“ Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
- 159
“ The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans. ”
- Philip J. Davis- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman. ”
- Boris Pasternak- Copy
- 667
“ I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman. ”
- Tim Robbins- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression. ”
- Dylan Thomas- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously. ”
- Kerry Thornley- Copy
- 660
“ Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, andanyone going faster than you is a moron. ”
- George Carlin- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful? ”
- E. M. Forster- Copy
- 2.3K
“ I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman. ”
- Claire Danes- Copy
- 2K
“ Once I'm in a good mood I don't need anything to make me enjoy myself. I'm a nutter, naturally, by itself. I can be the life and soul. ”
- Frank Bruno- Copy
- 1.2K
“ I'm thinking of remaking Psycho again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a Punk rocker setting. ”
- Gus Van Sant- Copy
- 29
“ Every time you walk into a room, it's, like, is there a booger hanging out? Is there a wrinkle here, a gray hair there? It makes you psycho. ”
- Mark McGrath- Copy
- 422
“ In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations. ”
- Theodor W. Adorno- Copy
- 210
“ This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else. ”
- Christina Ricci- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap. ”
- Cynthia Ozick- Copy
- 1K
“ It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities. ”
- Marcus Arelius Antoninus- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen. ”
- Steven B. Beach- Copy
- 949
“ The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
- 1.4K
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