“I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply or you'd go mad.” BookCertainEnergyTakenPrideMadTime And Energy Author:Catherine Mayer
“When Henry Hill [in Goodfellas] got arrested for the first time and Robert DeNiro met him at the courthouse and Henry Hill was really upset, 'cause he thought Robert DeNiro would be really mad at him. And DeNiro comes up to him and he gives him a $100 and he goes, "You got pinched. We all get pinched, but you did it right, you didn't say nothing."” GivingFirstsWould BeCausesMetsFirst TimeMadCome UpHillsUpsetArrestedCourthousesMad At Him Author:Jon Stewart
“When I was younger, my mother and I, we'd have these crazy, crazy fights. Everyone would storm out mad, and the only way that I'd be able to express myself was to write her. We would write letters back and forth for days. When I'm writing, I feel uninterrupted. I write what I'm going through and how I see it.” WayFeelsWritingAbleMotherFightingCrazyLettersMadStormBack And Forth Author:Alicia Keys
“The body is just a water bubble. The mind is like a mad monkey. Do not follow either the body or the mind. Follow the Conscience. It is above the mind. It is permanent. It is the voice of God, the voice of unchanging truth inside you.” MindBodyVoiceWaterConscienceMadPermanentBubblesMonkeysUnchangingVoice Of God Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“Think, "I am beyond the body. This body is just a water bubble. I am beyond the mind. This mind is just a mad monkey. I am the Atma. I and God are one. Before this body was formed I was there. After this body leaves I am there. Without this body I am still there. I am omnipresent. I am all." To reach this truth you have to do some spiritual practice. You have to inquire, "What is God? Who is God? Who am I?" Jesus spent twelve years in the desert; then he realized. You must also do some Sadhana.” ThinkingYearsMindStillsBodyJesusWaterPracticeMadDesertBubblesTwelveMonkeys Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“Being in charge sometimes means making people mad. Some days you have to overrule even the best advice, because you think it is not right.” PeopleThinkingMeanSometimesAdviceMadBest Advice Author:Colin Powell
“I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.” MadeAmericaHousePresidentWalksKingsMadCoffeeCupsQueensHotelPalacesCoffee CupKings And Queens Author:Josephine Baker
“I forgave Jock Semple his action on Boston race just around the time I got to Heartbreak Hill. I had 24 miles to go and you cannot run 24 miles and stay angry. That's the truth. When we go out and we're mad at our boss or mad at the world, when we run, we get it out of our system.” WorldRunningActionRaceAngryMadMilesHillsBossBostonJocksMiles To Go Author:Kathrine Switzer
“I was always a mad scientist type - an inventor and just a generally inventive person, and that has remained the same. But one thing that *has* changed is that I've always been aggressively pro-business, with the mentality that whoever pays me, gets me - but now, I'd rather be broke than contribute to destroying the world my son is inheriting - both the social fabric, and obviously the environmental.” WorldPersonsSocialPayOne ThingChangedSonTypeScientistMadEnvironmentalBrokeMy SonDestroyingMentalityFabricInventorMad Scientist Author:Sam Lamott
“I live in a world that's free, colorful, vibrant, takes chances, bold, stands up to power, umm, and that's where I've mad my success.” WorldChanceMadTake A ChanceColorful Author:Matt Drudge
“It's an absurdity to just wish for a world of chaos without anything viable in its place. I'm loyal to my culture, my creed, the human race and my people and I don't want to see them all end up in a Mad Max movie.” PeopleWorldWantHumansEndsCultureWishRaceMadChaosHuman RaceLoyalCreedsAbsurdityMaxMad Max Author:John Lydon
“When I started criticizing Donald Trump when he got more popular on the right, one of the most things that I discovered was how many people were mad at me for not living down to their expectations. There are a lot of pundits on the right who think their job is to be a cheerleader for their team. That is not my job. My job is to tell the truth as I see it, and that is gotten a lot of people angry.” PeopleThinkingJobsTeamTrumpExpectationsAngryMadTelling The TruthCriticizeCheerleaderPundits Author:Jonah Goldberg
