Mad Quotes - Page 25

• Let us see as steadily and completely as possible the realities of our age: the wasted lives, the scattered and misused resources (human and material), the steel magic of the misdirected machinery, the mad clockwork tragedy of it all.

  Clarence John Laughlin

  Reality, Magic, Tragedy

  Keith F. Davis, Nancy Barrett, John H. Lawrence, Clarence John Laughlin (1990). “Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer”, Hallmark Card Inc

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• My argument against the set-up picture is that it leaves the matter of content to the imagination of the photographer, a faculty that, in my experience, is generally deficient compared to the mad swirling possibilities that our dear common world kicks up at us on a regular basis.

  Tod Papageorge

  Imagination, World, Matter

  Interview with Alec Soth, alecsothblog.wordpress.com. July 11, 2007.

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• What does it mean, to lose one's mind? Where does it go? If a man is out of his mind, where is he? What is insane when the world is mad by contrast?

  Laurie R. King

  Mean, Men, Mind

  Laurie R. King (2009). “Folly”, p.359, Bantam

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• We met the Jonas Brothers. Nick [Jonas] is so cute ... I don't think Reggie will get mad because [Nick] is, like, I really shouldn't say he's cute. It's a little inappropriate!

  Kim Kardashian

  Cute, Brother, Thinking

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• For the young Gaels of Ireland
  Are the lads that drive me mad,
  For half their words need footnotes
  And half their rhymes are bad.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Needs, Half, Young

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• I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.

  Dolly Parton

  Children, Book, Writing

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• What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble - all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure! So that we don't go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak. We can't stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

  Agnes de Mille

  Believe, Thinking, Color

  Agnes De Mille (1980). “America dances”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• If the peasants are in open rebellion, then they are outside the law of God. Therefore let all who are able slash, strike down, and kill (those who rebel) openly and secretly, remembering that there can be nothing more venomous, harmful, or devilish than a rebel. It is exactly like killing a mad dog.

  Martin Luther

  Dog, Law, Rebel

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• The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in Europe understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second was a German professor who went mad. I am the third and I have forgotten all about it

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Men, Europe, Three

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• I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day to prevent it, but I could not. The North was mad and blind; it would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came, and now it must go on unless you acknowledge our right to self government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Fighting, Night

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• A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Running, Dog, Example

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1948). “Zen in English literature and oriental classics”

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• Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how
  many of my old acquaintance are dead!

  William Shakespeare

  Nostalgia, Mortality, Acquaintance

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.423

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• When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow?
  If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad,
  Threatening the welkin with his big-swollen face?

  William Shakespeare

  Wind, Sea, Heaven

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate (1995). “Titus Andronicus: Third Series”, p.201, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Well, I'm against Bush. I'm definitely not pro-Bush. I think he's a maniac and a mad man, and I think he needs to go. As far as Kerry -- you know, I think that it really came down to a choice of the lesser of two evils, and unfortunately Bush won.

  Roger Miret

  Men, Thinking, Two

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• But its crazy - like ten percent a year increase of children taking fucking anti-depressants. Pre-schoolers are like, the most prescribed. That makes me so mad!

  Emily Haines

  Children, Crazy, Years

  "Metric’s Emily Haines Sings Political". Interview with Stewart Smith and William Wallace, tweedmag.com. July 24, 2004.

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• Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that.

  Elliott Smith

  Nice, People, Would Be

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• Understanding is the key to everything. To rage, fear, love. If you understand a situation, it's going to make you mad. Or it's going to make you feel fearful. If any of us even had a clue as to what Bush and those people were up to, we'd be running stark crazy mad out of fear.

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Running, Crazy, Keys

  Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.

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• I think people get mad because I make more direct records.

  Kool Keith

  Thinking, People, Records

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• I'm not mad. I'm a writer.

  Peter Milligan

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• I ain't never called nobody no redskin. I've never been mad, like, 'Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.'

  Kevin Hart

  Restaurants, Redskins

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• There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, 'Will you all just shut up!' And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, 'What are you doing?!' I was like, 'You better get up here! I don't play the fighting games.'

  Kevin Hart

  Girl, Fighting, Talking

  "Kevin Hart Talks RIDE ALONG, Mutual Respect with Ice Cube, the Funniest Scene They Shot, and Keeping the Movie Grounded". Press Conference, collider.com. January 13, 2014.

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• I never argue with the tape. To be angry at the market because it unexpectedly or even illogically goes against you is like getting mad at your lungs because you have pneumonia.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Pneumonia, Tape, Arguing

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• When you get your powers, you learn a lot about yourself. My professors called me mad. It was time for me to stop punishing myself, and start punishing everybody else.

  Austin Grossman

  Professors, About Yourself

  Austin Grossman (2007). “Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel”, p.66, Vintage

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• If someone does something we disapprove of, we regard him as bad if we believe we can deter him from persisting in his conduct, but we regard him as mad if we believe we cannot.

  Thomas Szasz

  Believe, Doe, Regard

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.

  Hugh Leonard

  Confused, Silence, Sometimes

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