Quotes by Mad If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad. Alan Moore madifsmatter On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician. Alan Moore midlifemadinteresting The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws. Alan Moore madlawtrying If we can come up with all sorts of imaginative ways in which people die, then I really don't see what the problem is with coming up with imaginative ways in which people can procreate. Alan Moore madcrazypeople I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that. Alan Moore madpeopleyears The central question is, is this guy right? Or is he mad? What do you, the reader, think about this? Which struck me as a properly anarchist solution. I didn't want to tell people what to think, I just wanted to tell people to think and consider some of these admittedly extreme little elements, which nevertheless do recur fairly regularly throughout human history. Alan Moore madpeoplethinking Certainly as actors, and maybe as directors, you've got to hang on to something childlike. You've got to know what play is. I haven't worked with Mike Leigh, but I know him very well and there's something open in his eyes about what's in front of him. And the same is true of Alfonso in a Mexican, mad way. There's an enthusiastic response to something. Neil Jordan, the same, when he gets excited . You just want to know there's a human being in there. Alan Rickman madeyeplay I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy. Alban Berg madspiritualjoy We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal. Albert Camus madfightingthinking In living through this great epoch, it is difficult to reconcile oneself to the fact that one belongs to that mad, degenerate species that boasts of its free will. How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will. In such a place even I should be an ardent patriot! Albert Einstein madwiseislands At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men. Aldous Huxley foolmadmen If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad. Aleister Crowley madatheismreligion People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul. Alejandro Jodorowsky madsoulpeople It’s…it’s easy to have some little bitty website and use a fake name and sit there and…you know…talk bad about Jews all day and enjoy yourselves…uh, you know…getting your kicks ’cause you live in, you know…a…a one room apartment and your mad at life or whatever and wanna blame us…you know. Alex Jones madfakenames If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad. Alex Kapranos madifs I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back. Alexander McQueen frontsmadmind An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action. Alexander Pope madhypocriteatheist The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. Alexander Pope madrunninginsanity The bullet is a mad thing; only the bayonet knows what it is about. Alexander Suvorov madmilitarywar Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight. Alexandre Dumas madimpossiblesaid«1234567891011»
