Steven Wright quote: “Imagine Oshkosh straitjackets for little insane children.”

Larry Niven book A World Out of Time

Source: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 2 Don Juan, Section 3 (p. 52)

“Adults must remember that they look like insane giants to children.”

Irving Fiske (1908–1990) American writer

Attributed without citation in Isabella Fiske McFarlin, et al., "Free The Kids! and Quarry Hill Community" http://search.proquest.com/openview/e76b1d1a966283049dcf60bcb9386c4d/1, Journal of Psychohistory, Vol. 21 No. 1 (Summer 1993), p. 21

“There is some irony in the fact that children imagine that parents can do what they want, and parents imagine that children do.”

Shulamith Firestone book The Dialectic of Sex

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The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

“Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”

Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor

“If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People

“There is some irony in the fact that children imagine that parents can do what they want, and parents imagine that children do. "When I grow up..." parallels "Oh to be a child again..."”

Shulamith Firestone book The Dialectic of Sex

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The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

“Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.”

Akira Kurosawa book Something Like an Autobiography

Akira Kurosawa 'Something Like an Autobiography (1981)
Something Like an Autobiography (1981)

“All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.”

Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011) English children's fantasy writer

“A little knowledge is said to be a dangerous thing, but it is not dangerous to the imagination. Knowledge is to the imagination what fuel is to flame. A little feeds it; a great deal extinguishes it.”

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet

Source: The Poet's Diary (1904), p. 158.

“Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.”

Alex Haley (1921–1992) African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist

Statement in Reader's Digest (1987), as quoted in Incredibly American : Releasing the Heart of Quality (1992) by Marilyn R. Zuckerman and Lewis J. Hatala, p. 13.

“Imagine Oshkosh straitjackets for little insane children.”

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