It's the irrational things that interest me.

- Harrison Birtwistle

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know.

- Leo Ornstein

I actually have a very real, irrational fear of zombies.

- Jessica De Gouw

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

- Judith Viorst

It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself if you export those costs on to society as a whole.

- John Holdren

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

- Jeanette Winterson

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

- Josh McDowell

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.

- Jacques Lacan

I'm irrational about all things creative, and I'm always late!

- Iggy Azalea

Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.

- Hedi Slimane

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

- Albert Ellis

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

- Gunter Grass

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

- George Santayana

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

- Emile M. Cioran

I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.

- Damon Albarn

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

- Dan Ariely

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

- Cyril Connolly

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

- Barry Commoner

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

- Bill Cosby

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

- A. N. Wilson