Erich Segal Quotes

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

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• Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Actor
  • Just
  • Brilliant

• I've always thought George Carlin was brilliant.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Brilliant

• Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Parents
  • Lives
  • Brilliant

• Writing is a form of licensed madness.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Writing
  • Madness
  • Licensed

• Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

  

  Ted Morgan
  • Man
  • Army
  • Madness

• Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Blessed
  • Enemies
  • Brilliant

• Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Dream
  • Youth
  • Madness

• I think 'Girls' is pretty brilliant.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Brilliant

• Michael Hogan is an absolutely brilliant actor, so anytime I get to work with someone of that caliber, I get excited.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Brilliant

• There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • Reason
  • For Her

• The 24 Hour Plays is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Play
  • Hours
  • Events

• We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge of it...'They're in love'...they have none. Then...just as you're relaxing...a Great Big Juggernaut arrives...with their baggage. It Got Held Up. One of the greatest myths men have about women is that we overpack.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Women
  • Knowledge
  • Brilliant

• Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Love
  • Desire
  • For Her

• George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Brilliant
  • Wrote
  • Grammar

• Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Power
  • Weakness
  • Horror

• To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • World
  • Madness
  • Sane

• The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Long
  • Suffering
  • Madness

• KISS is the most brilliant band ever to be alive, and Gene Simmons is the coolest guy that ever lived.

  

  Edward Furlong
  • Guy
  • Band
  • Kiss

• Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.

  

  William Cowper
  • Truth
  • Knows
  • Brilliant

• Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Consequence
  • Madness
  • Uncertainty

• It's great when a huge amount of money goes from a dumb corporation into the hands of an awesome band with brilliant ideas who can use it to keep being a band for a year, as opposed to a band that's already huge taking one of those things - that's more pathetic.

  

  Alex Scally Beach House
  • Band
  • Dumb
  • Brilliant

• Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For some of us, this may mean ridding ourselves of most of our possessions. But for all of us it should mean dedicating everything we retain to further the kingdom. (For true disciples, however, it cannot mean hoarding or using kingdom assets self-indulgently.)

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Kingdom
  • Giving Up
  • Purposes

• Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

  

  Erich Segal
  • Brilliant
  • Madness