I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.

If something is irrational that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

The more I work with the body keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

You're an actor are you? Well all that means is: you are irresponsible irrational romantic and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal material sensational - and probably sexual!

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

What lingers from the parent's individual past unresolved or incomplete often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that in a future existence we shall look upon what we think our present existence as a dream.

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous but to criticize their religion that is a right. That is a freedom.

I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times it's quick action and no fear and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

I love my early movies but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings dreams an acceptance of irrationality.

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries dating and religion.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

Every song has a composer every book has an author every car has a maker every painting has a painter and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.