Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
When Steny Hoyer brings up a resolution to support and recognize the University of Maryland men's basketball team - I'm not making this up - before we even had March madness, then you just know that it's just political favoritism.
The explosion of jihad and its desire to export its contagious madness to all areas of the world have changed the way we view immigration.
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
Growing up a lonely only child prepared me for the years of solitude spent as a writer; years spent in the company of people who don't exist, imaginary people you have conversations with. It's a paid form of madness, this writing stuff.
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.
Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of 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.
For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.
If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes.
So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.
So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.
The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.
Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.
What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.
When you're in a different place every day, there's this kind of madness that sets in.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
I think anything we do outside of Gym Class Heroes still falls under the Gym Class Heroes umbrella. There's really no method to the madness. With Gym Class, it's more of a democratic process, and when I'm working on solo stuff, it's just me, either working with producers or sitting in a room by myself. They balance and complement each other.
A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.