#mad

I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#anybody #because #beyond #buddha #else

And I think if the president's made a mistake here, it's this laid-back kind of approach where he's waiting for someone else to solve the problem. Some people say it's a political strategy. No matter what it is, it's not effective in solving problems. ↗

— Chris Christie

#effective #else #here #i #i think

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person. ↗

— Julie Christie

#around #away #fabric #first #i

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh. ↗

— Bruce Vilanch

#laugh #made #makes #me #nixon

I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#anything #been #born #could #either

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#functions #long #madness #man #protected

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#feel #his #madman #mouth #open

I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection - there's no middle man muddling it up. ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#already #because #connection #direct #direct connection

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men. ↗

— Albert Claude

#common #courage #equilibrium #ethics #faith

I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#beginning #developed #end #everything #good