Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Green

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

If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.

Mario Vargas Llosa

But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet made anyone fly.

Nicole Sullivan

When you are mad at yourself, you are mad at everybody.

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.

Maeve Binchy

I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

Luol Deng

They were just accidents. Luke said he was just testing my concussion. I'm not mad at him.

Melissa Auf der Maur

I made money. What am I gonna invest in? Stocks? No. Im going to invest in music.

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.

Maria Bamford

Here's the Middle East. Here's the mosque, here's the church, open the temple, everybody's MAD!

Mark Indelicato

You don't have to wear a sparkly dress all the time! You can wear something that's plain, really, it's okay. No one is going to be mad at you.

Marguerite Duras

Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it. But when it goes away you can't understand it at all any longer.

Ned Vizzini

Time is a person-made concept.

Naguib Mahfouz

Madness is the acme of intelligence.

R. D. Laing

The schizophrenic may indeed be mad. He is mad. He is not ill. I have been told by people who have been through the mad experience how what was then revealed to them was veritable manna from Heaven. The person's whole life may be changed, but it is difficult not to doubt the validity of such vision. Also, not everyone comes back to us again.

R. D. Laing

In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world.

R. D. Laing

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.

R. D. Laing

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

R. C. Sproul

We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.

Publilius Syrus

Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.

Publilius Syrus

Every madman considers everyone else a madman.

Leonardo da Vinci

The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me.

Patrick Rothfuss

This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly away. If one could pin it to paper all complete, the others would lay down their pens. But it cannot be done.

Patricia A. Woertz

Ive always enjoyed seeing how things are made.

Lev Grossman

As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad.

Larry Page

Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.

Paul Celan

We are told that when Hölderlin went 'mad,' he constantly repeated, 'Nothing is happening to me, nothing is happening to me.'

Oscar Wilde

As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.