Mad Quotes

• The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself; and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Liberals are hopping mad because Rush Limbaugh referred to phony soldiers as 'phony soldiers.' They claim he was accusing all Democrats in the military of being 'phony.' True, all Democrats in the military are not phony soldiers, but all phony soldiers seem to be Democrats.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • True
  • Military
  • Mad

• So light a fire!" Harry choked. "Yes...of course...but there's no wood!" ... "HAVE YOU GONE MAD!" Ron bellowed. "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Light
  • Fire
  • Witch

• I ain't never called nobody no redskin. I've never been mad, like, 'Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.'

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Mad

• If you're doing your job right, some substantial group of people [is] going to be mad at you.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Job
  • Mad
  • Group Of People

• It's partly that I'm an extrovert and that I like being with people. If you shut me up in a library with nothing else around for weeks on end, I'd go mad! I have to sort of go out.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Up
  • Library

• Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.

  

  Thomas Starr King
  • Mad
  • Pounds

• I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Fear
  • Mad

• For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Mad
  • Convenient

• Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is mad and sent into England." "Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?" "Why, because he was mad. He shall recover his wits there, or, if he do not, it's no great matter there." "Why?" "'Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Fool
  • Born

• Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

  

  George Jean Nathan
  • Great
  • Music
  • Art

• If you look at 'Mad Men,' it's set in the wrong decade. The style of Mad Men is really the 1950s, not the 1960s.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • Men
  • Style
  • Mad

• I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this top. It's very 'Mad Men.'

  

  Alison Brie
  • Men
  • Mad
  • Shopping

• I'm pretty adventurous - the more wacky, the better! Sometimes I'll want to look chic, but lots of the time, I'll wear really mad colours and patterns, as it's just more fun.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• She may be mad, he realizes abruptly. Not clinically insane, just at odds with the entire universe. Locked into a pathological view of her own role in reality.

  

  Charles Stross
  • May
  • She
  • Reality

• Many creative people have a certain degree of dissatisfaction with the status quo, the established way. If you look at things differently, you are thought of as 'different.' In turn, 'different' people are thought to be 'mad.'

  

  Jim Henson
  • People
  • Different
  • Mad

• I get mad at the New York-based environmentalists because if you were truly environmentalists you wouldn't have a storm surge system and a sanitary system hooked together here that requires you to close your beaches 10 times a year.

  

  Aubrey McClendon
  • Together
  • Mad
  • Storm

• As a fan and collector of 'MAD' magazines as a kid, I am well aware that my art is unworthy. I remain in absolute awe of 'MAD' artist Mort Drucker and loved Wally Wood and Harvey Kurtzman and Al Jaffee and Don Martin and Angelo Torres and Peter Kuper and Sergio Aragones.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Art
  • Mad

• When I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: 'You shouldn't smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Mother
  • Beautiful
  • Hands

• My husband's a little younger than me. When I first started dating him, I just fell mad for him. I made a deal with myself: I was like, 'I'm not gonna get weird about what the future might be. I'm just going to be in every moment I can and enjoy us to the fullest.' I told him that, too.

  

  Joelle Carter
  • Future
  • Weird
  • Husband

• I remember playing the Mad Hatter in a school play and feeling very comfortable in the character.

  

  John Burnside
  • School
  • Character
  • Remember

• With 'Mad Men,' you feel like you're a member of Seal Team Six when you're shooting.

  

  Ben Feldman
  • Men
  • Team
  • Mad

• We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • World
  • True
  • Spiritual

• We're gonna be in a world of hurt if we don't get it fixed, because there's going to be billions of people out there - they're hungry, they're mad. One thing that they can get their hands on is guns.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Hurt

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