Top 1200 Mad Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I'm mad enough not to ever need a sports psychologist, because I really believe in myself.

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

Consumerism, what kind of car you have, what kind of house you have in the country and so on, and that is all very incidental when you examine the kind of person he may be. He may be a big bore, and then there is a person who hasn't done a thing in the world and he is a fascinating person.

I'm always producing with the idea that the music is representing one person. That could play a factor in the intimacy of it. I'm always producing for that one person, never for a group of people - especially if it's non-danceable. I'm always thinking that one person's going to listen to this and that person might want to feel a certain way at a certain time. That can be out in space, it can be at the bus stop, it can be laying in bed listening to music. I look at it as if I'm whispering in someone's ear, basically.

I drive past the Mad Men billboard every day and I can't believe I'm on that show.

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also. But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.

I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?

You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.

It's not uncommon to have at least one friend that you used to mess with, and it didn't work out. But still, there's mad love there.

The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.

If you're going to marry someone, maybe you can be mad for a few weeks and it can still work out.

August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.

Everyone’s gone mad, typing to themselves all day long like mindless robots.

My way in for photographing people is really their work. I'm always interested in what people make, and then I photograph the person. Sometimes the person is a disappointment. But that's the risk. It informs me a lot about the character of a person if I know their work first.

The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease.

We released 'Mad World' as a single because we felt the music press would like it.

When you're running and you are there, there's a little person that talks to you and that little person says “Oh, I'm tired”, “My lounge's about to pop”, “I'm so hurt”, “I'm so tired”, “There's no way I can possibly continue”. And you wanna quit. Right? That person, if you learn how to defeat that person when you're running you will learn how to not quit when things get hard in your life.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at you side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.

If you make me mad I'll let you know, but I prefer to do all the talking with my fighting inside the ring.

Feeling mad hostile, wearing Aéropostale, Flowing like Christ when I speaks the gospel.

Then there was the man who declared in court, he wasn't a person. "Excuse me, sir, why haven't you paid your taxes." "Well, as you can clearly see, I am not a person." "Well, you look like a person." "No it's all done with mirrors, trust me!"

I sometimes think that the only person fit to inherit wealth is the person who doesn't need an inheritance - the person who would create his own fortune no matter what his start in life - and have come to view inherited wealth as an affliction.

I have nothing to say to him [Ronald Reagan], because he is mad. He is foolish. He is an Israeli dog.

I am really two people. I am a private person and a political person. Of course, if there is a conflict, the political person comes first.

If there's a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we'll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we're going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother's house that night for dinner.

A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.

I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are stories that depict us in a way that isn't cliched or niche, and that a white person, a Chinese person, an Indian person can watch and relate to. Those are the stories I want to be a part of telling.

I'm a bit crazy, so sometimes I just get these mad ideas that, on paper, aren't even possible.

I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero.

I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.

It makes me mad to see people in government serving themselves at our expense.

I've always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

We people, maybe because we have the greatest wisdom, we are also mad. We destroy the harmony of the world.

I'm just gonna keep doing what I do, and hopefully not make too many people mad.

The way we dress on 'Mad Men' is so associated with old photographs, with people's parents and grandparents.

I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.

Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth.

I would say the producer is the person who is there from the beginning to the end of the project. Either the person who creates, generates, or discovers the project, the person who performs many of the functions that are necessary to getting that project to the point where it is financed and then where it is in production, finished, marketed and released.

This is the first day of my new beginning. From now on I'm going to do things right. I'm going to be a different person, a good person. I'm going to be the kind of person who would be remembered well, not just remembered.

I was delighted with Baku. People said I was completely mad; I was so happy when it all turned out all right.

Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.

Always the rationalization is the same-"Once this situation is remedied, then I will be happy." But it never works that way in reality: The goal is achieved, but the person who reaches it is not the same person who dreamed it. The goal was static, but the person's identity was dynamic.

And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

If you're mad at someone for being excited and inspired by your art then you're doing it wrong.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don't at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

You could arm-wrestle with a T. rex and win, but you shouldn't because it only makes them mad.

Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.

Michael Derrick Hudson is not the first person to slip into the identity of a person of color to give himself some perceived advantage. He can slip back into his life and not walk around in this world as a person of color who endures racism.

Showbusiness is such a mad profession, I find commerce a wonderful outlet for keeping me sane.

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away.

You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent!