Quotes of: Being-mad Keyword

Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.'

Douglas Coupland

I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad.

Gloria Steinem

But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

William Booth

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

Ben Affleck

I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.

Carol Leifer

At one point in my 20s, I was about to quit acting. I'd had a crappy couple of years and I was depressed. My mom said, 'Don't give up! You'll be so mad at yourself.'

Janel Moloney

Mad Hatter: Mustard! Yes, mu- MUSTARD? Don't let's be silly! Lemon, that's different...

Alice in Wonderland

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Umberto Eco

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

Alain de Botton

Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.

Anne Carson

All this dread order break- for whom? for thee? Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety!

Alexander Pope

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

Anne Rice

Foolishness is doing ignorantly something forbidden repeatedly by sages since ages, and Madness is doing the very same prohibited thing repeatedly but intentionally.

Anuj Somany

Have I gone mad?" "I'm afraid so. You're terrible BONKERS. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.

Alice and Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland

Intoxicated With the madness I'm in love with My sadness Bullshit beggars, enchanted kingdom Fashion victims through their charcoaled teeth

Billy Corgan

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Salvador Dali

To live in darkness is to surrender to madness, to hide behind light is to ignore the blight, walk the road between and your worries will go unseen.

Life

I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.

Vincent Van Gogh

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Jefferson Davis

Is being single hard? It depends where your mind is. If you are focused, being single is an enjoyable experience, but if you hate being alone, you'll hate being single. I think it depends on the individual are where they are in life.

Lauren London

Being popular or not, having company or being alone, are not issues of concern for the developed soul.

The Love of Being Loving