Famous Quotes & Sayings

Conrad Aiken

I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a note. But I learned to play the piano and became pretty skillful at improvisation, especially after a drop or two.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.

George Harrison

While everybody else was going mad, we were actually the sanest people in the whole thing.

Jim Butcher

At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips.

Ice T

It's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things.

Isaiah Berlin

Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth: especially about how to live, what to be and do - and that those who differ from them are not merely mistaken, but wicked or mad: and need restraining or suppressing.

Ian Mcewan

i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.

Derrick Williams

If I didn't play, I wouldn't play. I would not be mad at all.

Charlize Theron

I was a little mad at myself because I feel very fortunate,

Walid Jumblatt

How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.

Samuel Johnson

Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

Young Jeezy

I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.

Scott Jones

I'm mad with numbers...there are too many of them.

Ray Rice

I'm mad - I feel it for the seniors. This feeling, you don't want to feel like this anymore.

I'm just mad right now. This isn't the way to end your career.

Mike Lowry

And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves.

Kellan Lutz

I'd love to be a mad scientist who plays around with chemistry, and solves all the world's problems and creates a few of them himself.

Kathy Reichs

Everyone’s gone mad, typing to themselves all day long like mindless robots.

Kurt Cobain

I’m not mad. I’m in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole.

Louise Bourgeois

I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.

Jake Bugg

Sometimes Lennon needed McCartney and sometimes Simon needed Garfunkel. You'd go mad doing everything on your own.

Mahatma Gandhi

Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.

James Joyce

Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

Kyle MacLachlan

I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession

Jon Ronson

Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.

You can't get mad at the refs. They made the call. Live with it and get better at it. A lot of them you think are ticky-tack, but a penalty is a penalty.

Enoch Powell

We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.

Norman O. Brown

Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

Olivia Colman

This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely time, and then you forget anyone's going to see it. So it's always a bit of a shock to be recognized. I get terribly embarrassed.

Ellen DeGeneres

Then you have these people in the movie theaters that talk the whole time during the movie. You ever go with somebody like that to a movie but you don't realize until you get there that you're with somebody like that? Brand new movie. First day it's open. You're there together and the entire time they're sitting there: Where's she going? Why'd he do that? Is he mad at her? I don't know, let's watch and find out together shall we? You know who you are. You're denying it right now: I do not do that. Why is she saying that?. What's she gonna say next?

Epictetus

Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?

Kimberly Elise

I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.