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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic. -- Kate Dickie
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. -- Allen Ginsberg
I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day. -- Bam Margera
I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical. -- Michael Stipe
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. -- Thomas Mann
Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people. -- River Phoenix
Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos. -- William Irwin Thompson
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable. -- Alan Greenspan
Hysterical? Neuractic? I am all that ain't more than juggernaut! -- Fidel Castro
Hysterical in The Mask; funny yet moving in The Truman Show. -- Jim Carrey
Hysterical fundamentalism is not the way into the future; it is the last gasp of the past. -- John Shelby Spong
Two bones fell down my chimney and into the bedroom this morning. Hysterical thing to happen to a thriller writer. Murderous ravens perhaps? -- Tobsha Learner
Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge. -- Richard M. Weaver
Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge. -- Richard M. Weaver
... hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history ... -- Spiro T. Agnew
Relieve stress through hysterical screaming. -- Tim Dorsey
I think I'm hysterical. I watch myself on tape and just roar - isn't that weird? -- Roseanne Barr
Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person. -- Ezra Koenig
My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's hysterical, she's beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I'm in love with her. -- Ike Barinholtz
'Red Dawn' was very resonant with a lot of people - they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical. -- Lea Thompson
I recognize a lot of the things I'm going through. Like, I lose my temper a lot and I become unhinged and kind of hysterical. -- Joan Didion
No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace. -- Agnetha Faltskog
Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over. -- Elizabeth Kostova
When Princess Diana died, I couldn't understand why people were mourning her death in such an enormous, hysterical way when they didn't actually know her for real. -- Alison Jackson
My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43. -- Ian Fleming
There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress. -- Tom Berenger
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history. -- Spiro T. Agnew
There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress -- Tom Berenger
Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out. -- Zakk Wylde
For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical passion, had been merely the bourgeois virtues of law and order. -- Adolf Hitler
My most memorable recognition story was in Venice, Italy. My fiance and I were renting a car, and I was recognized by the person standing behind me by my voice. I thought that was hysterical! -- Erica Cerra
The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again. -- Ruth Buzzi
I love comedy, but it has to be hysterical and really amusing; I'm not really a big fan of romantic comedies, in fact I can't stand them. I'm really more of a fan of 'Team America' and 'Dodgeball.' -- Rachel Hurd-Wood
Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets about an imminent catastrophe. The more public support his stimulus bill loses, the more Obama embraces fear-mongering. -- Fred Barnes
But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me. -- Emma Thompson
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night. -- Allen Ginsberg
Justin Halpern tosses lightning bolts of laughter out of his pocket like he is shooting dice in a back alley. In one sweep of a paragraph, he ranges from hysterical to disgusting to touching--and does it all seamlessly. Sh*t My Dad Says is a really, really funny book. -- Laurie Notaro
There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us. -- Michael Haneke
There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know. -- Marguerite Young
Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch. -- Manny Farber
Classical scores go up and down; they're kind of hysterical in a way. And movie scores are much more - they just drive and move forward, and they build and can't go up and down at that same speed. It's a big job to turn that into something that pushes the movie along. -- Darren Aronofsky
Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad. -- Sally Hawkins
Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll-back of the industrial age. -- Richard Lindzen
I don't understand racism. We are all the same and I have the perfect hypothesis to prove it. I play to all those countries and they cry in all the same places in my show. They laugh in the same places. They become hysterical in the same places. They faint in the same places and that's the perfect hypothesis. There is a commonality that we are all the same. -- Michael Jackson
Immigration enthusiasts are so hysterical. -- Peter Brimelow
My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ. -- Vladimir Nabokov
A hysterical human? Who hadn't seen that before? -- Jeaniene Frost
Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness. -- Sigmund Freud
They are becoming hysterical. This is the result of frustration. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
It was as hysterical as a woman having a hot flash. -- Stephen King
It's only people who are hysterical who can play hysterical parts. -- Sybil Thorndike
Chris Rock is a good friend of mine, and he is hysterical. -- Kid Rock
The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little. -- Mason Cooley
Waking up each morning to a hysterical alarm clock on the bedside table. -- Paulo Coelho
Love is very funny business. And sex - well, let's face it, sex is hysterical. -- Nora Roberts
The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it. -- Bill Nighy
