Raving Quotes
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Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.
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Sex is the refuge of the mindless. And the more mindless the woman, the more deeply embedded in the male "culture," in short, the nicer she is, the more sexual she is. The nicest women in our "society" are raving sex maniacs.
valerie solanas— p. 12 (SCUM MANIFESTO (1967))
When Sir Winton Turnbull [who represented a large rural seat] was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: "I am a Country member". I interjected "I remember". He could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides.
gough whitlam— From a speech during a debate on the question That Politicians Have Lost Their Sense Of Humour, Sydney Town Hall, 24 May 2000
When the film premiered at Cannes 2003, Lars von Trier was accused of not portraying Americans accurately, but how many movies do? Anything by David Spade come to mind? Von Trier could justifiably make a fantasy about America, even an anti-American fantasy, and produce a good film, but here he approaches the ideological subtlety of a raving prophet on a street corner.
roger ebert— Review of Dogville (9 April 2004)
(Howard) Dean is a raving nut bag...a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag...I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed.
christopher hitchens— Quoted in The New Yorker, October 2006. According to writer Ian Parker, this was Hitchens' response to a dinner-party guest who made a favourable comment about Howard Dean. Parker states that Hitchens appeared heavily drunk at the time.
Stop this raving at once! [Ripley: I'm telling you, it's here!] Aaron, get that foolish woman back to the infirmary!
— Who: Harold Andrews
— Note: To Ripley who hysterically tells her about the alien's killing Clemens; shortly afterward the alien, from a duct above him, jumps out and pulls him into the duct.
Bastard! [raving] Get away from me!
— Who: Captain Benjamin Matthaius
— Notes: The captain has lost his mind, raving ever louder about the Artefact, and growing more violent and paranoid untill he has to be physically restrained. White and Chic try to hold him down while Kyne sedates him. He breaks free and starts to throttle Kyne, who stabs him in the eye with a hypodermic, possibly in self-defense, but more likely by accident.
The tither was a ploughman's collie, A rhyming, ranting, raving billie.
Robert Burns— 1786 'The Twa Dogs'.
Deprived of meaningful work , men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad .
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, inKen Davis Fire Up Your Life: Living with Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Prove, Nothing to Lose, Zondervan, 1995, p.31
