Mania Quotes - Page 4

• What beefsteak is to Argentina, flamenco to Spain, cool reserve and self-control in all situations to an Englishman, what vodka is to a Russian and beer to a Bavarian, what money is to a Swiss, that is outdoor-life to an Australian. It is a noble mania, better than vodka, better than cool reserve, better than money.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humor, Beer

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• My zest for exhibition has over a long career become increasingly a mania. The ecstasy I feel as I survey work I have done I want to share with the world - not the whole world which couldn't care less, but my private world, which is my country, Canada.

  Joseph Plaskett

  Country, Zest, Careers

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• You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It's a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.

  Catherine the Great

  Alcohol, Stronger, Want

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• Mania can be as terrifying as it gets. It is certainly as insane as one gets and so it's frightening when it gets out of control, but there are periods of mania when it can be extremely attractive.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Insane, Attractive, Periods

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature, etcetera.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Writing, People, Etcetera

  Joseph Brodsky, Cynthia L. Haven (2002). “Joseph Brodsky: Conversations”, p.80, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There's no doubt in my mind that we'll have a mania in gold. And because the gold and especially silver markets are so tiny, the rush into them will be like trying to push the contents of Hoover Dam through a garden hose. Our positions will go absolutely ballistic.

  Doug Casey

  Garden, Doubt, Mind

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• Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a character that is out of balance. It is not at all that the scientist goes after the truth.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Attitude, Passion, Character

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• Over the years a photo-mania developed. At times, photographic images have signaled a way forward and gotten me out of a bind.

  Leon Golub

  Years, Way Forward, Way

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• Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Enough, Working It

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• Mania is a wonderful feeling.

  Jeff Bridges

  Feelings, Wonderful

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• Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.

  Enzo Ferrari

  Sacrifice, Racing, Hesitation

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

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• Putin's an egomaniac, so there are two ways he can process his ego mania. He can say, "Oh, I stood up to the U.S.," or, "Hey, I'm essential to the world order."

  David Brooks

  Order, Two, Ego

  Meet the Press Debate, www.nbcnews.com.

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• The patient needs to believe that they can keep the fire while being medicated. The doctors must tell them, "I understand that you experienced something beautiful. I understand that you saw the stars pulsing spirals of fire across the sky like Van Gogh did when he was looking outside the sanitarium window. But you know what? He didn't paint ['Starry Night'] when he was manic. He painted it when he was sane because he didn't need the mania to have the magic."

  Paul Dalio

  Beautiful, Stars, Believe

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I've written this song called 'Insania' - it's a mix of Insane and Mania, and even though it's a made up word you instantly know what it means!

  Peter Andre

  Song, Mean, Insane

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• But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is decimated, your mortification complete: mania is not a luxury one can easily afford. It is devastating to have the illness and aggravating to have to pay for medications, blood tests, and psychotherapy. They, at least, are partially deductible. But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Loss, Luxury

  Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison (2007). “Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression”, p.40, Oxford University Press

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• I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania.

  Lord Byron

  Atheism, Methodists, Positive Atheism

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• Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.

  Henry James

  Caring, Garden, Long

  Henry James (2016). “The Letters of Henry James”, p.298, The Floating Press

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• The Hulk, a being of pure tortured id, bipolar mania unbound, sprung from the subconscious of a repressed, scientist with a dark childhood.

  Max Landis

  Dark, Childhood, Bipolar

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• Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums.

  PSY

  Queens, Gun, Rocks

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• Tell me a story.
  In this century, and moment, of mania,
  Tell me a story.
  Make it a story of great distances, and starlight.
  The name of the story will be Time,
  But you must not pronounce its name.
  Tell me a story of deep delight.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Distance, Names, Delight

  Robert Penn Warren, “Tell Me A Story”

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• Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.

  James Buchan

  Fall, Dust, Bulls

  "Greed and amnesia: the devils in financial history". www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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• A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt, Communist-infiltrated from top to bottom.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Country, Past, Europe

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• Beloved, we are always in the wrong, Handling so clumsily our stupid lives, Suffering too little or too long, Too careful even in our selfish loves: The decorative manias we obey Die in grimaces round us every day, Yet through their tohu-bohu comes a voice Which utters an absurd command - Rejoice.

  W. H. Auden

  Selfish, Stupid, Voice

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• The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance ... or change. Once such incantatory phrases as "we see now through a glass darkly" and "mysterious are the ways". He chooses His wonders to perform" are mastered, logic can be happily tossed out the window". Religious mania is one of the few infallible ways of responding to the world's vagaries, because it totally eliminates pure accident. To the true religious maniac, it's all on purpose.

  Stephen King

  Religious, Glasses, Purpose

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• Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease.

  Monica Dickens

  Nursing, Blood, Fever

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