your peers are people in the business who are going to push you forward. So I think it's one of the reasons that Syracuse students come out truly ready for the industry because we've been rubbing elbows with people who are likeminded and just as 'pushy' or as ready to go as we are. — Mike Tirico

But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit. — George Orwell

You should get as close to the power when you're pitching something. I got my two biggest breaks with the man who owned CBS and the guy that owned Paramount, because I was dealing with the guy who would say yes or no. — Albert S. Ruddy

You're the only person I trust. That's not something to waste. — Jennifer Rush

I, too, like to read. Once a month, I go to the local branch. For myself, I pick a novel and, for Bruno, with his cataracts, a book on tape. At first Bruno was doubtful. "What am I supposed to do with this?" he said, looking at the box set of "Anna Karenina" as if I'd handed him an enema. And yet. A day or two later I was going about my business when a voice from above bellowed, ALL HAPPY FAMILIES RESEMBLE ONE ANOTHER, nearly giving me a conniption. After that, he listened to whatever I'd brought him at top volume and then returned it to me without comment. One afternoon, I came back from the library with Ulysses. For a month straight he listened. He had a habit of pressing the stop button and rewinding when he hadn't fully grasped something. INELUCTABLE MODALITY OF THE VISIBLE: AT LEAST THAT. Pause, rewind. INELUCTABLE MODALITY OF THE. Pause, rewind. INELUCTABLE MODALITY. Pause. INELUCT. — Nicole Krauss

As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make moments more intense. — Victoria Legrand

I've always heard about people having a conniption, but I've never seen one. — Bill Cosby

Kimberly Green had a major conniption. "Are you insane?" They — Harlan Coben

Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles. — William Shakespeare

Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that "self honesty" can do for you. (Do you really want to have to confess that doughnut? I thought not.) — Alton Brown