Words matter. These are the best Madman Quotes from famous people such as Denis Diderot, Ray Nitschke, Mary H.K. Choi, Charles Bukowski, Abdul Qadeer Khan, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
I’m not a madman.
Wikipedia’s a collaborative experiment akin to Simon Winchester’s account of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary in ‘The Professor and the Madman,’ which outlines James Murray’s mission to produce the tome in the 19th century.
Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.
I am not a madman or a nut.
Nicolas Cage, I would love to work with him again. He’s just a fearless madman. He’ll go anywhere you want to go. He would not say ‘no’ to anything.
I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.
I didn’t sleep much in the summer of ’98. Was getting ready to move to New York City. Start a band. That was a madman’s summer. A summer of change.
Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad – because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying ‘You’re mad, you’re mad.’
A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman.
My traducers propound my alleged malefaction as though I have spewed venom on women for half a century. But only a madman would go to the trouble of writing 31 books in order to affirm his hatred.
Richard Nixon, famously, conducted his foreign policy according to the ‘madman theory’: he tried to convince enemy leaders that he was irrational and volatile in an attempt to intimidate them. But this was a potentially useful approach to foreign policy only because it was an act.
Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.
A man who is ‘of sound mind’ is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
Media were never allowed into an Australian dressing room until I became skipper. I changed that and invited them in at the close of play each day, thereby confirming for many administrators they had appointed a madman as captain.
I used to make training films for the U.S. government. I was always cast as a madman or a prisoner. I once played a prisoner who was holding himself hostage with a razor blade.
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
I’m six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It’s reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I’ll become a madman.
‘Betrayed’ starts off with Shane Gallagher rescuing Elena Reyes and a group of hostages from a madman with a gun. And as the story progresses and Shane’s feelings for Elena blossom, his urge to protect her grows.
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
As a coach or manager, if it was something that had to be done I’d be comfortable doing it but I’d still be true to myself. I wouldn’t turn into a madman or start throwing teacups and screaming.
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
I can only be the madman that I’ve been so long.
Ninety percent of people’s nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn’t be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.
Salah is a tough guy. Always calm and strong, with the mentality of a hard worker. I’ll never forget his training sessions: very high rhythm, pushed like a madman, you watched him in amazement.
The poet is a madman lost in adventure.
I don’t enjoy hitting and hurting anyone at all, I’m not a madman.
People call me crazy and a madman. Even ‘Tasmanian Devil.’ I’d rather be called the ‘Tasmanian Angel.’
I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I am a madman of details.
Only the madman is absolutely sure.
The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.
My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose its place.
I always drive like a madman.
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
