Quotes by Mad Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. Ambrose Bierce mad sarcastic intellectual Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane. Ambrose Bierce mad crazy odds APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697 Ambrose Bierce yield mad wine When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago. Amy Clampitt mad should-have long Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. Amy Clampitt inspired mad writing I feel very comfortable in my own skin. When someone makes jokes about me being heavy, it makes me mad. It's not true. I'm right where I should be. Amy Schumer mad skins should There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive. It’s almost like we’re mad because we’ve been shocked out of our usual comatose state of being by feeling something for someone, for ourselves, for just a moment. Ana Castillo mad usual feelings I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad. Anacreon mad love If we choose to behave differently, we are considered 'Mad' or 'immature Anamika Mishra behave immature mad The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest notion of what victory would look like, how it would be won, and what it might cost approached standards hitherto achieved only by slightly mad German warlords. Andrew Bacevich mad victory war I'm glad nobody has asked me to adapt 'Wuthering Heights' because I think I would make a mess of it. Everybody makes a mess of it. I think the Bronte Sisters are mad. Andrew Davies height mad thinking Along with supernature and science, there is one other major source of horror movies disorder: the human psyche, most commonly homicidal psychosis. Unlike 'mad' scientists, horror-movies madmen are not visionary obsessives, glorifying in scientific reason as they single-mindedly purse their researches. They are, rather, victims of overpowering impulses that well up from within; monsters brought forth by the sleep of reason, not by its attractions. Andrew Tudor psychosis mad sleep I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad. Andrew Wyeth mad color love If somehow I can, before I leave this earth, combine my absolutely mad freedom and excitement with truth, then I will have done something. Andrew Wyeth mad done earth I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart. Andrew Young mad smart way There's nothing I don't love about 'Mad Men.' Andy Cohen mad-men mad men All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away from the phenomenally close-knit creative community. Yet, in the world of the artists, the consciously eccentric are always respectful and admiring if those who have the courage to be genuinely a little mad. Angela Carter mad artist self I have loved, cried, been mad with happiness. I have won and I have lost. Anita Ekberg cried mad lost He'd said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad. Ann Aguirre glowing orange mad Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what. Ann Brashares mad love-you people «1234567891011»