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Quotes About Mad

I helped with customers who raced through the front door in a mad search for the perfect gift. One that looked as if they'd put hours of thought into their choice. And yes, you're right. They were mostly men." -- Abby Shaw, Sucker Punched
~ Sammi Carter
What you have to understand about the Guccis," Jenny told a journalist in 1994, "is that they are all completely mad, incredibly manipulative, and not very clever. They have to be in control, but as soon as they get what they want, they crush it! They are destroyers, it's as simple as that!
~ Sara Gay Forden
Well, I guess we're off, like a herd of mad turtles as my dad used to say.
~ Margaret Weis
Maybe it was a consequence of reaching the end of the end, finding out the dark, mad, gleaming tale had concluded the only way it could in the real world--with mortal people doing mortal things, a father and daughter, facing their deaths.
~ Marisha Pessl
Mad as a fucking hatter. Jesus
~ Mark Haddon
Mind over matter doesn't matter if you're the Mad Hatter with a weak bladder who steals money from his friends and still has to sell all his soggy Depends on eBay anyway, esé!
~ Mark Leyner
Don't be afraid now. They're still in the next neighbourhood. I was in the outhouse when the alarm came." "When the alarm came" meant people leaping over fences in a mad dash to escape the police.
~ Mark Mathabane
Britons have but to read, to obey, and be blessed. None but the fools doubt the wisdom of The Jupiter; none but the mad dispute its facts.
~ Anthony Trollope
And do you know what the Americans and the Russians make their atoms with? They make them with the microbes of god. - You are raving, Mr Artaud. You are mad. - I am not raving. I am not mad. I'm telling you that microbes have been reinvented in order to impose a new idea of god.
~ Antonin Artaud
I live a mad, abandoned life, draped in a shawl and going from garret to garret.
~ Shirley Jackson
The bear is stabbed on its side and a ten-inch needle or tube is inserted into the gall bladder, and then usually just left there with a pump attached. The bile contains an acid used in traditional medicine to . . . well, who cares what it's used for. It's completely mad and completely obscene.
~ Simon Reeve
Just because he lives in Harpenden and thinks anyone who doesn't live in lovely leafy suburbia is mad.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Creon: Why not? You and the whole breed of seers are mad for money. Tiresias: And the whole race of tyrants lusts for filthy gain.
~ Sophocles
I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child.
~ Walter Mosley
IDENTITY CLUE 9: "THEY ARE MAD UPON THEIR IDOLS" "…for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols" (Jeremiah 50:38b) What is America's currently most watched television program?
~ John Price
I say, thou mad March hare.
~ John Skelton
No, he is not mad. He is very bad. I am certain he is totally healthy. He has a very peculiar personality. Not that of a KGB officer. He's different, sadistic, not thinking about other people, not even the Russian people, only himself. He has these predecessors like Hitler and Stalin. We can say they did bad things but that they didn't do them because a voice told them to do it. They were evildoers. They were sadistic people. But they weren't insane.
~ John Sweeney
I don't see why" said the Wing Commander. "The very best of families have mad daughters. It never diminishes their importance. Rather increases it.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
Verity: The Puss Moth's lovely engine (this is Maddie talking; she is a bit mad) had only HALF THE POWER of Maddie's motorbike. They were cleaning the bits of turf out of it with wirebrushes.
~ Elizabeth Wein
This deranged jungle of ironies coinhabits my skull like feathers and fireworks. My heart fills with stones. I am the mad aunt who laughs her head off at the funeral. There rises in me the most inappropriate hysteria in this most somber of places.
~ Ellen Meloy
mad, that's what's the matter with him," Curtis added in disgust. "Let's get out." He turned to go—then, halted—and stood still. He appeared to be listening. "What's up with you?" Hamar asked. "Both you
~ Elliott O'Donnell
was eleven years later, my life had changed beyond recognition, and yet here I was, still desperately trying to act normal, while the world around me appeared to have gone completely mad.
~ Elton John
The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always -- take any form -- drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!
~ Emily Bronte
The feelings of the men who had raised Urban over their own heads probably cannot be adequately described. Some thought that the delirium of power had made the Pope furiosus et melaneholicus—in short, mad.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman