Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Noel Gallagher

Even in the nineties, when it was mad and there were photographers all around the house, it never occurred to me to send someone else out to get cigarettes. It took me five minutes - went for a walk, gave a wave, went back inside.

Miguel de Cervantes

Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.

Miguel de Cervantes

We are all as God made us and frequently much worse.

Taylor Caldwell

At 8, I made a pact with God.

The mayor and I haven't spoken for some time now and I think it's because he's pretty mad about all of this.

Jon Stewart

As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable.

Kate Winslet

You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?

Laurie Halse Anderson

Having a friend made everything else suck less.

Terry Goodkind

Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.

Stephen Fry

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

Robert Rodriguez

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

Rob Zombie

I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.

Voltaire

But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.

William Boyd

She's half mad and three parts drunk.

Woody Allen

I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.

William Saroyan

The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh?

Will Champion

At the end of the day, we're just trying to prevent each other from going mad.

Sarah Caldwell

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.

Samuel Rogers

The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.

Winston Smith

Sanity is not statistical - Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.

Rudyard Kipling

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Zora Neale Hurston

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.