It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair. -- Diana Wynne Jones
Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep. -- Samuel R. Delany
I became hysterical and frightened and begged for sedation. And that was just the first prenatal visit. -- Erma Bombeck
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There's nothing on my mind that couldn't be expressed by a long insane outburst of hysterical rage. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical. -- Thomas Jefferson
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood. -- Karl Kraus
Your date appears to be hysterical," Rene told me. "You think I should slap some man into him? -- Ilona Andrews
When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical. -- Alia Shawkat
Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter. -- John Sterling
If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing. -- Harry S. Truman
I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay -- William Butler Yeats
Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible. -- Thomas Sowell
Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation. -- Eric Hoffer
I am soooo excited, I am over-excited. I'm hysterical, I may have to slap my own face in a minute at this rate. -- Louise Rennison
Red Dawn' was very resonant with a lot of people - they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical. -- Lea Thompson
If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody. -- Mercedes Lackey
You should look up some of the reviews. The New York Times review is so over-the-top funny. It's hysterical. You should dig it out. -- Judd Apatow
The great thing about Eminem is, he's just hysterical. You forget, people like Eminem because he is riotously funny. And he's a great actor. -- Judd Apatow
Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval. -- Alain de Botton
An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Along the western slopes of the Oregon Coastal Range . . . come look: the hysterical crashing of tributaries as they merge into the Wakonda Auga River . . . -- Ken Kesey
Baby, after considerable thought I've reached the conclusion that the only conceivable legitimate answer to the Universe as constituted is a peal of hysterical laughter. -- Keith Laumer
Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor. -- James Thurber
In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror. -- Nick Cave
I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary. -- Pankaj Mishra
I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity. -- Rex Stout
I love the way the American trade magazines never give anybody a bad review because they're afraid the advertising will be taken out. It's so hysterical. -- Elton John
My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43 -- Ian Fleming
Any man that has had a mother, has a sister, wants to be a father will find this [movie Bad Moms] incredibly eye opening and hysterical and funny. -- Mila Kunis
As the NFF Historian, I'll have a new platform to indulge my passion for the most emotional, colorful and hysterical game ever developed by mankind and Walter Camp. -- Dan Jenkins
I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget. -- Zachary Levi
What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed nerve endings and you can't hear your fellow anglers' hysterical laughter. -- Jessica Maxwell
A hysterical young woman with flowing brown hair is also called from 4, but she's quickly replaced by a volunteer, an eighty-year-old woman who needs a cane to walk to the stage. -- Suzanne Collins
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm. -- Isaac Rosenfeld
I dab at the blood with some gauze from the kit, fighting back hysterical giggles. I blame it on the unbearable stress, not on the fact that I'm wiping Evan Walker's ass. -- Rick Yancey
I followed him at the time and thought he was hysterical. He was the first serial killer, a new kettle of fish, because we didn't have the detection techniques in those days. -- Matthew Bright
In later life, we don't easily talk of fears, but instead we discuss our 'concerns.' Fear seems too primal and hysterical, but concern is polite and intellectual and nicely under control. -- Michael Leunig
Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability . . . For the ear he is an unutterable bore, not nearly so talented as Frank Sinatra back in the latter's rather hysterical days at the Paramount Theater. -- Jack Gould
I should probably be afraid. But instead a hysterical laugh bubbles inside me, because I just remembered something: Maybe I can't hold a gun. But I have a knife in my back pocket. -- Veronica Roth
I don't think there is any religious revival. I think what we are hearing, the furor, is merely the hysterical response of the churches the handwriting on the wall that they are seeing. -- Daniel Dennett
Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition. -- Ayelet Waldman
In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal. -- June Jordan
The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe the director is the one that sets the mood and if you have this hysterical director it's a domino effect. I would work for him forever, for nothing. Don't tell my agent that. -- Elizabeth Pena
I write music, itâ??s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesnâ??t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music. -- Dmitri Shostakovich
To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being stupid, to be interested without being compulsive, to be happy without being hysterical... smoke grass. -- Ken Kesey
It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, 'What in hell? Am I here? What's going on? I'm going to wake up in a minute. I'm in a dream.' -- Jacqueline McKenzie
People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I'm really against these people who try to show that they're great patriots, because they're not thinking, they're just being hysterical. -- Julia Child

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