#madman

Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously. ↗

— Kerry Thornley

#abraham lincoln #although #letters #lincoln #madman

My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose its place. ↗

— Evel Knievel

#build #country #dropped #earth #end

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.' ↗

— Graham Swift

#every #inside #knew #little #mad

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#cell #chained #every #his #however

Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even after they are done, before they can be seen and heard. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#friedrich-nietzsche #lightning #madman #the-gay-science #thunder

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#every #frightened #genius #had #head

I am not a madman or a nut. ↗

— Abdul Qadeer Khan

#i #i am #madman #nut