Madness Quotes - Page 18

• The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Mad, Frustrated, Progress

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• What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

  Nellie Bly

  Mysterious Things, Silence, Forever

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.82, Golgotha Press

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• Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

  Niels Bohr

  Crazy, Science, Technology

  "First Philosophy: The Theory of Everything". Book by Spencer Scoular, 2007.

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• We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

  Niels Bohr

  Crazy, Feelings, Statistics

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

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• Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

  Bono

  Thinking, People, Ifs

  Hot Press Magazine, March 2000.

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• To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

  Edward de Bono

  Successful, Mad, Growth

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• We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Stupid, Self, People

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• I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Thinking, Mad, Figures

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• Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

  Jo Brand

  Comedy, Bad Things

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• The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn
  When teachers themselves are taught to learn.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Teacher, Crazy, Literature

  "Life of Galileo". Play by Bertolt Brecht, 1939.

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• There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Divides, Greater

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• Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Weed, Marijuana, People

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• Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

  Charles Bukowski

  Life, Crazy, People

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• It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'

  John Cage

  Mean, Listening, Acquisition

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.78, Wesleyan University Press

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• All of my characters have a glint of madness.

  Nicolas Cage

  Character

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• America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

  John le Carre

  America, Literature, Remember

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• I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.

  Jim Carrey

  Mother, Crazy, Used

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• The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

  Willa Cather

  Life, Beautiful, Truth

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.305, Courier Corporation

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• So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Long, Function

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Vitality, Stores

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  By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

  Christopher Columbus

  School, Goal, May

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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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• But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes.

  Cindy Crawford

  Beach, Morning, House

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• Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.

  Larry Dixon

  Team, Winning, People

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• Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Meaningful, Work, Men

  "Fire Up Your Life: Living with Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Prove, Nothing to Lose". Book by Ken Davis (p. 31), 1995.

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