Fanatic Quotes

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill

Change, Mind, Won

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley

Doubt, Secret, Defined

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Alan Watts

Faith, Religion, Nature

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
William Butler Yeats

Great, Mother, Heart

Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.
Bryant H. McGill

Lazy, Often, Action

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
Emile M. Cioran

Idea, Himself, Either

I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time.
Francesca Annis

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.
Hugh Laurie

Cannot, Coffee, Once

A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.
Dean Koontz

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.
Gloria Swanson

A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not.
Franklin P. Jones

Whether, Guns, Sticks

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
Finley Peter Dunne

Lord, Knew, Facts

I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.
Murray Walker

Morning, Smile, Car

Sunscreen is my number 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 tip. I'm a fanatic, partially because I live in L.A. and have fair skin and freckles, and partially because of my kids. My mom always made me wear sunscreen and I'm trying to be that mom for them.
Alison Sweeney

Mom, Live, Trying

I was never really a comic-book fanatic.
J. J. Abrams

I am a sports fanatic and being able to perform at halftime for the fans of the Steelers and the Jets is such a thrill for me.
Joe Nichols

Sports, Able, Fans

My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!
Etta James

Mother, Busy, Play

I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.
Jonah Hill

Dad, Basketball, Baseball

I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life.
Jonah Hill

Life, Once, Actor

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Time, Him, Down

Overall, I think I'm in pretty good shape, but I'm not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic.
Cobi Jones

Good, Fitness, Someone

I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.
Esther Dyson

Real, Two, Free

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Cool, Heart, Downright

My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible.
Josh Duhamel

Age, Good, Teacher

Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.
Armistead Maupin

Age, Fact, Maybe

I am a cookbook fanatic.
Samantha Bee

I'm a Star Wars fanatic.
Matthew Vaughn

I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.
Lisa See

Love, Far, Research

They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do.
Guillermo del Toro

Experience, Getting, Faithful

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