Mad Quotes - Page 53

Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius

It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.

I've never made the film I wanted to make. No matter what happens, it never turns out exactly as I hoped.

Perhaps the Mad Hatter had a reason for calling time Him.

I'd had my time in the charts and made loads of money. I was no longer hungry for success.

It was impossible to get the Dimitri and Tasha thing out of my head, but at least packing and getting ready made sure I didn't devote 100 percent of my brain power to him. More like 95 percent.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

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.

Man was not made for himself alone

If you're doing your job right, some substantial group of people [is] going to be mad at you.

Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.

The better portion of all sales I have made were made after people had said 'no'.

Too much sanity may be madness!

Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.

Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.

I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.

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.

My work embodies little visions of the great intangible. ... Some will say he's gone mad - others will look and say he's looked in at the lattices of Heaven and come back with the madness of splendor on him.

What was a really private and nice relationship was judged and made to be something ugly.

There's so much that you can get mad about. Out of self-preservation, I focus on being grateful.

But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet made anyone fly.

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

Real isn't how you are made... It's a thing that happens to you.

I'm paying for a mistake I made