#mad

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#born #i #i think #made #think

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. ↗

— Voltaire

#madness #miserable #optimism #well

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. ↗

— Voltaire

#astronomy #daughter #daughters #dominated #earth

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. ↗

— Voltaire

#eating #god #had #made #more

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts. ↗

— Voltaire

#hell #made #paradise #tender

I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#cheque #dress #good #here #i

If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career. ↗

— Larry Wachowski

#career #entire #entire career #hamburgers #interested

By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good. ↗

— Jack Wagner

#boy #certainly #dancer #feel #feel good

My brothers nodded their heads in unison. All of them but me. It wasn’t okay. I didn’t want her to leave. I didn’t care if Jesus wanted her or not. She was my mommy. He could take an old mommy. One that didn’t have little boys to take care of. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#beauty

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too. ↗

— Tom Waits

#go #learn #listening #made #make