Madness Quotes - Page 19

• To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That’s why, when people meet you and you seem very together, they are quite surprised - they don’t see you behind closed doors.

  Nicole Kidman

  Doors, People, Together

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Feb 12, 2017

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• I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.

  Meg Ryan

  Thinking, Life Is, Loud

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• Cancer is the growth of madness denied.

  Norman Mailer

  Cancer, Growth, Denied

  Norman Mailer (2013). “An American Dream: A Novel”, p.254, Random House

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• Hey, don't knock Judy Blume. Without her, my younger self would never have been able to decode the random acts of madness perpetrated by the fascinating creature known as the teenage girl.

  Ken Marino

  Girl, Teenage, Self

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. August 30, 2011.

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• Look, isn't there any way you can just stamp me as not crazy and let me get outta here.

  Kyle Chandler

  Crazy, Looks, Way

  "Fictional character: Gary Hobson". "Early Edition", www.imdb.com. 1996 - 2000.

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• I do really crazy things all the time, but I can't think of anything offhand

  Casper Van Dien

  Crazy, Thinking, I Can

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• What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today how fragile we all are, how delicate we are, even when fizzing with divine madness that seems like it will never expire.

  Russell Brand

  Nice, Dead Poets Society, Hunting

  "Russell Brand: Robin Williams’ Divine Madness Will No Longer Disrupt the Sadness of the World". The Guardian Opinion Page, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2014.

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• I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Crazy, Advantage, Brat

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• The term papers make me more crazy, because they involve more variables I cannot directly control! With acting, I feel more power-like I'm making all the choices.

  Fred Savage

  Crazy, Term Paper, Choices

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

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• An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

  Kim Stanley

  Excess, Reason, Form

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• Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a time, it must be mad to have a true image of what that time is. To one madness we oppose another madness.

  Max Ernst

  Art, Men, Mirrors

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• If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness
  Maybe not, oh, but we can only try.

  Carole King

  Life, Trying, Answers

  Twitter post from Mar 15, 2017

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• Alas! they had been friends in youth;
  But whispering tongues can poison truth,
  And constancy lives in realms above;
  And life is thorny, and youth is vain;
  And to be wroth with one we love
  Doth work like madness in the brain.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Brain, Poison

  'Christabel' pt. 2 (1800) (l. 408)

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• Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens
  Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel
  It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

  John Ford

  Life, Running, Heart

  John Ford (1831). “The Dramatic Works of John Ford: The lover's melancholy. The broken heart. Perkin Warbeck”, p.63

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• I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Politics, Militarism, Global Issues

  Sermon at Temple Israel of Hollywood, delivered 26 February 1965

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• When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Love, Romantic, Marriage

  "Fictional character: Iannis". "Captain Corelli's Mandolin", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, 'I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.' If he had not been traumatized by this loss, Sir Isaac might well have gone on to discover the Fourth Law of Motion: For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.

  Warren Buffett

  Stars, Business, Loss

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. 2005.

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• Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

  John Sterling

  Emotional, Elements, Leading On

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.116

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• Man in his madness doesn't realize that God has made him from amoeba to this stage for some purpose. There is a big purpose behind it. And the purpose is that now you have to know your Spirit, by which you enter into the Kingdom of God. You have to enter into the Kingdom of God. How? What is your passport? Is your Spirit. Because when the Spirit starts shining within you, you start transforming. You start transforming into a new being - into a new personality with a new awareness and you are a different person. Your priorities change.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.

  Richard Gere

  Kindness, Responsibility, Compassion

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• When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.

  S. N. Goenka

  Yoga, Faults, Disappear

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• The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.

  Walter Raleigh

  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works”, p.568

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• We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Life, Motivational

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

  Augustus Saint-Gaudens

  Art, Insanity, Salad

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• You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

  Nora Ephron

  Love, Marriage, Dog

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.80, Vintage

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