M Quotes
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“Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him.”
“Madison loathed Hamilton and loved Jefferson above all.”
“Madison sparkled like the words on her oversized chest. There was glitter embedded in her eye shadow, in her lip gloss, in her nail polish, hanging from her ears in shoulder grazing hoops, dangling from her wrists in blingy bracelets. If the lights went out in the hallway, she could light it up like a human disco ball.”
Source: Dorothy Must Die
“Madison Square Garden sounds like crap.”
“Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight.”
“Madison understood that if you want to protect rights from government abuse, you would be wise not to give government the power in the first place that can be used to abuse rights. That is a lesson we have forgotten. As we have asked government to do more and more for us, we have forgotten that a government big enough to give us everything we want will be powerful enough to take everything we have.”
“Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She's a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I'd pull out my iPod and show her different old rock 'n' roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.”
“Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?”
Source: Bitterblue
“Madlen: 'It's a relief to me, Lady Queen, that in your own pain, you take no interest in hurting yourself.' Bitterblue: 'Why would I? Why should I? It's foolish. I would like to kick the people who do it.' Madlen: 'That would, perhaps, be redundant, Lady Queen.”
“Madly is the way I love you. Forever is how long it will be.”
Source: All My Heart
“Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form: not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.”
“Madman drummers, bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat. In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat.”
“Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.”
Source: Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition
“Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.”
“Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.”
“Madmen, criminals, and rapists! Isn’t it fantastic? All the romantic proposals I’ve ever got from anybody. Somebody up there has an extremely dark sense of humour.”
Source: Memory
“Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.”
Source: The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
“Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide.”
“Madness and despair are innocent enough. There are worse things, Flambeau.”
Source: The Sign of the Broken Sword: A Father Brown Mystery
“Madness and genius are two sides to the same coin.”
“Madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.”
“Madness and sanity are judged by majority norms.”
Source: Alien Clay
“Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.”
“Madness breeds madness.”
Source: Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon
“Madness, Brother Masseo, is the salt which prevents good sense from rotting.”
Source: Saint Francis
“Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.”
“Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments.”
Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
“Madness does not always howl. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "Hey, is there room in your head for one more?”
“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.”
“Madness doesn’t get off wearing gloves. It needs to feel skin on skin, smell the blood and shit as it brings itself off.”
Source: Atlas
“Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.”
“Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.”
Source: The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur
“Madness! Exactly! You got it right! Do you know what it means?"
"I see it, I don't need to define it or describe it."
"Let me teach you! Madness is bearing the unbearable until the unbearable becomes the dominator. When you are overcharged with an emotion, Pianist Norina, when it exceeds the limit, you reach that state of mind, which is not only related to the mind, it also controls all the human senses, it becomes an overall state and attitude. They call it obscurity and vagueness when they don't understand something or someone.. By the way, it's rule one in our game.”
Source: Norina Luciano
“Madness exist in the mind.”
“Madness for humanity is true sanity, and sanity through indifference is utter insanity.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“Madness for something is interesting I mean much more interesting.”
“Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.”
Source: Eating people is wrong
“Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.”
Source: The VALIS Trilogy
“Madness has no sense of humour”
Source: The Quickening Maze
“Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with bizarre details and disturbing facts, Andrew Scull's book offers fresh and compelling insights on the way medicine's inability to solve the mystery of madness has both haunted and shaped two thousand years of culture. Required reading for anyone who has ever gone to a shrink!”
“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”
Source: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Facing-pages Translation Into Contemporary English
“Madness in method, that is genius.”
Source: God Emperor of Dune
“Madness in method, that's genius”
Source: God Emperor of Dune
“Madness, in which the values of another age, another art, another morality are called into question but which also reflects - blurred and disturbed, strangely compromised by one another in a common chimera - all the forms, even the most remote, of the human imagination.”
Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
“Madness is a bowl of poison cherries, chew them and die, but you die screaming in agony.”
Source: Insanity: My Mad Life
“Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.”
Source: The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias
“Madness is a kind of mental suicide.”
Source: Skeleton Crew
“Madness is a matter of perspective, little dreamer.”
Source: The Mime Order
“Madness is a prerequisite of being in showbusiness.”
“Madness is a regenerating thing. Like a phoenix, when one strand dies, another burns anew.”
Source: At Faith's End