Mad Quotes - Page 15

• The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Uganda, Islands, Water

  "Kenyan MPs' Fury Over Island Row". news.bbc.co.uk. May 13, 2009.

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• I'm trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws and meaningless customs.

  Charles Stross

  Fun, Crazy, Reflection

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.88, Penguin

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• Lawyers are like professional wrestlers. They pretend to get mad and fight, but then they socialize after a trial is over.

  Robert Whitlow

  Fighting, Trials, Lawyer

  Robert Whitlow (2006). “The Trial”, p.330, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Too much philosophy makes men mad.

  Alan Judd

  Philosophy, Men, Too Much

  Alan Judd (2014). “The Noonday Devil”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully worshipped from afar. Initiation, on the other hand, requires direct participation and demands each of us to smash the casket and press mad lips to mystery, wooing her as a lover who will offer up her treasurers in a succession of sweet surrenders. This she will do, but only in exact ratio to our evolving ability and worthiness to receive them.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Sweet, Princess, Glasses

  Lon Milo DuQuette (2012). “The Sons of Osiris: A Side Degree: Magical Antiquarian, A Weiser Books Collection”, p.6, Weiser Books

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• That holy, humble, meek, modest, retiring Form, sometimes called the Spirit of Prayer, has been dragged from the closet, and so rudely handled by some of her professed friends, that she has not only lost all her wonted loveliness, but is now stalking the street, in some places, stark mad.

  Asahel Nettleton

  Prayer, Humble, Spirit

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 193, 1895.

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• Maybe love isn't just
  a bouquet of roses once in a while. Maybe it's just sticking it out, when it's hard, when you're mad, when
  you're tired.

  Kristan Higgins

  Tired, Love Is, Rose

  Kristan Higgins (2013). “The Best Man”, p.279, HQN Books

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• We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm actually not.

  Billy Childish

  Believe, People, Freak

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• If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world.

  Saib Tabrizi

  World, Earth, Faces

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• High in the sky is a bird on a wing
  Please carry me with you
  Far far away from the mad rushing crowd
  Please carry me with you.

  Tom Springfield

  Sky, Wings, Rushing

  "Song: 'Island of Dreams'". 1961.

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• Along with supernature and science, there is one other major source of horror movies disorder: the human psyche, most commonly homicidal psychosis. Unlike 'mad' scientists, horror-movies madmen are not visionary obsessives, glorifying in scientific reason as they single-mindedly purse their researches. They are, rather, victims of overpowering impulses that well up from within; monsters brought forth by the sleep of reason, not by its attractions.

  Andrew Tudor

  Sleep, Psychosis, Monsters

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• In the century that has just passed, many of the intellectual elite went mad. It was as if, with the death of God, everyone suddenly turned into a saviour who wanted either to annihilate the obsolete world order or to establish a utopia. Naturally, there were writers among those who went mad. The fact that they had knowledge did not exempt intellectuals: there is madness everywhere. When one loses control over one's self, the result is madness.

  Gao Xingjian

  Self, Order, Intellectual

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• Our players are mad, but it's good mad.

  Nancy Lopez

  Sports, Player

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• When it comes to losing with United, I feel solely responsible for it. I can't help it. My brain will work like mad after a defeat. I want to know where I have made the wrong decisions, how I could have changed things for this fantastic club.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Sports, Decision, Brain

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• What happens on “Mad Men” in terms of the acting and the writing and the directing, it’s superior. And yes, it has tremendous cache and buzz because it’s become iconic, but it also deserves all the kudos and the awards as well, because it’s a beautiful show to look at.

  Kurt Sutter

  Beautiful, Writing, Men

  "Kurt Sutter Reflects On ‘Mad Men’ Controversy: Beef Was With AMC, Not Matt Weiner". Interview with Alex Moaba, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2012.

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• It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people. We know the world is rotten and that chins are ruined by spots.

  Sue Townsend

  Suicide, People, Rotten

  Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”

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• You know daytime television? You know what it's supposed to be for? It's to keep unemployed people happy. It's supposed to stop them running to the social security demanding mad luxuries like cookers and windows.

  Victoria Wood

  Running, Luxury, People

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• Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Knives, Wife, Smoking

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1865). “Verses and Translations”, p.61

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• Of course a certain number of scientists have to go mad, just to keep the tradition alive.

  Matt Ruff

  Numbers, Alive, Tradition

  Matt Ruff (2012). “Fool on the Hill: A Novel”, p.210, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.

  Willard Wigan

  Hair, Professors

  "Microsculptor's Incredible Hulk Fits in Eye of Needle" by Hugh Hart, www.wired.com. August 19, 2009.

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• I genuinely believed no one would want to marry me. I am difficult to live with. I'm selfish, quite weird and I need time on my own to think - and then I work all night long. That is difficult for someone to deal with. And it would drive me mad - I could never be my own girlfriend!

  Simon Cowell

  Girlfriend, Selfish, Night

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• It's easiest to write songs when I'm either really in love or really mad at a guy. It's just always best when I'm feeling superemotional.

  Avril Lavigne

  Song, Writing, Guy

  "Avril Uncensored". Interview with Lesley Goober, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

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

  Sarah Caldwell

  Actors, Quiet, Easy

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• The phenomenal success of the recovery movement reflects two simple truths that emerge in adolescence: all people love to talk about themselves, and most people are mad at their parents. You don't have to be in denial to doubt that truths like these will set us free.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Recovery, Simple, Two

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• If I were ever to go mad it would be on Thanksgiving Day, that day of guilt and grace when the family hangs upon you like an ax over a sacrificial victim, like the oven's heat on that poor bird.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Thanksgiving, Bird, Grace

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