Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside.
Susanna Kaysen
Related Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire fam... SUSANNA KAYSEN A designated patient 'carries' the group's dysfunction. A designated issue performs the ... MARTHA BECK The world is becoming an immense military base, and that base is becoming a mental hospital the size... EDUARDO GALEANO Actors are one family over the entire world. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Actors are one family over the entire world. ALFRE WOODARD Ask anyone and they'll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don't say their family is ... CRISS JAMI What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera sh... ADAM GREEN Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's... GARRET DILLAHUNT I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer,... ALEXANDER KLUGE We believe that when a person goes missing, it's not just the family in pain. It affects the entire ... BRAD DENNIS Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters. GEORGE BRETT Kaysen elaborates through parts of the book on her thoughts about how mental illness is treated. She... SUSANNA KAYSEN I'm seeing a guy now who has nothing to do with films. It's so much nicer with somebody who ... KERRY CONDON if one person believes they are your sun, remember there is an entire universe. WAYNE DOUGAN Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy abou... CARSON DALY Chemistry is one of these crazy things you can't teach or learn or you can't fake. You go in... JESSE TYLER FERGUSON Life is an audition. THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL This was an unbelievable tragedy for the entire family... his grief is immeasurable. There is no gre... DAVID ROTH Andrea Bronfman was a pillar of her family and the entire Jewish community. She was an activist as w... ISRAEL SINGER No matter how far he can go in his entire life.
No matter how much he can achieve in his entire life... KAZERONNIE MAK White is a trend unto itself. From very pure, stark white to ecru, you can look at white as an entir... GREGG ANDREWS The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver. JAY LENO Orlando is designated as our secondary market. DAN EDWARDS The show is a delight for the entire family. BILL WALLACE Your mind is an entire world, your heart is an entire cosmos, and your soul is an entire universe. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The difference between an atheist and a person of faith? One additional religion in the crazy column... QUENTIN R. BUFOGLE There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an ent... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE 5G will have an impact similar to the introduction of electricity or the car, affecting entire econo... STEVE MOLLENKOPF You can see the whole entire world in the eyes of a person who knows how to simply stand there and t... C. JOYBELL C. If you have some potatoes, green beans and cauliflower, you have a heck of a dish that can feed an e... JOSE ANDRES I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to fi... TED LANGE If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He'... J. J. WATT The fact I even get an opportunity to make one album is crazy. But if all goes to plan, I'll get... VANCE JOY 'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love ... MATT GROENING It's crazy. (Realtors) are busier now then they have been in their entire careers. HERB GOMEZ I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do... O. J. SIMPSON A major part of being prepared is having a plan. Local calls don't always work in the immediate ... MIKE CRAPO It is just a crazy life as a sportsman. My daughter, Sam, wants to go into tennis, and I tell her, &... ERNIE ELS Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. TRUMAN CAPOTE When Catherine told me about this (tragedy nearby), I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that famil... ELIZABETH GILBERT You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify an... BENMONT TENCH I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of cha... CLAY AIKEN I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what... VICKY MCCLURE Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In d... JIMMY REID If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesn't that show an incredible... KEVIN SPACEY Cats are designated friends. NORMAN CORWIN I want to thank Chris on behalf of our entire organization for his eight seasons in Kansas City. He ... CURT JOHNSON I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the f... RUPERT MURDOCH Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her. TAISSA FARMIGA We're born into the world as just one small piece to the puzzle that makesup an entire life. COLLEEN HOOVER We created Pure Flix to make uplifting and inspiring content on a consistent, ongoing basis, so audi... DAVID A. R. WHITE I'm sure everyone knows that my heart is and always will be with the players, the fans and the e... STEVE GARVEY When I was a kid, it wasn't very often that I could go to the movies and see an entire movie car... AIMEE GARCIA An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is o... TUCKER ELLIOT Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the ent... GIAMBATTISTA VICO My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are ... SAMANTHA BEE The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and hist... JOHN DRANE George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secr... CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room fo... DADA VASWANI As traditions of mourning wane, women's role as designated mourners has also vanished. In conseq... SUSAN STEWART Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. HESIOD A family in my sister's neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the youn... ELIZABETH GILBERT We plan to meet holistic needs of the entire family. LARRY GILL An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identi... LEROY HOOD I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out th... ABIGAIL BRESLIN Seeing, touching is believing! THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL SEO is DEAD in the eyes of the people who know LESS about it. J. ORACOY I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what... BRANDON SANDERSON The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foo... CRAIG BRUCE I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor. RANDY QUAID Music was always heavily involved with my spirit. My entire family is Jamaican. It's nothing but... SHAMEIK MOORE I'm not one of those actors who gets so taken by a role that I can't live my life. I'm t... BILLY PORTER Any area in Florida can be designated as blighted under Florida's current law. DANA BERLINER I am an English-speaking Canadian, but my entire family - Russian exiles and the Canadians they marr... MICHAEL IGNATIEFF Many times as an actress I feel crazy, yet the truth is that I would feel far more crazy if I were n... LEE REMICK I am a combination of my entire family. DIONNE WARWICK On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. ... BIL KEANE Shoes make an outfit. You can throw on a crazy shirt and crazy pants but you add those shoes - done. RUSSELL WESTBROOK Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. Whe... EMMANUELLE BEART The hurricanes are one thing, but this is the kind of situation that can wipe out an entire nursery.... TERRY ROBINSON It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy ... RICHARD DAWSON A sociopath is just a label and doesn't encompass the entire being of a person. DAN GILROY The only other home I can enter without an invitation, is my parents home. BEN OAK The entire family is overwhelmed by the loss of Rachel and Lillian and the events of last weekend. JOE FLAHERTY My Christmas wish would be to have an entire week off. To spend it with my family and just curl up a... DAVID HASSELHOFF Hate crimes impact not just individuals but entire communities. When a family is attacked because of... JAMES COMEY We have to scrutinize the entire abatement process to ensure the companies that are under considerat... VINCENT FRANK OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy! PATRICIA VELASQUEZ We just want to make our demands very clear and explicit to the administration. The [Designated Supp... BEN BREWER For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't ha... DAN COLEN I have so many photos of me where I'm laughing like a crazy person. I don't know what it is,... ZACH WOODLEE When men and women multi-task, they don't feel good. And their stress can impact the entire family. BARBARA SCHNEIDER If you empower a man, you empower one person. If you empower a woman, you empower her entire family.... DEBORAH LINDHOLM I'm always looking for wild and crazy people. They're so much fun. My family is so sane. DEE SMITH I like that there's no love as fierce as the love you feel for your family; that there's no ... KATE KLISE Conform, go crazy, or become an artist. NANCY SPRINGER People say to me, 'Are you still excited when you go on tour?' Should I be excited about lea... NEIL PEART The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designate... HAROLD ROSENBERG I have the most supportive parents and family in the entire world. TAYLOR SPREITLER As a family, we come into an area and my role is cushioning the landing, MARK OWEN
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And siller hae to spare,
Gin ye'll consent to be his bride,
... MISS SUSANNA BLAMIRE I have no wish for a second husband. l had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie dow... SUSANNA STRICKLAND MOODIE Jenny, she's aw weet, peer body,
Jenny's like to cry;
For she hes weet her petticoats
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