Mad Quotes - Page 59

Once a decision is made, you should stop worrying and start working. It’s not always what we know that makes it a good decision. It is what we do to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.

I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.

All man-made religions are limited. I go my own way.

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.

Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.

Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

The ancients, by their system of colonization, made themselves friends all over the known world; the moderns have sought to make subjects, and therefore have made enemies.

A tax can never be favorable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds.

The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.

There's art on the show that's really bad - these cliché Abstract Expressionist gestural things. It's almost like extensions of my performance, because in the scene I'm really mad.

How I wished I'd have had a camera of my own, a mad mental camera that could register pictorial shots, of the photographic artist himself prowling about for his ultimate shot - an epic in itself. (On the road with Robert Frank, 1958)

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.

I made 'Rio Bravo' with John Wayne. It worked out pretty well and we both liked it, so a few years later we decided to make it again. Worked out pretty good that time, too.

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

If adjustment is necessary, it should be made primarily with regard to the position the homosexual occupies in present-day society, and society should more often be treated than the homosexual.

A dancer on break approached him. She smiled. Each tooth was angled in a different direction, as if her mouth were the masterwork of a mad orthodontist. "Hi," she said. "Hi." "You're really cute." "I don't have any money." She spun and walked away. Ah, romance.

I have a love of gear and pedals, from old pedals to new ones with new sounds. If I get depressed, I start looking for a certain type of pedal, learn the history, who and what it was made for, that kinda thing.

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.

I've never made movies to reach millions of people.