Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Hornby

You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad.

Mary MacLane

I've never made plans for more than a day ahead.

Mary McCarthy

Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.

Mark Twain

Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

John Green

I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation.

P. T. Barnum

I risked much, but I made much.

Paul Brown

We don't have mad cow disease. We probably never will have mad cow disease, and therefore, it's a non-problem in the United States.

Matt Groening

Of course I’ve gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring and no one listens to you! — Russ Cargill

Marion Cotillard

You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

Michel de Montaigne

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

Michael Schenker

I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.

Mark Twain

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

Christopher Fry

What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

Christina Hoff Sommers

It's no wonder there is a mad scramble for victim status on many campuses today. It confers authority and prestige.

Chris Rock

I just remember that whenever I got really mad or passionate, like in an argument, people would laugh, and I'd be dead serious. It would happen a lot. So it was like, Gee, I've got something here.

George W. S. Trow

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

George Orwell

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I...I wanted to have the daring...and I killed her.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

Mike Lowry

And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves.

Jorge Luis Borges

He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.

Kellan Lutz

I'd love to be a mad scientist who plays around with chemistry, and solves all the world's problems and creates a few of them himself.

Kathy Reichs

Everyone’s gone mad, typing to themselves all day long like mindless robots.

Novalis

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Emile M. Cioran

What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.

Ellen DeGeneres

Then you have these people in the movie theaters that talk the whole time during the movie. You ever go with somebody like that to a movie but you don't realize until you get there that you're with somebody like that? Brand new movie. First day it's open. You're there together and the entire time they're sitting there: Where's she going? Why'd he do that? Is he mad at her? I don't know, let's watch and find out together shall we? You know who you are. You're denying it right now: I do not do that. Why is she saying that?. What's she gonna say next?

Eric Alterman

Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms.

Epictetus

Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?

Emily Bronte

Terror made me cruel.

Emily Giffin

I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad.

Ellen Page

Usually, when you're in a movie, you're disconnected from it. You're never going to feel what you felt when you made it.

Elaine Stritch

Why haven't I made more movies? Nobody asked me.