Richard Scott Bakker Quotes
To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.Richard Scott Bakker
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
Mal Peet -
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Manolo Blahnik -
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 -
O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
Quintus Ennius -
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I remember a West Coast run with Madness and another with Adam Ant, later a long run through the Midwest with Berlin and a few gigs with Eurythmics.
Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister -
I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns
Kanye West -
I don't know if you know it, J.B., but you're the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to fall under suspicion when he's found stabbed in his library with a paper-knife of Oriental design.
P. G. Wodehouse -
I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it's absurd to tack a 'sir' on to every sentence. The two things don't go together.
P. G. Wodehouse -
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
Anne Carson -
Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.
Anthony Daniels
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I was known for throwing knives.
D'arcy Wretzky The Smashing Pumpkins -
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 -
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
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 -
Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.
Douglas Jerrold -
Given one has before oneself a strong, healthy, youth rich in spirited blood and a powerless, weak, cachectic old man scarcely capable of breathing. If now the physician wishes to practise the rejuvenating art on the latter, he should make silver tubes which fit into each other: open then the artery of the healthy person and introduce one of the tubes into it and fasten it into the artery; thereupon he opens also the artery of the ill person...
Andreas Libavius
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Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe.
Zooey Deschanel -
I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.
Allan Sherman -
To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.
Richard Scott Bakker