“Growing up on Mad Men with so many incredible actors and then going on to other things with amazing people, I never had any formal acting training, but they are all acting schools, basically. Just watching and learning from the best is insane. It's like having an internship and watching all these amazing people doing their work. You just soak it up like a sponge, hopefully.” PeopleMenSchoolActorsActingGrowing UpGrowingTrainingMadIncrediblesInsaneHopefullyFormalSpongesMad MenAmazing PeopleInternships Author:Kiernan Shipka
“I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't get published by real publishers at this point, or have to go through two years of trying after writing a novel that's taken them five or six years and simply can't get the thing in print. Or it gets in print and it doesn't get reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and disappears without a trace. I mean, it's terrifying. I don't know how anybody can stand it. It's such an enormous amount of work and the economics of it are really quite brutal.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantWritingTryingYearsMeanTwoBookRealNamesNovelKnow HowTakenFiveNew YorkAmountSixEconomicsMadDisappearSignificantEnormousNovelistsTwo YearsPrintReviewsBrutalPublishersNew York TimesBook ReviewWithout A Trace Author:Tony Kushner
“Spiritual models for me are the communities of Tibetans living in exile in India, or the banjars of Bali, which exist in times of difficulty, oppression. Alternative spaces-perhaps this kind of communication can take place over the Net? Probably only up to a point as the Net's controlled by the military. But the idea is to live outside multi-national, monocultural, commodification prison, outside the grey areas of power-mad, monied collusion.” KindIdeasSpiritualCommunitySpaceMilitaryCommunicationModelsAreasIndiaDifficultyMadPrisonOppressionAlternativesControlledGreyExileTibetanBaliCommodificationCollusionGrey Areas Author:Anne Waldman
“I often say that I'm a Buddhist-Episcopalian. I say that partly to annoy people.I like to annoy people who think that a religion can contain the whole truth. No religion, it seems to me, contains the whole truth. I think it's mad to think that there is nothing to learn from other traditions and civilizations. If you accept that other religions have something to offer and you learn from them, that is what you become: a Buddhist-Episcopalian or a Hindu-Muslim or whatever.” PeopleIfsThinkingWholeSeemsAcceptingCivilizationOffersTraditionMadBuddhistAnnoyingWhole TruthEpiscopalians Author:Ninian Smart
“I love The End of the Batman story. I have my original copy, the hardcover, at my house from when I was a kid, whenever that was,'88 or '89. It was very influential to me because it was so explicit in touching on the notion that Batman might be mad and that he might belong in the mad house.” EndsStoriesMightKidsHouseOriginalsMadNotionCopiesTouchingInfluentialExplicit Author:Scott Snyder
“With gymnastics, I know I was making some people in that world mad because they thought that I wasn't focused on gymnastics. They were like, 'Ugh, she won't get off social media, she's always tweeting.' They wanted me to be America's sweetheart. And I think I've never fit into that cookie cutter person.” PeopleThinkingWorldFitMadSocial MediaFocusedGymnasticsSweetheart Author:McKayla Maroney
“I've had people say, "You know, this 'Hope and Change' business, Rush, it's just as dangerous as, 'Make America Great Again,' all the specifics." And what you're really saying - even though you didn't voice this - is Barack Obama ended up being an authoritarian. He ended up being supported as an authoritarian because his wacko base wanted that stuff done - i.e., they wanted conservatives humiliated and defeated and ticked off and mad and losing everything, and they didn't care how Obama did.” PeopleDoneCareDangerousLosingMadBarackDefeatedHumiliated Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Business, like life, is funny. We all go through difficult times, and we all have to face curve balls and challenges, each and every week. And we need to laugh when things are funny. If we take it all too seriously we will go mad.” DifficultChallengesLaughingWeekMadDifficult Times Author:Ronnie Apteker
