Quotes About Madman

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

It's ridiculous going around looking for Griqua history and traditions when you know that they're just ordinary coloured people like everyone else, just ordinary gullible people who fell for the nonsense of that madman Le Fleur. Ugh, Sally snorts, the things that pass

Perhaps Germany will serve as a warning," said Arvid. "May they learn from us to snuff out fascism in America when the first sparks arise and not delay until democracy goes up in flames all around them." "This could never happen in America. A nation that elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt would never elect a madman populist.

People call me crazy and a madman. Even 'Tasmanian Devil.' I'd rather be called the 'Tasmanian Angel.'

When we were in school, we were told that Stalin was a madman who got control of Europe, which teaches you nothing.

You can plan around a ruthless man, but a madman throws all your plans to the wind.

To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.

You took advantage of a madman's ravings to strengthen your own authority.

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.

The idea that the Allies were up against a lunatic was even more terrifying than the prospect of battling a rational, though supremely evil, foe. At least you could try to outsmart a rational man; you could guess his next move and try to counteract it. A madman, on the other hand, couldn't be relied upon to act in even his own best interest. "As

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

Wherever a choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. For the madman appeals to what is fundamental, to passion and the instincts; the philosophers to what is superficial and supererogatory - reason.

To use the intelligence in any other than the habitual way is not to use the intelligence; it is to be irrational, to rave like a madman.

He was a thread of gold running straight into the woof of a carpet woven by a madman.

Moshe was a tall Israeli with an ear-splitting laugh. He used it in the same way as a madman uses a gun, spraying it around with bewildering randomness. Hearing the laugh made me blink instinctively, like hearing a hammer pound on brick or metal. Our conversation was impeded by having to watch him through the strobe effect of my convulsing eyes.

There is a madman who lives on the road to Mkushi. Every full moon he comes out onto the tarmac and digs a deep trench across the road. Dad would like to find the madman and bring him back to the farm. 'Think what a strong bugger he is, eh?' 'Yes, but you could only get him to work when there was a full moon.' 'Which is twice as hard as any other Zambian.

With these words there came the rending scream of a shattered stirk and an angry troubling of the branches as the poor madman percolated through the sieve of a sharp yew, a wailing black meteor hurtling through green clouds, a human prickles.

Nicolas Cage, I would love to work with him again. He's just a fearless madman. He'll go anywhere you want to go. He would not say 'no' to anything.

The page answered disgustedly, "A madman, I suppose." After a short pause, the maid's voice floated back faintly, "Well, he'll fit right in here, then, won't he…

They say that, for a madman, every day is a holiday, but they also say that insanity has seventy gates.

was calling for us like a madman. When we reached him he was dripping with perspiration, and trembling like a startled horse. We had great difficulty in soothing him. He complained that he was in civilian kit, and wanted to tear my clothes off his body. I ordered him to strip, and we made a second exchange as quickly as possible.

Really, monsieur, I should regard you as a coward, and a traitor too, if I did not, with greater justice, regard you as a madman.

I know that I have been a fool, a madman, to believe that the snow could have been animated, that the marble could grow warm; but what would you expect? The lover easily believes in love, nor has my journey been entirely in vain, since I behold you now.

The madman bum and angel beat in time with the absolute heart of the poem butchered out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand years