To seek trouble – this is not courage, this is madness. Courage is the willingness of man to sensibly face the troubles he cannot avoid.
You want fans to connect to the book, even movie fans. But if your sole purpose is to write towards a certain kind of fan, that way leads madness.
I like ‘nerves’! I like the word ‘migraineur’. I like the word ‘madness’. These are OK words. The 19th century had a very handy term: ‘neurasthenic’. I think that’s a very useful word. We all know what that means: it means extra-sensitive.
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
It’s a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
I have been training under Melvin Louis and Dimple Kotecha. They’re very different people and their styles and training procedures are also different. Melvin is more into the improvised version, he mixes hip-hop, street style, Bollywood etc. He is more into the madness and gives me the freedom to try my own thing.
I understand the insecurities that come with being a part of showbiz. You need not just talent but a little bit of madness to be on top of the game.
I really wanted to do a deep-dive into the idea that women are always called ‘crazy,’ and we are painted with such broad strokes because it’s so easy to stereotype women and write them off. I got tired of that, and I wanted to explain: We are not crazy. There’s a method to our madness.
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else.
Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.
There’s nothing more that I enjoy doing as much as touring. It’s basically being able to connect with the fans without all the madness that goes on in my regular life.
Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing.
I’m really a classicist at heart – with a bit of madness!
To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
Anger is a short madness.
You can’t complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I’ve always understood that’s the deal.
What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
I love Jermaine Dupri. He’s very smart at what he does. There’s always a method to his madness.
Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it’s also one on temporality too. Statistics – even when accurate – are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.
I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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.
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
Getting mad only leads to madness.
There is in the DNA of the Italians a bit of madness, which in the overwhelming majority of cases is positive. It is genius. It is talent. It’s the masterpieces of art. It’s the food, fashion, everything that makes Italy great in the world.
In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
When you think of the ‘Exorcist,’ you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real.
When I think about March Madness ’98, the first thing that comes to mind is Mark ‘Mad Dog’ Madsen’s unorthodox dance moves.
Hey, don’t knock Judy Blume. Without her, my younger self would never have been able to decode the random acts of madness perpetrated by the fascinating creature known as the teenage girl.
I love Armani for his classic cuts at times, and then also like Manish Arora’s madness and Roberto Cavalli’s play of colors.
Eurovision’ lifts you off your feet – and, by that, I mean the absolute joy, total insanity and madness of the whole thing.
I last played in Dubai in the summer of 2009 and it was still over 40 degrees in the evening. It was extremely exhausting and absolute madness.
I still love Delhi but get scared of the madness sometime. I know that my fans love me. But it gets a bit tough to handle when, in their excitement, they start touching and poking you to see if you’re for real.
I’m not an academic type in term of personality. I had my share of madness as a teenager.
‘Fill Me In’ went to number one at the same time Destiny’s Child released ‘Say My Name.’ Having a number one over Destiny’s Child at their peak was just madness to me.
I thought of Britain as a moderate place. Britain isn’t a place of majority madness, we’re not like that.
I am dreaming of winning the treble again. I will never forget how I felt after winning it in 2012-13. It was like we were flying. It’s a great feeling, it’s utter madness. I definitely want to have that feeling again at some stage of my career.
America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.
I never Google myself because that way madness lies.
