#mad

I've zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#anything #art #best #call #does

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#calculate #heavenly #heavenly bodies #i #i can

You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#between #difference #discover #guys #mad

There's a girl, Dad." He smiled a bit. "A girl." "She kinda hates me, and I kinda..." "Love her?" "I don't know. I don't think so. I mean...how do you know?" His smile grew wider. "When you're talking about her with your old dad because you don't know what else to do. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#travis-maddox #beauty

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#atomic bomb #beyond #bomb #country #different

If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion. ↗

— Origen

#became #been #clearly #fathers #him

When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity. ↗

— Origen

#being #building #built #calm #fine

One of the things that I've learned working with Madonna is you just move forward. It's really rare that she ever brings up the past. ↗

— Guy Oseary

#ever #forward #i #just #learned

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. ↗

— Thomas Otway

#enjoyment #grows #inflamed #lust #madder

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan. ↗

— Ouida

#christianity #death #gay #made #pagan