“I think that knowing where you're going is important, and it's not like, when Robert says that, it's not like we know what every episode of the next five, four, five, six seasons of the show is going to be. I think Matt Weiner knew how Mad Men was going to end. Vince Gilligan knew how Breaking Bad was going to end. Marc Cherry knew how Desperate Housewives was going to end. Along the way, the process of crafting those stories ... You don't know what the road, what twists and turns that road is going to take to ultimately get you there.” ThinkingMenImportantMadDesperateHousewifeMad Men Author:Chris Black
“I don't experience much loneliness, oddly. Sometimes I have thought I was lonely and it turned out I was in reality wanting a snack, just like sometimes I have thought I was mad and it turned out I was actually wearing too many sweaters. I've always been very content in the company of my own thoughts, and I prefer to spend much of my time alone. But I do like conversation - for the exercise, for the spark, for the let's-see-where-it-takes-us, for being able to dip into communal creativity when you're tired of your own air.” SometimesRealityCreativityLonelinessExerciseLonelyMadTiredMe Alone Author:Patricia Lockwood
“Technology enables consumers and investors to have extraordinary choice and ease of switching, which, in turn, stimulates much fiercer competition than ever before, which, in turn, makes it imperative for every institution to innovate like mad. That innovation is powering our economy these days, and it requires companies to find and utilize creative workers. That's the most important syllogism going; technology is embedded in that syllogism, but it's not as if we're seeing these productivity gains because of the technology.” ImportantChoicesTechnologyEconomyCreativeInnovationMadCompetitionExtraordinaryProductivityInvestorsEmbeddedCreative Work Author:Robert Reich
“When I'm talking to an artist, I'm not being malicious when I tell them their music is wack. These are artists with mad money and fame so why should they care about my critique?” CareArtistFameMusic IsMadCritiqueMaliciousMoney And Fame Author:Charlamagne Tha God
“If you can say something to people that's maybe a little bit insulting, but they're kind of giggling as they are hearing it, if you say something to their face without them getting mad at you, I think that's the right balance. You don't want to make it uncomfortable, especially for the viewer or the people around either. Sometimes that happens. You're watching and you're like, 'Uh, this is awkward. I don't want to look!' But, if everybody's enjoying it, I think that works.” PeopleThinkingKindSometimesEnjoyBalanceMadUncomfortableAwkwardInsulting Author:Mark Critch
“When we follow the reversal of normal experience, we find ourselves in an unusual, nearly mad experience. Being in an almost mad experience is not something we should fear: only in such experience are we jarred out of our common sense opinions and beliefs. It opens our minds to other ideas and thought. It makes us think.” ThinkingMindBeliefCommonOpinionMadCommon SenseUnusual Author:Leonard Lawlor
“Donald Trump has brought into his cabinet James "Mad Dog" Mattis, who is Secretary of Defense. A "mad dog" is a dangerous creature. And to think of sending such a man with such a reputation into Chicago after he, President Trump, has said to our mayor and the police department: "You all better get this violence thing straight or we'll have to help you do it." They're intending to come and search homes for weapons and kill those who would advance opposition, a slaughter.” ThinkingMenHelpingHomePresidentViolenceDogDangerousPoliceMadReputationSecretary Author:Louis Farrakhan
“If an actor commits properly to a role, they do a bit mad during a shoot. If they're going to do that, they should balance themselves by doing a role as a yoga teacher.” TeacherBalanceYogaMadCommit Author:Ben Wheatley
“It's fantastic to believe, because they get so many benefits. I get mad at the atheist community when they put down believers because they put down religion so much. Now I am an atheist, but I don't like to describe myself with that term. I prefer secular humanist. But I do see first hand how beneficial religion is, for example if you are a refugee getting in a boat to take you across the Mediterranean, a belief in God is an advantage. I completely understand that comfort.” BelieveBeliefTermCommunityComfortMadAtheistBelieverBoatFantasticHumanistSecularRefugeeBelief In God Author:Julia Sweeney
