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Kishibe: Know the kinda hunters a devil fears most? The ones with a few screws loose and no screwdriver. Sahara's sanity was his demise. Head was on too straight. Same goes for Kinouichi... Subaru... and Sasaki. They were all reasonable enough to be afraid when devils struck. Every devil they faced was stronger because of it. You've worked with Aki long enough to form an opinion on 'im, yeah? Head on straight?
Himeno: Well, he has it out for you-know-what. No sane person is after the Gun.
Kishibe: Could've sworn you joined Public Safety so you'd have a shot at killing that thing, too. You sayin' you got some screws loose up there?
Himeno: No, sir, I'm not.
Kishibe: Exactly. Most hunters dream of finding the Gun Devil and personally dismantling it, and you're no exception. They're earnest, honest, straightforward. Which means devils know just how to fuck with 'em. Hunters who're off their rockers leave 'em guessing, though, and they aren't fans of that. Like us, devils have a fear of anything they don't understand.
Himeno: Well, he has it out for you-know-what. No sane person is after the Gun.
Kishibe: Could've sworn you joined Public Safety so you'd have a shot at killing that thing, too. You sayin' you got some screws loose up there?
Himeno: No, sir, I'm not.
Kishibe: Exactly. Most hunters dream of finding the Gun Devil and personally dismantling it, and you're no exception. They're earnest, honest, straightforward. Which means devils know just how to fuck with 'em. Hunters who're off their rockers leave 'em guessing, though, and they aren't fans of that. Like us, devils have a fear of anything they don't understand.
— Chainsaw Man, Episode 7
"There's this guy we know got himself some power by doing something crazy — we're just waiting to see what he does next."
— Dayakka (on Kamina), Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
NYPD Commissioner: What the hell are you doing here?!
Inspector Zenigata: You're securities no good sir: no one's watching the Air Vents, I used the Sewers' to get inside.
Inspector Zenigata: You're securities no good sir: no one's watching the Air Vents, I used the Sewers' to get inside.
Film — Animated
"...Sometimes, the impossible can become possible — if you're awesome."
— Rhino the Hamster, Bolt
Film — Live-action
Will Turner: This is either madness... or brilliance.
Captain Jack Sparrow: It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide.
Captain Jack Sparrow: It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide.
Lord Cutler Beckett: You're mad!
Captain Jack Sparrow: Thank goodness for that, because if I wasn't, this would probably never work!
Captain Jack Sparrow: Thank goodness for that, because if I wasn't, this would probably never work!
Literature
"All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards their goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders — all maniacs. What else but a blind singlenee of purpose could have given focus to their genius, would have kept them in the groove of purpose. Mania ... is as priceless as genius."
"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."
— Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
Newspapers
A German student "mooned" a group of Hell's Angels and hurled a puppy at them before escaping on a stolen bulldozer, police have said.
Video Games
Wrex: Stealing an Alliance ship? Risky stuff. But I'm right behind you, Shepard. It's the least I can do.
Shepard: Everyone else thinks I'm crazy.
Wrex: Sometimes crazy's the best way to go.
Shepard: Everyone else thinks I'm crazy.
Wrex: Sometimes crazy's the best way to go.
"It's not feng shui. It's not old men eating fortune cookies and shitting diarrhoea wisdom. It's not white folk miming spiritual depth in the New Age book isle. It's ripping your face off, leaping through a plate glass window because it turns the opposition's gills green! It's knowing exactly how many teeth, fingers, and toes you have to lose to get exactly what you want... and then anteing up! It's elemental audacity!"
— Daimon Kiyota on Chaos, The Secret World
Webcomics
"Ninjas can't catch you if you're on fire."
— Dan McNinja, The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
"I guess I'd hoped that by shifting the technology to escalators, the awesomeness might somehow - you know... ...break science."
— T-Rex, Dinosaur Comics
This is another example of what Warhol meant, when he said that the Artists job is bypassing the conscious, rational mind in order to elicit a pure, raw, emotional roaches.
They’re roaches.
