Beth Revis Quotes

If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?

Beth Revis

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• About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Rest
  • Design
  • Madness

• 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

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

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Dream
  • Youth
  • Madness

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

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • Reason
  • For Her

• 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
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Madness

• Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Love
  • Desire
  • For Her

• 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

• Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Sanity
  • Permanent
  • Neurosis

• Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Luck

• A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Society
  • Sanity
  • Eccentricity

• To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.

  

  Richard Scott Bakker
  • Madness
  • Knives
  • Indulge

• To remember everything is a form of madness.

  

  Brian Friel
  • Remember
  • Form
  • Madness

• Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal restraint for the sake of the nation as a whole. We need a new era of fiscal sanity. I am not willing to subject my children and grandchildren to the level of debt that Congress has created.

  

  John Ensign
  • Children
  • Grandchildren
  • Sanity

• No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

  

  Aristotle
  • Madness
  • Existed
  • Great Minds

• Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.

  

  Aristotle
  • Spirit
  • Madness
  • Profit

• No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Madness
  • Excellent

• Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.

  

  Will Self
  • Past
  • Madness
  • Individuality

• There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

  

  William Allen White
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Insanity

• As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at the same time improving the science itself; neither can we, on the other hand, improve a science without improving the language or nomenclature which belongs to it.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Time
  • Science
  • Words

• His kind of courage was boundless, though, and he would not have turned away a person in need, whether a star performer or a simple laborer or a child such as Theo with no skills at all. It was not about the circus or family connections, but human decency. Herr

  

  Pam Jenoff
  • Person
  • Courage
  • Boundless

• I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Dance
  • Laughter
  • Spirit Of Gravity

• If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?

  

  Beth Revis
  • Madness
  • Sanity