Madfolk Quotes & Sayings

Political movements always belong to the young. — Harvey Fierstein

Nobody is perfect. The harder you try to attain perfection, the harder you'll fail. — Isobel Irons

Forgive me, I don't mean to be rude," Red said to the twins. "It's just every time I see you two I'm heartbroken, kidnapped, or homeless. — Chris Colfer

In Seattle we live among the trees and the waterways, and we feel we are rocked gently in the cradle of life. Our winters are not cold and our summers are not hot and we congratulate ourselves for choosing such a spectacular place to rest our heads. — Garth Stein

He makes no friends who never made a foe. — Alfred Tennyson

The idea that 'Life' contains situations more interesting and more romantic than all the romances ever written. — Marcel Proust

Harrogate saw them going along Blount Avenue Sunday morning. They wore outfits all cut from the same bolt of cloth and in the church pew standing six across they looked like a strip of gaudy wallpaper cut into those linked dolls madfolk pass their time in fashioning. — Cormac McCarthy

Dean is still asleep. His clothes are strewn about. The shutters are closed. He never dreams. He's like a dead musician, like a spent runner. He hasn't the strength to dream, or rather, his dreams take place while he is awake and they are marvelous for at least one quality: he has the power to prolong them. — James Salter

I'm not an Internet guy - I'm a business guy. — William Fung

I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a relatively niche way, like jazz and poetry, although probably more widely consumed than jazz and poetry since it's fundamentally a narrative form. And I think that's important and places like Word Riot and The New York Tyrant and n+1 will be responsible for keeping it alive. — Nick Antosca

The bottom line is that my life has already almost slipped away from me. I have two choices: I can end it or I can fight like hell to save it. — Martha Manning

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool. — William Blake

A perfect woman's but a softer man. — Alexander Pope

If you are not a skater, you probably can't imagine what I mean. I could try to tell you by saying it's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you.It's a sense of power, of command over distance and gravity, and an illusion of no longer having to move because movement is carrying you. — Sonja Henie