Madness Quotes (1981 Quotes)




    The major way of doing anything with one's self is to own one's self. This means to take full responsibility and accountability for whatever I am doing at any moment, with anybody. It means, among other things, that I get rid of all the extra fingers that I point at people and situations to explain my behavior. When a person says 'He made me mad' that is not accurate. It is 'I made me mad.' When I permit myself the luxury of taking that full responsibility, then I'm on first base, at least, because then I can do something about it.






    He stopped eating mother's cooking and he'd eat vegetables only after he'd wash it with dish washing liquid. He thought people were controlling him through the food. I believe Fred was, in layman's terms, crazy at that time.

    In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.



    It really seems to infuriate a lot of Americans. They give the rich people that live on (bond) coupon clipping in resorts all over the world a full pass. But when some autoworker spends weeks or months on a system making that much money, it drives people crazy.

    He gave to Man a blind power that rages and drives him into a madness which extinguishes only before gratification of desire, and placed life in him which is the specter of death.

    I was kind of mad at myself at 17 because I was 5 up after 11 and now he was coming back at me. I just told myself to make a good swing, otherwise it's going to be even tighter. I didn't think standing on the 12th tee that I'd be standing on the 17th tee.

    If you try to get control over it, it will take control over you. If you try to make it work, it will make you work even harder for it. If you no longer believe in it, you will no longer believe that you deserve it. Heres to loveand the madness that comes along with it (Stephanie Adams excerpt from her book entitled 'Empress')


    I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.

    He has punched me. He has hit me. He has kicked me. He has bit me. You name it, he's done it. But I don't get mad. You just have to know that at that point in time, he's not in control of his body.




    That was the key going into it that they're great middles. We just had to manage them. Yeah, they're going to have great kills and people are going to go crazy. But we have to know that we've got to continue to play solid defense.

    Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.

    How much does golf mean to comedian George Lopez When he was in Las Vegas not too long ago to play a round, he was asked to do an opening stand-up gig for Rod Stewart that night, just a quick 45 minutes of work for 130,000. But Lopez said no. He was afraid it might spoil his round if he had to worry about finishing it to get to the hotel on time. Is he crazy Does he know how much 130,000 is ... I know how much it is. I've got 130,000.


    It used to be cool, but if you bad mouth MTV, you sound like a dinosaur, ... The rap is driving me crazy, they all got different jerseys on, more gold than god, beautiful dancers. They all got so much money and then they just flaunt it.







    In December 2003, after pulling their heads out of the sand, the Department of Agriculture closed the barn door after the mad cow had already escaped, ... This bill will ensure that the door is never opened again to abusing sick animals, jeopardizing the public health, threatening the American consumer's confidence in the safety of our meat and potentially undermining a valuable sector of our economy.

    The ability to go from basketball to football is not easy, but it can happen. I don't think it's crazy. This is another page in my life. I'm definitely chasing this dream.

    Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

    It's a documentary that captures the rise and occasional stumblings of this band. It's really crazy, we had forgotten about a lot of the stuff that happens in the film. Like backstage stuff and concert footage. Basically, it tells the story of one really crazy year in this band's life.

    My dad says it's Charles Manson. I like to think that I'm just crazy. I don't want to upset anybody because I don't think I'd make a very good Jesus.

    Oh, my goodness, this is crazy. This time last year, I wouldn't have bet a dollar that I'd be sitting in the place I'm sitting in now. I'm just so thankful and appreciative to city of Seattle, the organization and the players on this team.

    I don't look forward to the day because I don't like to see guys get traded that I like, or other guys. I didn't want to get traded from the Islanders but then when I did, reality set in that I'd been traded. It's a wild day. It's a crazy day.

    Do you know where he got the idea ... From a William Saroyan play, 'The Time of Your Life,' that he saw with my mother. Near the end of the play there is a pinball machine that goes off like crazy. Dad couldn't stop thinking about it.

    When I was first taken to the hospital I told the nurses and doctors that I had six weeks to get better because that's how long it was until they were supposed to hold the Banked Slalom. The nurses looked at me like I was crazy, and the doctors said maybe in six months.






    After signing Ryan Diem (now a starting lineman with the Indianapolis Colts), I asked him about the mail he had received, and his mom said he got one letter or more a day from Kentucky and they never came to his school and never called him. It just shows he was on their list, but they never followed up on it. It's crazy.






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