Maniacs Quotes - Page 6

• Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.

  Alice Hoffman

  Unrequited Love, Love Is, Sky

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.88, Penguin

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• Get rid of their mast, knock holes in the hull, then get back on board." "You want us to sink her?" Gundar asked, and Halt shook his head. "No. I want her badly damaged but capable of making it back to port. I want the word to go out that the strange ship with the red falcon ensign"—he gestured to Evanlyn's ensign, flying from the mast top—"is manned by dangerous, hairy maniacs with axes and is to be avoided at all costs." "That sounds like us," Gundar said cheerfully.

  John Flanagan

  Axes, Flying, Cost

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• Now Julie could stay here, in the Keep full of homicidal maniacs who grew teeth the size of switchblades and erupted into a violent frenzy when threatened.

  Ilona Andrews

  Teeth, Size, Violent

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.16, Penguin

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• You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.

  Victor Hugo

  Queens, Moments

  Victor Hugo (1988). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2”, Signet Classics

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• too many maniacs not enough michelangelos

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Enough

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• You take a bunch of people who don't seem any different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Together, Different

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31)”, p.23, Random House

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• It used to be thought that the events that changed the world were things like big bombs, maniac politicians, huge earthquakes, or vast population movements, but it has now been realized that this is a very old-fashioned view held by people totally out of touch with modern thought. The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.

  Neil Gaiman

  Butterfly, Views, Europe

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders - all maniacs. What else but a blind singlenee of purpose could have given focus to thier genius, would have kept them in the groove of purpose. Mania... is as priceless as genius.

  Ian Fleming

  Religious, Men, Goal

  "Dr. No". Book by Ian Fleming, ch. 15: Pandora's Box, 1958.

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• What kind of a maniac needed over five thousand plates?

  Nora Roberts

  Kind, Plates, Thousand

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection”, p.1209, Penguin

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• Just because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong.

  Rick Yancey

  Men, Homicidal

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.

  Bette Davis

  Art, Emotional, Discipline

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.

  Denis Diderot

  Motivation, Real, Would Be

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• I'm always telling the brothers some of those whites are willing to work with us against the pigs. All they got to do is stop talking honky. When the races start fighting, all you have is one maniac group against another.

  George Jackson

  Brother, Fighting, Race

  George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press

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• Hey Grover! Thorn's kidnapping us! He's a poisonous spike-throwing maniac! Help!

  Rick Riordan

  Hey, Helping, Throwing

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• Why not stand up, pump your fists in the air, and scream like a maniac? -

  Hayley Williams

  Air, Why Not, Fists

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• I would leave at once, but it would be cruel to abandon a lady in a foreign land with a maniac.

  Cassandra Clare

  Land, Would Be, Abandon

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• North Korea is making several demands in exchange for giving up their nuclear program, including a promise from America not to attack them. Which is a little strange because for us to attack them we would have to have slam dunk proof that they have weapons of mass destruction. I mean, for Gods sakes people, we're not maniacs. It would have to be an air-tight case. We wouldn't just come in there and start bombing you.

  Jon Stewart

  Giving Up, Mean, Mass Destruction

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