#mad

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent. ↗

— George Carlin

#edison #electric #electric light #gas #had

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#great #great discovery #literary #literary men #literature

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet. ↗

— Robert Caro

#become #deliberately #effort #expert #i

One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money - putting a price on your childhood - is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can't put a price on them. ↗

— Tom Felton

#childhood #fame #get #idea #keep

There was a scary two years where it was madness because I was really in trouble with the taxman. ↗

— Tom Felton

#i #madness #really #scary #trouble

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty. ↗

— John le Carre

#boy #class family #clothes #dirty #down

If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#fans #girl #i #like #madonna

The reporter claimed he was going to write the article from my point of view. Instead, he made me sound like a little idiot. It made me never want to do another interview again. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#another #article #claimed #going #idiot

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