Mad Quotes - Page 13

• The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.

  Pierre Duhem

  Ambition, Despair, Dogmatism

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• Is there an idea more radical in the history of the human race than turning your children over to total strangers whom you know nothing about, and having those strangers work on your child's mind, out of your sight, for a period of twelve years? Could there be a more radical idea than that? Back in Colonial days in America, if you proposed that kind of idea, they'd burn you at the stake, you mad person! It's a mad idea!

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Years, Ideas

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• How could you get mad at someone who neither needed to attack nor was at all worried about being able to defend? It was like getting mad at Switzerland.

  Karl Marlantes

  Mad At Someone, Switzerland, Able

  Karl Marlantes (2010). “Matterhorn”, p.39, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Ladies, you have to be strong and independent, and remember, don't get mad, get everything.

  Ivana Trump

  Strong, Independent, Remember

  "The First Wives Club", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.

  Peter Mayle

  Unstoppable, Steam, Housewife

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• Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is: what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problems of the modern novel is: what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hero, Book, Mean

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• Mad About You fit my sensibility the most of any show that I worked on, and as a result, it was really fun. It felt like a very natural fit.

  Maria Semple

  Fun, Fit, Natural

  "'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' author Maria Semple talks about her new book". Interview with Molly Driscoll, www.csmonitor.com. October 3, 2012.

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• If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, Inward, Ifs

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.17, Anchor

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• The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a body - you can't help but be moved.

  Charles Jencks

  Cells, Cities, Body

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• The Secret Service has announced it is doubling its protection for John Kerry. You can understand why - with two positions on every issue, he has twice as many people mad at him.

  Jay Leno

  Two, Issues, People

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• Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable that it should, by rights, enable most of us to understand the other forms of lunacy with the sympathy of fellow-sufferers. But, paradoxically, mad and suffering as one is, and the heat of the flame, few of us are glad as we feel that passion slip away No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.

  Julian Fellowes

  Passion, Being In Love, Reality

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• Listen to what people say when they are mad, that's when the truth comes out.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  People, Truth Comes Out

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• With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.

  Cara Buono

  Men, People, Grew Up

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Black, Coffins

  Charles Dickens (2003). “Oliver Twist”, p.53, Collector's Library

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• I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.

  Deborah Moggach

  Garden, Three, Hens

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• You can be full of kindness and love, but you cannot sleep next to a mad dog.

  Ashin Wirathu

  Dog, Kindness, Sleep

  "Buddhists, Muslims Locked in Death Spiral?" by Wahab Raofi, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2017.

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• For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Real, Book

  Ray Bradbury (1990). “Fahrenheit 451: Curriculum Unit”

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• I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.

  Ina May Gaskin

  People, Brave, Might

  "The beatnik turned natural birth expert". Interview with Viv Groskop, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2009.

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• What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, People, Politics

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.643, Wordsworth Editions

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• You may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing. I mean, if Pearl Harbor came along, you could have said the planning was wrong by the military ahead of time or maybe the battleships shouldn't have all been in the harbor and all that kind of thing.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Military, Mean, Guy

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I definitely think men can be leaders. I see an analogy in the case of what helped me think about racism, which was to find parallels with sexism. In other words, I don't think I was such a great ally until I got mad on my own behalf.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Thinking, Racism

  Interview with Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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• There's the whole Mad Hatter's dilemma, it was the amount of mercury that they used in the glue to make the hats. Everything was damaging. So, in terms of the Mad Hatter, looking at it from that perspective of this guy who literally is damaged goods, physically damaged, emotionally a little obtuse, and taking that and deciding that he should be - as opposed to just this hyper, nutty guy - he should explore all sides of the personality at an extreme level.

  Johnny Depp

  Perspective, Personality, Guy

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• Fighting is spiritual. It appears to be physical from the layman's eyes. In my fights, I seemed to be angry and mad - all that stuff you saw me doing, the yelling and screaming and being mean in the ring - but I'm cool as a cucumber. I can hear everybody talking around me outside of the ring. I can see everybody. I know what is going on.

  Mike Tyson

  Spiritual, Mean, Eye

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• Fighting is all about calmness and relaxation. My appearance was all an illusion. My appearance is of a mad man, but I'm really calm and collected. Even though I'm fighting, I'm calm and relaxed as possible, despite my displays, because once you get excited, you can't fight at the highest level of your ability.

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Men, Relaxation

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• I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind,
  I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had,
  But O! my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind;
  I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Blood, Wind

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

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