Mad Quotes - Page 12

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.

In forward bends, one uses the outer mind while in backbends the outer mind is silenced and the inner mind is made to work.

I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat and I built a boat.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.

He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.

If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights.

With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

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

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the Modifier's Madness. A lot of adjectives working overtime.

Ensure it feels like it's made by humans, for humans.

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.

Moroi shied from the sunlight but as I watched Sydney, I knew without a doubt that humans had been made for the sun.

The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.

Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.

If we confront anti-Semitism ... if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can stop the spread of this madness.

I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role.

I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but this was something else. This was the kind of hurt that could only be inflicted by someone you loved, who you thought loved you. It was sort of like being stabbed from the inside out.

Of course. I loved it so much it made me want to spit on you!!

Landscape is history made visible.

When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.