The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?" Alice: "Yes..." The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young. - Lewis Carroll Oh -- who's the Queen?" "Her, of course. The White Queen. You're just like Alice, you know. Down the rabbit hole with the Mad Hatter. - Rachel Caine

I was stark raving mad, and my family was too polite to mention it... They get so well-mannered they won't mention you're crazy - Tamora Pierce Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. - Harper Lee

I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter. - Jodi Picoult Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something. - Madeleine Albright There is nothing in the world, I tell you, so maddening as a person who doesn't answer when you abuse him. You shout and you scold, you are ready to burst a gut, and he stands there and smiles... - Sholem Aleichem I have heard people bewailing man's landing on the moon, as though before it was touched by an astronaut's foot it was made of silver or mother-of-pearl, and that footprint turned it into gray dust. But the moon never was made of mother-of-pearl, and it still shines ...

That's how you tell what a man's really made of. It's one thing for a man to be big and brave and kill a spider. Any man could do that. Trailin' after a woman when she's shopping for thongs and push-up bras is a whole other category of man. And then if you want to see how far you can go with it, you ask him to carry one of those little pink bags they give you. - Janet Evanovich I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it. - Julie Andrews Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff. - Fiona Apple Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know? - Gael Garcia B...

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it. - Mark Twain An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative. - Lascelles Abercrombie You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values. - Peter Abrahams Friends are born, not made. - Henry Brooks Adams Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang; Ye were not made to live like unto brutes But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge. - Dante Alighieri Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. - Dante Alighieri But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. - Ernest Hemingway Man is not made for defeat. - Ernest Hemingway I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad. - Anacreon What's...

True brilliance has a well-known positive correlation with decency, much of the time--a fact the rest of us rely on, more than we ever know. The real world doesn't roil with as many crazed artists, psychotic generals, dyspeptic writers, maniacal statesmen, insatiable tycoons, or mad scientists as you see in dramas. - David Brin My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a testtube markedSOBER REALITYinto another labeledSUNNY DELUSION, and back again, faster and faster, until the floor of my life was slick with spillage. - Jonathan Lethem I do like to cook; I'm sort of a mad scientist in the kitchen. - Kyle Chandler Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos. - David Cronenberg Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bo...

Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, don't be the paralyzed person in the bed who is waiting to walk again. Realize, it's never gonna happen. And find some other way to get around swing from a vine, get a Mad Max wheelchair. Anything but...wait. - Augusten Burroughs I always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'. - Julian Casablancas I feel like the original 'Mad Max' created such a vivid world, that to go back and re-imagine it and kind of replay in that sandbox sounds like fun to me. - Riley Keough Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number. - Patrick Mcgoohan I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad ...

Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff. - Alison Bechdel Uglier than death backin' outta the outhouse readin' mad magazine and crazy as a football bat. - Alan Moore I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it. - Al Yankovic My greatest thrill was the day Mad magazine spoofed 'Ghost.' - Jerry Zucker But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine. - Jerry Zucker

Mad Hatter: "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?" "Have you guessed the riddle yet?" the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. "No, I give it up," Alice replied: "What's the answer?" "I haven't the slightest idea," said the Hatter - Lewis Carroll Why is a raven like a writing-desk? - Mad Hatter - Lewis Carroll "You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness". Mad Hatter - Lewis Carroll Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea? Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more. March Hare: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less. Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing. - Lewis Carroll The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?" Alice: "Yes..." The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young. - Lewis Carroll Oh -- who's the Queen?" "Her, of...

The world needed changing - that I knew. Global warming threatened to give us all a lethal tan; war and poverty decimated whole nations; crops worldwide were shriveling; even our brethren beasts menaced us with their monkey pox and bird flu and mad cow disease. - Jeff Deck The Statue of Liberty, that frequently malevolent bitch, has an enormous tumor in her gut that has spread to her brain and eyes. With regard to the Native Americans she has Alzheimer's or mad cow disease and can't remember her past, and her blind eyes can't see the terrifying plight of most of the Indian tribes. Meanwhile she blows China and stomps Cuba to death, choosing to forget the Native cultures she has already destroyed. - Jim Harrison Though the industrial logic that made feeding cattle to cattle seem like a good idea has been thrown into doubt by mad cow disease, I was surprised to learn it hadn't been discarded. The FDA ban on feeding ruminant protein to ruminants makes an exception for b...

