Mad Quotes - Page 19

• They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

  Voltaire

  Religious, Men, Should

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• He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

  Francis Bacon

  Crazy, Animal, Solitude

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• It's a perfect day for letting go.

  Robert Smith

  Letting Go, Crazy, Perfect Days

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• Out of too much learning become mad.

  Robert A. Burton

  Learning, Too Much

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• The idea that the curtain rises on what is often more or less a happy scene, and it will fall just a few hours later, and everyone will be dead or have gone mad... I find that kind of narrative very appealing.

  Daniel Handler

  Fall, Ideas, Gone

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• You can’t get mad at a bear for being racist. You can’t get mad at a bear for being offensive. It’s not real.

  Mila Kunis

  Real, Racist, Bears

  Interview with James Franco, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2012.

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• Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

  Voltaire

  Strong, Drinking, Men

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• I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another.

  Bill Lee

  Running, Home, Play

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• I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

  Sting

  Madness, Being Mad

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• It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

  Voltaire

  Success, Winning, Order

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• We are content in the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.

  Jim Morrison

  Eye, Dark, Dancing

  Jim Morrison (1971). “The Lords and The New Creatures”, Touchstone

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• YouTube is a new experience for me-someone threw a laptop in front of me and showed me Nic Cage going mad, which has got to be the funniest thing on YouTube. He's so courageous.

  Val Kilmer

  New Experiences, Laptops, Cages

  Interview with Piotr Uklanski, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 24, 2011.

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• An undevout astronomer is mad.

  Edward Young

  Astronomers

  'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 9' l. 769

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• Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

  Marc Edwards

  Humorous, People, Comfort

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• I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we cry? You didn't get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million.

  Eric Davis

  Years, Guy, Remember

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

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• I'm glad nobody has asked me to adapt 'Wuthering Heights' because I think I would make a mess of it. Everybody makes a mess of it. I think the Bronte Sisters are mad.

  Andrew Davies

  Thinking, Height, Bronte

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• I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad. You exist in a bubble. There comes a point where you suddenly feel not really a part of the world, you're just passing through.

  Chris Lowe

  Thinking, Gone, World

  "The Pet Shop Boys' Commandments". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2003.

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• If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from choosing or doing the worst, be liberty, true liberty, madmen and fools are the only freemen: but yet, I think, nobody would choose to be mad for the sake of such liberty, but he that is mad already.

  John Locke

  Thinking, Liberty, Examination

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• But this is not a world of free freights. One pays according to an iron schedule--for every strength the balanced weakness; for every high a corresponding low; for every fictitious god-like moment an equivalent time in reptilian slime. For every feat of telescoping long days and weeks of life into mad magnificent instants, one must pay with shortened life, and, oft-times, with savage usury added.

  Jack London

  Iron, Long, World

  Jack London (2016). “John Barleycorn”, p.28, Xist Publishing

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• I used to be mad on the games, but I had to ban myself. I used to spend three dollars on games, [but] it adds up, so now I'm on the social side of things like Twitter and Instagram. I love my weather apps. I guess because all the Brits are obsessed with weather.

  Tom Felton

  Games, Weather, Sides

  "Tom Felton’s Television Villain". Interview with Niki Cruz, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2014.

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• You'd see extraordinary-looking people around in the '70s. It was so exciting! You'd have mad people, like Gerlinde Kostiff riding around on her bicycle with a huge hat. Everybody was doing things. I don't have any bad memories of that period.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Memories, People, Riding

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only insane, but mad... I think I see one or two quick blows that will astonish the natives of the South and will convince them that, though to stand behind a big cottonwood and shoot at a passing boat is good sport and safe, it may still reach and kill their friends and families hundreds of miles off. For every bullet shot at a steamboat, I would shoot a thousand 30-pounder Parrots into even helpless towns on Red, Ouachita, Yazoo, or wherever a boat can float or soldier march.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Sports, Thinking, Blow

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• 1,000 cows in the U.S. are alive at night and dead in the morning. These cows on the ground are ground into feed, making their fellows not only carnivores but cannibals. Europe after Mad Cows' Disease has banned this practice. The U.S has not yet.

  Howard Lyman

  Morning, Night, Europe

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• Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.

  W. H. Auden

  Acting, Actors, Sane

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• Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.

  Khalil Gibran

  Mean, Secret, Purpose

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