We're all controlled neurotics.
Harry Reasoner
In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
Karl Abraham
Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.
Larry Flynt
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
Marcel Proust
Fear of death and idolatry of youth have prompted vain neurotics to spend ever-greater fortunes on cosmetic products and surgeries to stave off age just a little while longer.
Michael J. Knowles
A materialist age makes neurotics of those who measure their life in minutes. Teetotalling totalitarians know the cost of life, but not the value.
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
Rita Rudner
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
Sigmund Freud
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
Like neurotics obsessed with amputating their own healthy limbs, middle-class blacks concerned with 'keeping it real' are engaging in gratuitously self-destructive and violently masochistic behavior.
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
Vladimir Nabokov