I don't think you get to be mad at someone unless they come through for you. I don't think you have that luxury. I think you think you can be mad, but really you're just doing something else." "What's that?" "Waiting. - Laura Dave When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat. - Evel Knievel I think you can only be truly mad at someone you really love. Grace Trevelyan - James E Rogers

What's with her?" says the painter. "She's mad because she's a woman," Jon says. This is something I haven't heard for years, not since high school. Once it was a shaming thing to say, and crushing to have it said about you, by a man. It implied oddness, deformity, sexual malfunction. I go to the living room doorway. "I'm not mad because I'm a woman," I say. "I'm mad because you're an asshole. - Margaret Atwood I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anybody - not anymore. - Dave Chappelle I'm not mad. I'm in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole. - Kurt Cobain Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad, I'm just... well, differently moraled, that's all. - Jasper Fforde I'm not mad. I'm just...well, differently moraled, that's all. - Jasper Fforde Danny smiles. Really smiles--like it means a lot that I'm not mad at him anym...

She held her breath as it stopped ringing and connected. "Hello, beautiful Livia," Blake answered. "How did you know it was me?" Livia saw her wide smile in the rear view mirror. "The phone looked sexier when it rang." She could hear a matching smile in his voice and sighed. Livia hugged herself with her free arm. Just the sound of him made her skin beg to be touched. - Debra Anastasia Livia, I'm made of glass, but it only shows in the sun. I can't be caught in sunlight or everyone will know what I am." "I'm sorry to hear that, Blake. But I bet you're very beautiful in the sun." She watched as his face became triumphant. - Debra Anastasia Being with him made me want to make my own dreams, discover my own path. I was my best self when I was with him. - Heather Anastasiu What's with her?" says the painter. "She's mad because she's a woman," Jon says. This is something I haven't heard for years...

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish... You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger. - Simone De Beauvoir I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself? - Yogi Berra I get mad like anybody else does, but being able to laugh about getting mad is very healthy, and my kids know that. - Louis C K If I would be happy, I would be a very bad ball player. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body. - Roberto Clemente I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy. - Harrison Ford If I think too much about John Odom wea...

My clothes are made of monosodium glutamate and hexachlorophene. My food is made of polyester, rayon and lurex. My rug lotions contain vitamins. Do my vitamins feature cleaning agents? I hope so. My brain is gimmicked by a microprocessor the size of a quark, and costing ten pee and running the whole deal. I am made of junk, I'm just junk. - Martin Amis I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am. - Kate Atkinson Are you mad? (Artemis) Yes, I am. Mad at this world where we are nothing to the gods. Mad at the Fates who put us here for no purpose except to toy with us for their petty amusement. I wish all of the gods were dead and gone. (Acheron) - Sherrilyn Kenyon It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours. - Diogenes Of Sinope She's liked you since chemistry last semester," Carmel says, scowling. "Then you should have told her what an ass I am. Made me sound like a moronic jerk." "Better t...

The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later. - Douglas Adams Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the most familiar face- even my own- become ghostly, unreal, enigmatic. I get into an attitude of almost total scepticism, nescience, solipsism, in a world of dumb, sphinx-like things that cannot explain themselves. The discovery of how I am situated- a sentient being on a globe in space overshadows me. I wish I were just nothing. - W N P Barbellion Stupidity often saves a man from going mad. - Oliver Wendell Holmes I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me. - Edward Bond ...I saw the infernal Thing blocking my path in the twilight. The dead travel fast, and by short cuts unknown t...

Take a note: it usually works better if you wait until I do something stupid before getting mad at me. - Patricia Briggs Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart. - Emily Giffin I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. - Emily Giffin I get mad like anybody else does, but being able to laugh about getting mad is very healthy, and my kids know that. - Louis C K Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted. - Richard Wagner Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex. - Maggie Gyllenhaal You have to be able to be a good loser. You...

I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to say to me: count to ten before you get mad, Reacher. And I've counted way past ten on this one. Way past. - Lee Child I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has it's own zip code. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've got PMS. You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not. - Jodi Picoult If you care about something enough, it's going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad. Arnold, get mad. - Sherman Alexie I don't get mad, I get even. - Patricia Briggs Don't get even, get mad. - Frank Sinatra You know what we...