I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.
If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!
I hate that when people are like, "Well, all dwarves know each other, right?" And you want to get mad, but you can't because we do.
Human evolution has two steps - from being somebody to being nobody; and from being nobody to being everybody. This knowledge can bring sharing and caring throughout the world.
It isn't the experience of today that drives men mad. It is the remorse for something that happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow may disclose.
in mad people fear goes on constantly, night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in.
I always think about my lifestyle when designing, so that's being a mother, being a career woman, being a wife, and being a woman who loves to entertain.
I always wanted to find a way to apply my acting in a big mad monster movie where I was transforming into this scary entity.
I could spit dust I'm so mad. He wants to put violins on my new session. I'll die before I'll go all the way pop.
I used to bottle up all of my emotions and never say anything. Even if something really made me mad, I'd be quiet.
He broke the kiss and leaned against her, breathing hard. "Good morning to you, too. Man, I just can't stay mad when you do that.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.
You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.
At twelve noon, The natives swoon And no further work is doneBut mad dogs and Englishmen, Go out in the midday sun.
I'd love to be a mad scientist who plays around with chemistry, and solves all the world's problems and creates a few of them himself.
Girls are always getting mad at each other and they tell their hairdresser to purposely mess up another girl's hair.
It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.
Einstein pronounced the doom of continuous or 'rational' space, and the way was made clear for Picasso and the Marx Brothers and Mad magazine.
All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy.
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
'Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.
I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.
If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.
I have been making films for 25 years now and I am not mad to invest in something from where recovery becomes an issue.
By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.
Hit the club, and I'm mad cause they wont let us in.
Now I'm about to go bad like drunk mexicans.
Lawyers are like professional wrestlers. They pretend to get mad and fight, but then they socialize after a trial is over.
A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.
With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.
You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.
We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective, and from being internal to external.
What kind of tyrant punishes everyone just to get back at the few he's mad at? I mean, besides Chris Christie.
If somehow I can, before I leave this earth, combine my absolutely mad freedom and excitement with truth, then I will have done something.
A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.
I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing.
My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
Too many songs, weak rhymes that's mad long.
Make it brief son: half short, twice strong!
I actually had the good fortune to work with Nick Hoult on Mad Max in Africa, so we became really fast friends.
Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.
I don't believe in getting mad if a guy misses a block and I get hit. I don't yell at the players. Everybody gets beat sometime.
When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
I don't understand why people are going mad about the lyrics I write? Do they expect everyone to become Mirza Ghalib?
Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy.
For me, being a complete artist means not necessarily just being in front of the camera, but being behind the camera or being the originator or creator of something.
A film is like a mad arranged marriage, with all these people who don't necessarily want to be with each other forced into this intimate, exhausting process.
There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.
It's important that nobody gets mad at you for screwing up. We know screwups are an essential part of making something good.
Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
I'm not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.
Being back home is a great thing for me, being with my family, being with friends, being with people that have got your back no matter what.
We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective and from being internal to external.
But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
Nothing makes the minority leader more mad than when his side is forced to play by its own rules.
The Italian duo Dumbo Gets Mad specializes in psychedelics for the sober, bringing experimentation together with detailed pop songwriting.
People get recruited from sketch groups and put on 'Mad TV' and 'SNL,' but those aren't ensembles, they're all-star teams.
There were things that would irritate Casey, but trying too hard or getting mad at sitting on the bench weren't among them.
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