Top 1200 Genius And Madness Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.

Love is horrible. I mean, when you're in love, it's like a sickness. Such madness.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness.

'Dance India Dance' is family to me. I actually miss the madness whenever the season is not on air.

The economic sanctions against Russia are madness, directed against a neighboring and friendly market.

I don't keep a record of the parts I've played, and I don't compare characters, but maybe I should? I could construct a graphic that grades badness and madness levels? Interesting idea.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.

My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.

To seek trouble - this is not courage, this is madness. Courage is the willingness of man to sensibly face the troubles he cannot avoid.

Greatness and madness are next door neighbours; and they borrow each other's sugar. You don't get there without the other.

The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.

Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

By moving to London I removed myself from the madness of the entertainment industry. I love the city and the culture, and it was an opportunity to bring my children up in a more sane environment.

Ram Sampath is a genius.

The woman is the reflection of her man. If you love her to the point of madness, she will become it

There's a method to the madness in filmmaking, where everything's very specifically laid out, the shots and what they need - but there also can be a freedom to allowing the actors to find genuine moments.

Hitler is a prodigious genius.

Dance India Dance is family to me. I actually miss the madness whenever the season is not on air.

If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness Maybe not, oh, but we can only try.

Our example - and commitment - to freedom has changed the world. But along with the genius of our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, and our Bill of Rights, is the equal genius of our economic system. Our Founding Fathers endeavored to create a moral and just society like no other in history, and out of that grew a moral and just economic system the likes of which the world had never seen. Our freedom, what it means to be an American, has been defined and sustained by the liberating power of the free enterprise system.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

In the case of pilots, it is a little touch of madness that drive us to go beyond all known bounds. Any search into the unknown is an incomparable exploitation of oneself.

When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System.

Everyone dreams of playing March Madness and playing in those tournaments, big-time games.

Genius is full of trash.

I’ll play Pretty Pretty Princess with you if you just let me watch a little bit of March Madness.

Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.

Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life.

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with rehearsals and the shoot.

A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene-- This whole experiment in green, As if it were his own!

The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.

In Mumbai and Chennai there is method in the madness. Despite its large crowds there is a 'live and let live' spirit and a connection with good.

Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.

As we have seen so clearly demonstrated in Europe, hate breeds hate and the vicious circle revolves with all its attending madness.

Genius is perseverance in disguise.

On a street of right and wrong in every inch of sadness, rocks and tanks go hand in hand with madness.

There is no top. You are never going to reach the top if you go for success. That way lies madness.

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.

You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it, heart sinking. Madness is a rotten guest.

Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.

For it is the working people who have their hands on the machinery. And only by stopping the machinery of destruction can we ever hope to stop this madness.

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

March Madness gave me both a lasting confidence and a lifelong bond with both my teammates and opponents.

He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

Backstage at the Victoria's Secret show is pure madness. Big personalities, big hair, and tons of press.

That is the meaning of the Trump brand - being the boss who is so rich and so powerful he can do whatever he wants. So the way in which he ran for president was to embody that idea as fully as he possibly could with his outrageousness. I don't think he actually thought he would win. I think the original idea was purely a marketing idea. It seemed a no-lose situation, because he would get so much free publicity. And this has always been his genius - I shouldn't use the word "genius" when talking about Trump - but he's always understood the value of free publicity.

I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings.