People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.
Vaslav Nijinsky

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
Isadora Duncan

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.'
Graham Swift

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard Shaw

Roger became a part of me, and when he went off the deep end and became a mad snake, I felt sorry for him.
Michael Zaslow

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
Rudyard Kipling

So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music.
Itzhak Perlman

Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.
James Beattie

Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
Kate Chopin

Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall.
Abdul Qadeer Khan

Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.
Matt Groening

Sometimes, the other characters are too normal and then you start to be brought back to reality but then Luna shows up and she is just so funny and cool and honest and slightly mad and she's all that matters. She is 100% true. She puts on no shows, because she is so comfortable with herself.
Evanna Lynch

Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.
Dick Van Dyke

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
Paul Cezanne

The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.
Bill Maher

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.
Maxine Hong Kingston

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
John Updike