Mad Quotes
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The schizophrenic may indeed be mad. He is mad. He is not ill. I have been told by people who have been through the mad experience how what was then revealed to them was veritable manna from Heaven. The person's whole life may be changed, but it is difficult not to doubt the validity of such vision. Also, not everyone comes back to us again.
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One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.
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There's nothing I don't love about 'Mad Men.'
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You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
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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.
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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
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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.
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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.
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I was very, very underdeveloped for my age, I hated what I looked like, so I thought everyone had gone stark raving mad.
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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.
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Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.
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Those who see beauty almost too intensely can easily look mad to those who are functioning within the confines of so-called normal life.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Why you don't wanna let him talk? You mad, you maaad, you maaaaad.
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Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.
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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.
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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!
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Prentice: I'm not mad. It only looks that way.Rance: Your actions today would get the Archbishop of Canterbury declared non-compos.Prentice: I'm not the Archbishop of Canterbury.Rance: That will come at a later stage of your illness.
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I do like to cook; I'm sort of a mad scientist in the kitchen.
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Every good love story is actually completely insane, completely mad.
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Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn't know about why it happened.
