#mad

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#am #canada #canadian #i #i am

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#dare #else #free #little #madness

Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#beyond #character #create #expressions #feeling

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#anyone #common #common denominator #denominator #fear

We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects. ↗

— Howard Carter

#being #crowded #large #made #objects

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#ages #any #blindness #design #enlightened

The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in. ↗

— Sydney Carter

#certainly #come #fortune #grateful #i

A woman should say: "Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?" If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy. ↗

— Barbara Cartland

#another woman #because #bed #before #does

I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital. ↗

— John Henry Carver

#came #canberra #capital #car #did

Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#began #censors #developments #game #involved