“My question is, if you think this stuff is fake news, why watch it? There's no value in it. Unless you're entertained by it and you have boundaries and the stuff's not gonna affect your mood, fine and dandy. But if it's gonna frustrate you, make you mad, you're not missing anything turning it off.” ThinkingValuesMissingMadMoodBoundariesFake Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I don't get mad with people, like, 'Oh, but that's not what the song was about...' It's also nice to know that people are mindlessly dancing to a song about the US Government's stance on same-sex marriages... especially straight jocks. I love that idea. I think that's the beauty of music - it's different for everybody.” PeopleThinkingDifferentSongNiceMadDancing Author:Beth Ditto
“James Comey is gonna single-handedly get Donald Trump impeached. They can't wait. They're all beside themselves. They've got more leaks. Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus left Saudi Arabia, came back to the United States. The media says that's because they did something to make Trump mad, they're soon to be fired, both laid off, it's gotta happen, too much chaos. The administration says no, they were scheduled to come back after the big meetings that were in Riyadh, nothing to see here.” WaitingMadMeetingsChaos Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When somebody comes up with a progressive idea, to begin with, you're mad, bonkers. Then if you go on, you're dangerous. Then there's a pause. Then you can't find anyone who can say they thought of it in the first place. That's how progress is made. This is why I do believe in the vote. In the end, all these people who've been tempted to the right realise the warning lights in their constituency are brighter than the bright lights from No. 10 offering them things.” PeopleBelieveProgressDangerousVoteMadProgressiveRealising Author:Tony Benn
“They are self-loathing people, these leftists. I can't imagine what it would be like to get up and live their life every day. To have to be mad all the time, at everybody else, knowing full well you are a failure and having the inability to do anything about it because you will not look at yourself. You gotta blame George W. Bush or you gotta blame corporations, or you have to blame somebody. Blame talk radio.” PeopleImagineBlameMadLook At Yourself Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I remember a prominent conservative media figure, talking to him about prominent liberal media figures that he knew, that he liked. And I questioned him. "How can you trust these people? I mean, these are..." "No, no! They're good guys. In fact, one of them likes you, says you're not a hater." And I was supposed to be thrilled to hear this!I was supposed to be mollified that some liberal media figure had just pronounced I was okay because, after he had listened to me, he had determined I wasn't a hater. I did not take that as a compliment, and I got kind of mad.” PeopleKindMeanRememberGuyOkayMadConservativeDeterminedComplimentGood Guy Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I had been reading a lot of pilots. It was pilot season and I had decided, in my mind, that I wanted to do another show, but the bar had already been set so high, having working on Mad Men and Community, that I was really particular. I was looking for something really specific, but I didn't even know exactly what that was. When I read 'Glow', it just checked every box.” MenMindReadingCommunityMadMad Men Author:Alison Brie
“Sometimes politics is viewed as a boxing match. So, let's look at movies of last year. You know, you prepare for match like creed. Trump is like "Mad Max: Fury Road." We have never seen anything like this in politics. The kind of race he's going to run. I mean, look, he is winning the nomination. He doesn't prepare for debates. He doesn't run advertising. He gets millions of dollars spent against him, it has no effect, he's not running as sophisticated data driven campaign yet he is winning. As each and every day, you just don't know what you're going to get with this guy.” KindMeanSometimesRunningGuyWinningMadDrivenDebateAdvertisingBoxingSophisticatedFury Author:David Plouffe
“"Mad" magazine is like one of my few formative experiences, absolutely. "Mad" magazine teaches a whole generation of people to be irreverent toward power.” PeopleTeachMadIrreverent Author:Daniel H. Pink
