M Quotes
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“Madness is witlessness’s.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.”
“Madness lives in me.”
Source: The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within
“Madness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee.”
“Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.”
“Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.”
“Madness of triumph made America the United States of Atrocity.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Madness passed me by, she smiled hi. I nodded.”
“Madness plants mirrors in the desert. I find the means frightening.”
“Madness
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Ask me something else, Sybil," he said. "That's a fine bathing suit you have on. If there's one thing I like, it's a blue bathing suit."
Sybil stared at him, then looked down at her protruding stomach. "This is a yellow," she said. "This is a yellow."
"It is? Come a little closer." Sybil took a step forward. "You're absolutely right. What a fool I am.”
Source: A Perfect Day for Bananafish
“Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment.”
Source: The God of Small Things
“Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what was said, and when.”
Source: Madness: A Bipolar Life
“Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss”
“Madness? THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!”
“Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond them, the land of fancy. For fifty years he had been as they were, silent, hard-working, unimaginative. Then all of a sudden, like a scholar passing his degree, he had gone up into another form.”
Source: Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes
“Madness was only a handicap only if you couldn't control its irrationalities.”
“Madness will push you anywhere it wants. It never tells you where you're going, or why. It tells you it doesn't matter. It persuades you. It dangles something sparkly before you, shimmering like that water patch on the road up ahead. You will drive until you find it, the treasure, the thing you most desire. You will never find it. Madness may mock you so long you will die of the search. Or it will tire of you, turn its back, oblivious as you go flying. The car is beside you, smoking, belly-up, still spinning its wheels.”
Source: Madness: A Bipolar Life
“Madness, and then illumination.”
Source: Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet
“Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.”
“madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom”
Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel
“Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.”
Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
“Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.”
Source: The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
“Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.”
“Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with the name of the noblest of arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art... So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense... madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.”
“Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.”
Source: Tales from the Flat Earth: Night's Daughter
“Madoc makes a snorting sound, then turns to me. 'I am sure that Wren here wouldn't mind taking Lady Nore's castle and lands for herself.'
I shake my head at the absurdity of the statement.
He raises his brows. 'No? Still sitting at the table and waiting for permission to start eating?'
That's an uncomfortably accurate way of describing how I've lived my life.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“Madoc says you will duel for love,' I say.
'Whose?' he asks, frowning.
There is no banquet too abundant for a starving man.
I shake my head.
'It's you I love,' he says. 'I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn't have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.' He walks to the door to the royal chambers as though to end the conversation. 'You probably guessed as much,' he says. 'But just in case you didn't.'
He opens the door to prevent me from responding. Abruptly, we are no longer alone.
...
I can't believe he said that and then just walked out, leaving me reeling. I am going to strangle him.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“Madoc seemed like the sort to roast him over a fire, consume his flesh, and call it love. By then, I had become familiar with love of that kind.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“Madoc was always calm, after all. So calm all the damn time growing up. He didn’t shout or show his anger until he’d had enough. And you never knew exactly when that was going to be. That was the scary part about him.”
Source: Rival
“Madoc would be so proud- his little girl, remembering all her training,' she says. 'Starving off the terrifying possibility of romance.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.”
“Madoka: I want to erase the tears of all those who trusted in hope. I want them to be left with a smile on their faces.”
Source: Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Vol. 3
“Madoka: Won't anyone notice that Mami-san is dead?
Homura: Mami Tomoe's only relatives are distant relations. It will be quite some time before anyone files a missing persons report. When one dies on that side of the wards, not even a body is left behind. She'll wind up forever a "missing person"... That is what happens to magical girls in the end.
Madoka: ...That's too cruel! Mami-san has been fighting all alone for a long time for everyone's sake! For no one to even notice that she's gone... That's just too lonely a fate...
Homura: It is just that kind of contract that gives us the power in the first place. It isn't for anyone else's sake. We fight on for the sake of our own prayer. So for no one to notice... for the world to forget us... That is just something we have to accept.”
Source: Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Vol. 1
“Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.”
“Madonna created a monster that sucks up souls.”
“Madonna has a far profounder vision of sex than do the feminists. She sees both the animality and the artifice. Changing her costume style and hair color virtually every month, Madonna embodies the eternal values of beauty and pleasure. Feminism says, 'No more masks.' Madonna says we are nothing but masks. Through her enormous impact on young women around the world, Madonna is the future of feminism.”
“Madonna has a very unique style and comes up constantly with these great songs.”
“Madonna has an incredible face. A face you would like to look at blown up 50 feet high!”
“Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that”
“Madonna is a "living, breathing cash register."”
“Madonna is a feminist and has been doing more for the cause than all the grumpy feminists, who are giving nothing back by being grumpy.”
“Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her.”
“Madonna is an athlete; she has to be treated like a professional athlete. She doesn't work out for six hours a day, though, like some of the press says. She never works out for more than two hours a day, and then only when she has the time.”
“Madonna is closer to organised prostitution than anything else.”
“Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.”
“Madonna is interesting. She changed music. She definitely did. She gave me an opportunity that no one else would give me, so I am very grateful to her.”
“Madonna is my role model shes such a powerful woman. I love Gwenyth Paltrow, shes an actress I aspire to be like. And, of course, my mom. She drove me from New Jersey to New York every day for commercials so I could get where I am today.”
“Madonna is the most famous woman on the planet and has been for a number of decades.”
“Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Gos on water skis.”
“Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism, which is stuck in an adolescent whining mode. Madonna has taught young women to be fully female and sexual while still exercising control over their lives.”