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The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death? [Lat., Hic rogo non furor est ne moriare mori?]
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.
The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.
The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.
I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.
A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.
If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.
You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.
To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say yes is a better thing.
Eurovision' lifts you off your feet - and, by that, I mean the absolute joy, total insanity and madness of the whole thing.
When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.
I love Armani for his classic cuts at times, and then also like Manish Arora's madness and Roberto Cavalli's play of colors.
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.
I struggle in these situations not to let my madness govern me, and to let the positive aspects of my character define my life.
Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.
I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can't get mad at what we do, because then they're just making of themselves.
You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.
One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.
Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end
I think all that we would know of America back home is foreign policy, and maybe the snippets of the madness of political culture.
When I first became known in public I was sent off to bootcamps. I was thrown into all this madness of weight loss and weight gain.
...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.
I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.
I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.
I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."
Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.
That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.
What's your specialty? Oh, you know. Madness. Mayhem. Debauchery. And even with all that going for me, I can still make a mean mojito.
Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
We can all look on the Internet and go, 'He hates me! Oh, but she loves me. Oh, but he hates me,' you know. And that way, madness lies.
Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.
To seek trouble - this is not courage, this is madness. Courage is the willingness of man to sensibly face the troubles he cannot avoid.
Jack Taylor was a private investigator in Galway, which seemed like madness. I used lots of Galway-isms, which seemed like madness, too.
Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.