Mad Quotes

The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My opinion is that we shall be reincarnated.

Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.

The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

I fell in love at 14 and I remember that mad, tense feeling and all the mad things you do for the person - all those extremes and all the stuff you don't mind putting up with.

Of course Overlord did not fail. How could it? With some many fine young men and women from all corners of the earth all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad.

I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time.

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.

I believe in sometimes getting mad and always getting even.

True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness.

Mad? Is one who has solved the secret of life to be considered mad?

An undevout astronomer is mad.

It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

What an annoying mad thing love is!

Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it.

I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad.

Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.

I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we cry? You didn't get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million.

We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad.

Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.

Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.

Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.

If I were ever to go mad it would be on Thanksgiving Day, that day of guilt and grace when the family hangs upon you like an ax over a sacrificial victim, like the oven's heat on that poor bird.

He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.

The Republicans are mad at Donald Trump, and the Democrats are mad at Hillary Clinton. And the Bernie Sanders people are mad at everybody. When has that ever happened?

The only person who was a strong public opponent of the war in Iraq is Barack Obama. The other people weren't. So I can understand why all the left is mad, because they're being shut out.

Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies

We’re all a little mad, my friend. Keeps life interesting.

Look right through me, look right through me.

I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.

Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place.

Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.

My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me.

Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

If Mandela were a comedian, I bet he would never get mad at a heckler, he'd give him or her a hug.

Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -

She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad.

Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.

That's when the idea for Mad About the Boy arrived. It wasn't even a Bridget [Jones] story initially - then I realized I was writing in Bridget's voice and it grew from there into a Bridget novel.

My wife gets mad because we'll be in the middle of something and I'll stop and say, 'No, I've got to write this down!' She'll say, 'No! We're in a discussion!' I say, 'I know, but it's hilarious!

Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.

No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.