Zitat des Tages über 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.
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.
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
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.'
The poet is a madman lost in adventure.
A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
I'm not a madman.
Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
I am not a madman or a nut.
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.
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!
Only the madman is absolutely sure.
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
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.
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.
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.
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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 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.
'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.
