Mad Quotes - Page 6

• The way I cook it's more like mad science. There's a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Inspiration, Way, Gorgeous

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A song is not going to change this damn world. Instead of making people mad about this shitty situation, it's going to make everybody happy. It's a false thing. It's like a lullaby as opposed to a gun. People need to be slapped into reality and music just doesn't do that.

  Chaka Khan

  Song, Gun, Reality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No matter how much you love someone, on a bad day, you could say something terrible. All of the little things that you are saving to say, that you're mad about but never express, sometimes come out, all at once. We all have these terrible moments. That's just part of being human.

  Judd Apatow

  Bad Day, Matter, Saving

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 21, 2012.

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• If you're a pitcher, and you're pitching and you strike me out and you start celebrating on the mound and showing me off, whenever I get a hit off you, I'm going to go and celebrate, and you shouldn't get mad. If you're a pitcher and strike me out and show me respect and you don't show me up, when I get a homer or a hit, I'm not going to show you up. That's what I believe.

  Bengie Molina

  Believe, Pitching, Celebrate

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• In a mad world, it is the mad who are sane.

  Craig Nicholls

  World, Mad World, Sane

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

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• People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But the moment they attempt any depth or generality of thought, they go mad almost infallibly. The vast majority, of course, adopt the local religious madness, as naturally as they adopt the local dress. But the more powerful minds will, equally infallibly, fall into the worship of some intelligent and dangerous lunatic, such as Plato, or Augustine, or Comte, or Hegel, or Marx.

  David Stove

  Religious, Powerful, Plato

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• It is fun to see girls going mad about me or dancing around to get one glimpse of me. These are major perks of being an actor. But you need to be cautious and respectful.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Girl, Fun, Dancing

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• The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism - the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Night, Men, Race

  "Tolstoy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• And mad ambition trumpeteth to all.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Ambition

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1856). “The poems, sacred, passionate, and humorous, of Nathaniel Parker Willis”, p.196

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• For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it's usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.

  Margaret Atwood

  Song, Book, Play

  "Ophelia Has a Lot to Answer For". Speech at the Stratford Festival, September 1997.

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• But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.

  Aeschylus

  Soulmate, Passion, Heart

  Aeschylus (2011). “The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia”, p.117, Oxford University Press

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• When the ghost comes round at midnight Well you both can have some fun He can drive you mad, he can make you sad He can keep you from the sun When they take him down, he'll be both safe and sound And the hand does fit the glove And no matter what they tell you, There's good and evil in everyone.

  Van Morrison

  Fun, Hands, Safe And Sound

  Song: Who Was That Masked Man, Album: Veedon Fleece

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• Jerry Lewis played on the very first season of Mad About You, and he played basically himself, but he was called some other name. He said he's never done it; he'd never done a half-hour of [sitcom] television. This was 1992 or '93. And I said, "Well how is that?" And he goes, "Nobody ever asked me." It's like the pretty girl at the dance; everybody's too afraid to ask.

  Paul Reiser

  Girl, Names, Done

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. April 14, 2011.

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• Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle , on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair holding his wrists like Lifar and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour.

  Randall Jarrell

  Art, Thinking, Hair

  "The Lost World". Book by Randall Jarrell, p. 159, 1965.

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• The moon ... is a mad woman holding up her dress So that her white belly shines. Haughty, Impregnable, Ridiculous, Silent and white as a debauched queen.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Queens, Moon, White

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• Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?

  Maxim Gorky

  Truth, Men, Thinking

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• The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

  Jean Genet

  Fighting, Past, Reasoning

  Jean Genet (1960). “The Balcony: (Le Balcon) a Play in Nine Scenes”

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• I have seen mad people, and I have known some who were quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life, except on one point. They could speak clearly, readily, profoundly on everything; till their thoughts were caught in the breakers of their delusions and went to pieces there, were dispersed and swamped in that furious and terrible sea of fogs and squalls which is called MADNESS.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Intelligent, Fog, Sea

  Guy de Maupassant (2015). “The Horla (Horror Classic): From one of the greatest French writers, widely regarded as the ‘Father of Modern Short Story’ writing, known for The Necklace, Boule de Suif, Mademoiselle Fifi, Bel-Ami, The Piece of String, A Life…”, p.13, e-artnow

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• Strange how it is that men never act crueler than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing since Cain over who stands closer to god. It seems to me that cruelty is just in the way of things. You drive yourself mad if you take it all personal. Those who hurt you don't have the power over you they would like. That's why they do what they do.

  Marcel Theroux

  Hurt, Fighting, Men

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• If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.

  Sophocles

  Ifs

  Sophocles (1867). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Trans., with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes and Lyrical Dialogues”, p.64

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• First, the desert is the country of madness. Second, it is the refuge of the devil, thrown out into the "wilderness of upper Egypt" to "wander in dry places." Thirst drives man mad, and the devil himself is mad with a kind of thirst for his own lost excellence--lost because he has immured himself in it and closed out everything else. So the man who wanders into the desert to be himself must take care that he does not go mad and become the servant of the one who dwells there in a sterile paradise of emptiness and rage.

  Thomas Merton

  Country, Men, Egypt

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.21, Macmillan

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• It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.

  Wendell Berry

  People, Alternatives, Offers

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.

  Wendell Berry

  Heart, Brain, Sane

  Wendell Berry, Morris Allen Grubbs (2007). “Conversations with Wendell Berry”, p.16, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense.

  R. D. Laing

  Horizon, Steps, Common

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• My wife gets so jealous. She came home from work and was mad at me because there was a pretty girl on the bus she thought I would have liked.

  Ray Romano

  Girl, Home, Jealous

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