Mad Quotes · Page 34

Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself.

— Leo Tolstoy

When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.

— Chinua Achebe

Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth.

— Michel Faber

I'm not mad when people talk bad about me; that's the way it is.

— Miguel Cabrera

I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm…

— Hilary Mantel

Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

— Mark Twain

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

— Kenneth Branagh

“The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others, but with yourself.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I have always been happy to have daughters rather than sons. You never really can be mad at girls for anything in…

— Bernie Ecclestone

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting…

— Sylvia Plath

You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it…

— Eric Roth

If I were ever to go mad it would be on Thanksgiving Day, that day of guilt and grace when the family…

— Francine du Plessix Gray

Sometimes I get mad when I think that I only have maybe 40 or 50 more springs in New York. When I…

— Topher Grace

Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling to a…

— Paul Bloom

I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.

— Lydia Lunch

How could Triple H EVER be mad, how could he EVER have a bad day? How would you like to be married…

— Jerry Lawler

I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has…

— Victor Hugo

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fitzcarraldo is a mad dreamer. He's willing to sacrifice everything in order to make his vision of an opera house. That metaphor…

— Sam Pressman

Let us see as steadily and completely as possible the realities of our age: the wasted lives, the scattered and misused resources…

— Clarence John Laughlin

To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and…

— Eugene O'Neill

I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in…

— Paloma Faith

It’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at…

— Alan Ball

Ever argue with a female and, in the middle of the argument, you no longer feel safe because of her actions? She…

— Kevin Hart

I don't like that putdown: that when you're trying to achieve, you're trying to be white. That makes me mad.

— Roxie Roker

Even when I use a word in the wrong order in a sentence, I get mad. It's very stressful.

— Jet Li

I really enjoy 'Mad Men,' but I'm hugely into 'Homeland.' The characters are very well drawn and complex.

— Ruth Bradley

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

— Charles de Lint

I eat football, I sleep football. I am not mad I am just passionate

— Thierry Henry

Chess is not something that drives people mad; it is something that keeps mad people sane.

— William Hartston

I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.

— John Slattery

You can't be happy that fire cooks your food and be mad it burns your fingertips.

— Chris Rock

You know, 'Mad Men' is notoriously secretive with its plotlines, even with exposing them to actors on the show.

— Alison Brie

What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

— Dan Simmons

The things that make you most mad about the world tend to be the things that you hate in yourself.

— Emma Stone

He'd said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad.

— Ann Aguirre

I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.

— David Hockney

I'm generally a fairly shy, withheld person. But when I get onstage, I get a bit mad.

— Jacob Anderson

You know I'm a lady, but when you get me mad, I can be as hardcore as Sabu or Taz!

— Dawn Marie Psaltis