#mad

You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#free-spirit #free-thought #madness #dreams

That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#heroes #madmen #death

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#apparatus #challenge #conscience #humanity #legal

If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face. ↗

— Elizabeth Banks

#across #around #child #complain #ever

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#anybody #belong #boy #genius #go

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#consider #follow #knowledge #live #made

When you're on the Olympic team at 15, you don't do anything else. There's no normal social development, and your decisions are made for you. ↗

— Cathy Rigby

#decisions #development #else #made #normal

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people? ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#among #diversity #god #his #image

Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#creative #friends #good #made #necessarily

The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#characters #fact #i #like #made