And that’s a really great way to beat an opponent nonlethally. You don’t have to overpower them. Just convince them reality has gone on Holiday, and they will almost always crumble.
Like the the cookie. The horrible, horrible cookie.
— Bharda, commenting on the villain losing his nerve (and drug resistance) due to witnessing a shapeshifter intentionally veer into Uncanny Valley in Grrl Power
Capt. Tagon: Lieutenant Pibald! Front-and-center!
Pibald: Sir! Yes Sir!
Tagon: Give me your favorite scenario for taking this base intact.
Pi: "Favorite" or "Most likely"? See, I'm a little crazy, and my favorite scenario is really expensive.
Tagon: The Doctor briefs me weekly regarding exactly how crazy you are. I want your favorite.
Pibald: Sir! Yes Sir!
Tagon: Give me your favorite scenario for taking this base intact.
Pi: "Favorite" or "Most likely"? See, I'm a little crazy, and my favorite scenario is really expensive.
Tagon: The Doctor briefs me weekly regarding exactly how crazy you are. I want your favorite.
The moment their arms spun freely in our air, they were doomed — for Man has earned his right to hold this planet against all comers, by virtue of occasionally producing someone totally batshit insane.
Web Original
My theory is that, in order to keep itself balanced, the physical plane of nature provides for evolution with natural selection, and in the same way, the spiritual plane of pure thought-energy provides for evolution by a similar slow gradual process in the transformation of consciousness. What neither of these planes can deal with are surges or leaps that upset the delicate precise balance needed for change to be properly accepted. Bill Hicks upset that balance in the spiritual plane of thought-energy. The spiritual plane requires gradual transformation. Remember those 'Travellers' in Dune? Hicks' body, had we had the technology to sustain his life even with pancreatic cancer, would've eventually transformed into a big-worm blob with female genitalia for a nose and mouth. Or remember the uni-cellular globule that William Hurt was about to turn into in Altered States? That would've been Hicks.
— Cody Wayne
on Bill Hicks, Interesting Motherfuckers
on Bill Hicks, Interesting MotherfuckersIn all seriousness, is there a more interesting comic creator in history than that dude? I mean, joking aside, for a quick sideline, the dude drew Captain America punching Hitler in the face, felt unfulfilled doing it artistically, drew all his comics for his war service in advance, and then went off to go kill a bunch of Nazis. I'm sure this is no new opinion, but Jack Kirby is totally awesome.
— Chris Sims on Smallville ("Icarus")
Smallville ("Icarus")"Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States was a hard partying, hard fighting, hard crazy, ugly, ugly son of a bitch who took the highest office in the land because he felt like it. What were you gonna do? Stop him? He'd like to see you try..."
"Takeshi Kitano, a.k.a. 'Beat Takeshi'. Japanese film director, comedian, singer, actor, screenwriter, poet, painter — okay, what WASN'T this guy? — and one-time video game designer. Yeah, y'hear that? One time. 'Cause one time is all he needed... The next steps are entirely made of logic: 1) quit job, 2) take money out of the office plant, 3) learn to hang-glide, 4) all the while managing to dodge Yakuza toughs that are trying to beat the shit out of you as you moon-jump past."
General: Report Corporal.
Corporal: He has killed the entire platoon and blew up the tank!
General: Impossible.
Corporal: He also did it while singing "I am the very model of a modern major general" and improvising a third movement to it!
Corporal: He has killed the entire platoon and blew up the tank!
General: Impossible.
Corporal: He also did it while singing "I am the very model of a modern major general" and improvising a third movement to it!
— (completely accurate) comment on Episode 45 of Freeman's Mind
of Freeman's Mind Western Animation
"Isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!"
— The Tick
"Sometimes crazy works."
— Optimus Primal, Beast Wars
Real Life
"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
— Oscar Levant
"Some may never live, but the crazy never die."
(watching footage) "Crazy. Th-th-that can't be an act. That CAN'T be an act. It's either the greatest work in the history of the business, or that man is a little nuts."
— Joey Styles on Terry Funk
