Mad Quotes

• The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Eye
  • Painter
  • France

• How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Truth

• I was very, very underdeveloped for my age, I hated what I looked like, so I thought everyone had gone stark raving mad.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Age
  • Mad
  • Underdeveloped

• I wanted to be an actor as a kid. My teacher in second grade had called a talent agency and had them call my house. My mom was so mad.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • House
  • Mom
  • Teacher

• I have three younger siblings, so the four of us were outside all the time after school playing games, making up games. My sister made up a game called 'roof ball.' We'd play that constantly. She always beat me in it, and it made me very mad. But we were outside all the time.

  

  Andrew Luck
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

  

  Maxine Hong Kingston
  • People
  • Mad

• You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Life
  • Mad

• I'm not the best fly fisherman, but I can fly-fish, because I crack a whip. I learned to crack a whip as a boy... I have skills, mad skills.

  

  Alex O'Loughlin
  • Boy
  • Mad
  • Fly

• Most people thought Gomer was stupid, dumb, a real klutz. But you study him, he really wasn't any of those things. Gomer just didn't want to see bad in anybody; you could never get him mad.

  

  Jim Nabors
  • People
  • Real
  • Bad

• The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest notion of what victory would look like, how it would be won, and what it might cost approached standards hitherto achieved only by slightly mad German warlords.

  

  Andrew Bacevich
  • War
  • Victory
  • Policy

• It's easy to fight when everything's right And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer when victory's near, And wallow in fields that are gory. It's a different song when everything's wrong, When you're feeling infernally mortal; When it's ten against one, and hope there is none, Buck up, little soldier, and chortle!

  

  Robert W. Service
  • War
  • Song
  • Fighting

• I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Fighting
  • Feelings
  • Terrible

• Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Mad
  • Genius
  • Guitar Playing

• Why you don't wanna let him talk? You mad, you maaad, you maaaaad.

  

  Cam'ron
  • Mad
  • Rapper

• If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

  

  Benedict Cumberbatch
  • People
  • Trying
  • Perception

• When you feel like you've had it up to here, and you're mad enough to scream, but you're sad enough to tear, that's rock bottom.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Tears
  • Sadness
  • Scream

• Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Good
  • Night
  • Light

• Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Mad

• I watch very selective television. I watch 'Mad Men,' and I usually watch a season at a time.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Time
  • Men
  • Mad

• In Robert's experience there were two kinds of classicists, the mad and the disconcertingly sane.

  

  Alan Edwin Petty
  • Mad
  • Disconcertingly
  • Classicists

• In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • World
  • Mad

• I do like to cook; I'm sort of a mad scientist in the kitchen.

  

  Kyle Chandler
  • Mad
  • Kitchen

• Every good love story is actually completely insane, completely mad.

  

  Vicky Krieps
  • Good
  • Mad

• In a mad world, it is the mad who are sane.

  

  Craig Nicholls
  • World
  • Mad
  • Sane

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