Frenzy Quotes

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity."

The whole thing started on this Web site called Cyber Sleaze, which should probably tell you something. My agent called me and said, `There`s this stuff going around.` I got phone calls from my friends saying, `What are you going to do about this?` It was just a blatant lie put on the Internet, and then it was just like a feeding frenzy. And I`m sure it was validated by my recent roles.

It (rumors of his homosexuality) was just a blatant lie put on the Internet, and then it was just a feeding frenzy... And I`m sure it was validated by my recent roles. What startled me was how willingly people accepted it. Interview with The Advocate.

(On accepting her Golden Globe in 2007 without a written speech) "The Globes night was a frenzy: I hadn`t written anything. I looked down at the audience and Jack Nicholson was staring up at me and I couldn`t even remember what my bloody name was. So I have learnt my lesson!".

I`m in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I`m around we`ll take a look.

Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

For the last 20 years of my life, I`ve been wearing something unrecognizable. I`ve been acting for 20 years now and I`ve been under the radar. I was completely under the radar until Hellboy came along. And I did notable roles before, Billy Butcherson in Hocus Pocus which became like a Halloween classic over here on the Disney Channel, and I had smaller parts in lots of films like Batman Returns, Mystery Men, Adaptation, Three Kings, and they were even things with my own face in them. But I was basically actor of the day and I didn`t get much recognition, and guest-starring on TV shows that come and go and commercials that come and go. But Hellboy was the one that had real staying power, in terms of its notoriety and the size of the role I had. I guess I became a speck on the radar then, but now it`s Pan`s Labyrinth and Silver Surfer. Finishing Fantastic Four and Pan`s Labyrinth coming out with these Golden Globes and Oscar nominations has been a press frenzy for me. I`ve never been thrust in the public eye this much with me, Doug Jones, as name recognition which is happening now, which is new for me. It`s very exciting but still it`s nice to go to 7-11 and still be me. Nobody has to know, right?

Well, this film came together faster than anything else I think I`ve ever done. I literally got a phone call at something like 10 o`clock in the morning. I was in New York and I was asleep. My agent said, "I don`t know how to say this, but pack your bag. You may be leaving for Bulgaria today. I`m going to get the script over to you right now." So it was a very quick, strange thing. I got the script within the hour and read it. I really like doing science-fiction. I really like it, and it`s only in the past couple of years that I`ve done it. So I said, "OK, Bulgaria. Let`s go." That was the quickest decision I`ve ever made in my life. - On getting his part in Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy (2005) (TV) .

Thousands of Republicans turned to me chanting "Four more years.` I thought, `That`s strange, Republicans are usually good at math, but they`re off by a few dozen months. Bush only has two months left.` So I held up two fingers to correct their miscalculation. But that just drove them into more of a frenzy.

It took the frenzy out of the T&E reporting and reimbursement process.

The media frenzy of it is incredible. It`s a lot of fun. You just have to roll with it. The frenzy of the whole week is crazy, so I think I`ll be able to help keep everyone focused.

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

The bottom line is this was probably a dumb call. You pick up the phone, you say, `Let`s get a statement out and get this behind us.` You avoid the kind of feeding frenzy we`re seeing here today. I think the press smells a little blood in the water.

A lot of these cars that we`re talking about are really, really great cars, but I think there is a frenzy in the air.

That offense is based on timing. You have to throw that off, and you`ve got to get there real fast and get him out of his rhythm. You`ve got to frenzy Peyton Manning, and that`s how you beat him He`s a very composed quarterback, that`s why he`s the best at his position, the best at what he does. I have a feeling that if you get at him enough, it`ll start to shake him a little bit.

I`m a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.