Zaniness Quotes & Sayings

Rarely does this world look as if a beneficent Providence were running it. — J.I. Packer

The weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy. — Daniel D. Polsby

Why not? Why not? Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not? — David Foster Wallace

I'm not this unusual," she said. "It's just my hair."
She looked at Bobby and she looked at me, with an expression at once disdainful and imploring. She was forty, pregnant, and in love with two men at once. I think what she could not abide was the zaniness of her life. Like many of us, she had grown up expecting romance to bestow dignity and direction.
"Be brave," I told her. Bobby and I stood before her, confused and homeless and lacking a plan, beset by an aching but chaotic love that refused to focus in the conventional way. Traffic roared behind us. A truck honked its hydraulic horn, a monstrous, oceanic sound. Clare shook her head, not in denial but in exasperation. Because she could think of nothing else to do, she began walking again, more slowly, toward the row of trees. — Michael Cunningham

I was greatly influenced by 'The Goons' and 'Monty Python' reconstituting what comedy was - it could come from a funny word, not just a set up and a pay-off. I liked the zaniness; they were satirical, slightly saucy and very literary in their references. — Sanjeev Bhaskar

Until you can intelligently articulate the other side's position, you are not an adult. You are a liberal. — Ann Coulter

I think all of the best nonfiction that has ever been made comes from the result of someone who can't stop thinking about a certain topic - a very specific aspect of a certain topic in some cases. And second, they got really good at figuring out what they had to say about it. — Merlin Mann

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end. — Mignon McLaughlin

I'm one of these people that if I have a nice holiday - like I have had in Turkey repeatedly - I go back a lot. — Freema Agyeman