Mad Quotes
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I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
Charles de Lint
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The world went mad and used us as an excuse.
John Lennon
The Beatles
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I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind,
I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had,
But O! my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind;
I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad.
William Butler Yeats
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True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Of all the sense of hearing acute.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply or you'd go mad.
Catherine Mayer
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All things built with tax money are beautiful: so we must think or go mad.
Catherynne M. Valente
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It seems to me that even the least of the human race is touched with genius when mad with love.
Evalyn Walsh McLean
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I was completely crazy and mad when I was young. I was absolutely in love with the dissolute.
John Hurt
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Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.
Jasper Fforde
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I certainly don't feel like I am desperate to run away from a film set. I love the hustle and bustle. Everything is sort of mad right before a take, and then it just settles, and you've got these two minutes of a bit of magic. I just love that in film.
Saoirse Ronan
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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
Jimmy Carter
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If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize for that. I ought to prune, pare and extirpate excess growth, but I will not. I like words—strike that, I love words—and while I am fond of the condensed and economical use of them in poetry, in song lyrics, in Twitter, in good journalism and smart advertising, I love the luxuriant profusion and mad scatter of them too.
Stephen Fry
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I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.
Vinny Guadagnino
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I’m not mad. I’m in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole.
Kurt Cobain
Nirvana
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To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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'Mad About You' fit my sensibility the most of any show that I worked on, and as a result, it was really fun. It felt like a very natural fit.
Maria Semple
