A Quote by Lisa Lopes

There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.

Lisa Lopes

Quote Topics

Always Being Between Crazy Genius Get Insanity Line Thin

Quote Author

Lisa Lopes
American - Musician
May 27, 1971 - April 25, 2002

There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth.

Leo Durocher

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

Dan Brown

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

Mackenzie Phillips

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

Nikki Giovanni

I had no idea there was such a thin line between sanity and insanity. I got pushed right to the edge by tragedy in my life, and I couldn't stand up; I couldn't recover.

Margaret Trudeau

My mum is in a mental hospital. There's a fine line between genius and insanity. Winston Churchill, Mozart, John Lennon. These people all had a touch of crazy that fuelled their brilliance. They were not locked up for it like my mum. Pft. Then again, Winston Churchill never tried to kill my dad.

Christopher Titus

The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.

Augusten Burroughs

The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.

D'Angelo

Most of the depressions are self-created. A few people are pathologically ill: they cannot help it. It just comes from within because of genetic and other factors. But almost everybody else can be driven to madness, because the line between sanity and insanity is quite thin.

Jaggi Vasudev

There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky.

Big Sean

All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.

William Friedkin

It is true that there is a fine line between entrepreneurship and insanity. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't. But you have to believe that everything is possible. If you believe it, those around you will believe it too.