“I was interested in all kinds of things, whether it be Avatar, Mad Men, Troy, 300, Battlestar Gallactica, or the poems of Horace and Sappho. I always joke about this to my students, who can't quite wrap their mind around the fact that you can have a Ph.D in classics, but not do that full time. I never wanted to write anything with footnotes for the rest of my life. I always think of what I do as the kind of conversation you'd have with somebody, like a good friend, when you've gone and seen a movie together, and you come home and you start talking about it.” ThinkingMenWritingMindKindHomeTogetherStudentsJokesMadAll KindsComing HomeGood FriendMad Men Author:Daniel Mendelsohn
“Maybe the actors that used to turn down William Goldman's scripts - where he wanted them to stretch and grow, and he was mad at 'em, and said, "Why won't they be a real actor?" - maybe they just knew their audience. It's too bad.” RealAudienceMad Author:Beth Grant
“I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.” WantMeanWholeNightHouseEnergySleepDealsLetting GoAngryMadForgivingWhole LifeUlcersLearn To Forgive Author:Rodney King
“The bipartisan approach filtered up through my typewriter. I used to say, "Mad takes on both sides." We even used to rake the hippies over the coals. They were protesting the Vietnam War, but we took aspects of their culture and had fun with it. Mad was wide open. Bill loved it, and he was a capitalist Republican. I loved it, and I was a liberal Democrat. That went for the writers, too; they all had their own political leanings, and everybody had a voice. But the voices were mostly critical. It was social commentary, after all.” WarPoliticalCultureFunRepublicanMadDemocratCapitalistHippieVietnam WarHad Fun Author:Al Feldstein
“The Postal is a ruthless, Mad TV-type thing. We sent out a DVD to the South Park producers, and they liked the movie so much that we can say now, "It's like South Park with real actors" on the trailers and posters.” RealMadProducersPosters Author:Uwe Boll
“There's art on the show that's really bad - these cliché Abstract Expressionist gestural things. It's almost like extensions of my performance, because in the scene I'm really mad.” ArtSceneMadAbstract Author:James Franco
“It's a beautiful idea to focus on how everything is temporary and always in flux. It may feel bad now, but it will feel good later, and vice versa. To write about those things brings this satisfying feeling as a creative person. There's a lot of music out there that's like, "I'm so mad! I'm sad! I'm into skulls and crossbones and the color black," and that's just meaningless and shallow. So much of metal is about that and it's hard to find metal that is substantial and meaningful in terms of its content.” WritingFeelingsBeautifulBlackTermCreativeFocusMadMeaningfulFeel GoodTemporaryMeaninglessMetalsShallowFind Me Author:Phil Elvrum
“When we get to A League Of Their Own, I have to be Geena Davis' little sister who wants to be like her and wants everything that she has and is jealous and upset and mad. Well, that was easy. I mean, she has an Academy Award. I think I can be upset about that. She's 99 feet tall and she's drop-dead gorgeous and she's all feminine and pretty. I had to pretend I couldn't run as fast as her. That was hard.” ThinkingMeanRunningEasyMadLeagueUpsetFeminineJealousGorgeousAcademy AwardsLittle Sister Author:Lori Petty
“I still recognized for television. Buffy is 70 percent, Gilmore Girls is 30 percent, and then Mad Men. If it's a mother/daughter, it's definitely Gilmore Girls. They usually say, "We always watch it together, and we feel like we're the Gilmore girls." I've heard that like, 5,000 times.” MenTogetherMotherGirlDaughterMadMother DaughterMad Men Author:Danny Strong
“I mean, in the editing room, you sit there, and you're so happy about a lot of it. You've got these great actors, and the DP's great, and you love it... And then there's so much you're mad about. Cause you've made so many mistakes. So yeah, there're scenarios where you're like, "Ah, I wish I could change this. How do I make this better?" "No matter what I do, the scene's not working, what do I do?"” MeanWishMistakeMad Author:Chris Messina
“It's a tricky one when you're playing somebody who is mad. There's often the big actor's question, if you're playing a part like that: do you take it to be an internalized thing, pull the audience in, or do you go full-out, and kind of present it as quite a shocking thing?” KindAudienceMadTricky Author:Keira Knightley