Mad Quotes - Page 34

• I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

  Anne Bronte

  Drinking, Men, Giving

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.247, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Sometimes Lennon needed McCartney and sometimes Simon needed Garfunkel. You'd go mad doing everything on your own.

  Jake Bugg

  Sometimes, Lennon, Needed

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

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• To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most.

  Jenson Button

  Morning, Race, Car

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• I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

  Michael Caine

  Positive, Book, Reading

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• In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.

  Benjamin Carson

  Kids, Thinking, Rocks

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• I always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'.

  Julian Casablancas

  Thinking, Edward Scissorhands, Lines

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• For my senior prom, my father finally said I could go - as long as I was home by 9pm! That was around the time that most people were heading out. When I was little I was so mad at them all the time. Why can't I do this? Why are there so many rules? But looking back now, my parents gave me the foundation to have so many choices in life.

  Amy Chua

  Senior, Father, Home

  "Amy Chua: 'I'm going to take all your stuffed animals and burn them!'". Interview with Heather Hodson, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2011.

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• There's nothing I don't love about 'Mad Men.'

  Andy Cohen

  Men, Mad Men

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• Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Regret, Winning, Hands

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• I'm a big fan of 'Mad Men.'

  Bryan Cranston

  Men, Fans, Bigs

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• I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad.

  Louis C. K.

  People, Social Media, Motivated

  "Louis C.K. on Twitter and Tracy Morgan". Interview with Austin L. Ray, www.cnn.com. June 21, 2011.

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• I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but Mad Men changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.

  Park Chan-wook

  Men, Air, Ideas

  "On my radar: Park Chan-wook". Interview with Corinne Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2013.

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• I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Night, Years

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• Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

  Diogenes

  Men, Insanity, Fingers

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• I always tell people I want to live to be 150 and they say why would you want to do that. I say, well there's a few people I haven't made mad yet, I want to get them.

  Mike Ditka

  Sports, Nfl, People

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• What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

  David Duchovny

  Air, Arrogance, Pretension

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• Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

  Euripides

  Depression, Insanity, Wish

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• I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that I want. If that makes you mad, we're living in a world of dire straits. If anything, it makes you more sane.

  Paloma Faith

  Thinking, Average Joe, Different

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• The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: "A funny little man asked me to marry him."

  Julian Fellowes

  Party, Men, Numbers

  "My family values". Interview with Hilary Whitney, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2009.

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• Some stuff I don't even put out. I'll just be home, happy, creating something for myself, and then ball it up and throw it in the trash. It's less about trying to prove something or get on somebody's list or make a fan happy or make a hater mad or convert a non-believer. That's not the case for me anymore.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Home, Creating, Trying

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• He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.

  Carrie Fisher

  Father, Adorable, Guy

  "'Get me to the funny bar'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2004.

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• I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

  Harrison Ford

  Travel, Stars, Book

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• Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Exercise, Old Friends, May

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• Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

  Sigmund Freud

  Crazy, Average, Ego

  "Analysis Terminable and Interminable". Book by Sigmund Freud, sect. 5, 1937.

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• Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.

  Noel Gallagher

  Artist, Insane, Eccentric

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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