Mad Quotes

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.

Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.

I get mad like anybody else does, but being able to laugh about getting mad is very healthy, and my kids know that.

It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Broadcasting for advertisers is still the best game in town, and they know it. Look, I admire a lot of the shows on cable. I think 'Mad Men' is wonderful. I think 'Breaking Bad' is wonderful. But let's remember they're about one-tenth the audience of NCIS.

During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.

People get so stressed and nervous and mad.

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

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.

Did Mad freakin' Max just call me irritating?

I don't know if I ever really get mad in real life.

I let things roll right off me. I don't stay mad long.

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.

I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad.

My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.

I don't have a lot of money. I get some from Mad Men. But I don't think I'm rich.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.

I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.