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1. "Only two hours earlier she was telling me how great I was because I could cook eggs. Now my egg-making means I'm a homicidal maniac. Now I might wipe out random people at a mall because I don't smile enough. Why are the adults in my life so determined to bring me down when I'm feeling good?I find myself thinking that it would be nice to be able to fix my life the way I'm fixing the patio. I wonder, is there enough terracotta-colored cement to fill the hole where my father should be? Or where my mother's spine should be? Or where my guts should be?"
Author: A.S. King
2. "That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn't in the norm."
Author: Alice Cooper
3. "Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it."
Author: Bradley Whitford
4. "My homicidal maniac is of a peculiar kind. I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoophagous (life-eating) maniac; what he desires is to absorb as many lives as he can, and he has laid himself out to achieve it in a cumulative way. .."
Author: Bram Stoker
5. "The change of character brought about by the uprush of collective forces is amazing. A gentle and reasonable being can be transformed into a maniac or a savage beast. One is always inclined to lay the blame on external circumstances, but nothing could explode in us if it had not been there. As a matter of fact, we are constantly living on the edge of a volcano, and there is, so far as we know, no way of protecting ourselves from a possible outburst that will destroy everybody within reach. It is certainly a good thing to preach reason and common sense, but what if you have a lunatic asylum for an audience or a crowd in a collective frenzy? There is not much difference between them because the madman and the mob are both moved by impersonal, overwhelming forces."
Author: C.G. Jung
6. "Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?"
Author: C.S. Lewis
7. "AVERT DISASTER, in fact, would have been a perfect school motto—the purpose of the place, as far as Schwartz could tell, was to keep three thousand would-be maniacs sedated by boredom until a succession of birthdays transformed them into adults."
Author: Chad Harbach
8. "It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison."
Author: Cindy Sheehan
9. "Winny had learned from books... you had to be tested in life to discover who you were and what you were capable of doing. Hopeless sissy, noble warrior, maniac - he could be anything, and he wouldn't know until he was tested. One thing he could never be was Santa Claus. Nobody could be Santa Claus. Santa Claus wasn't real like the FedEx guy."
Author: Dean Koontz
10. "Why, Wally," he said. "Except for leaving out the part where Tom continues to be a homicidal maniac, it's all the truth."
Author: Donald E. Westlake
11. "Too many maniacs not enough michelangelos"
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
12. "Not being assaulted is not a privilege to be earned through the judicious application of personal safety strategies. A woman should be able to walk down the street at 4 in the morning in nothing but her socks, blind drunk, without being assaulted, and I, for one, am not going to do anything to imply that she is in any way responsible for her own assault if she fails to Adequately Protect Herself. Men aren't helpless dick-driven maniacs who can't help raping a vulnerable woman. It disrespects EVERYONE."
Author: Emily Nagoski
13. "Not to sound egomaniac or anything, but just to get under people's skin like that, and for them to believe in you and believe strongly enough to write... it's flattering and it helps you during the day."
Author: Glenn Quinn
14. "I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight woods which no day illustrates, suggesting a vast and undeveloped nature which men have not recognized. They represent the stark twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have. All day the sun has shown on the surface of some savage swamp, where the double spruce stands hung with usnea lichens, and small hawks circulate above, and the chickadee lisps amid the evergreens, and the partridge and rabbit skulk beneath; and now a more dismal and fitting day dawns, and a different race of creatures awakes to express the meaning of Nature there."
Author: Henry David Thoreau
15. "It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say."
Author: Henry Fonda
16. "A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself."
Author: Henry Morgan
17. "All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders - all maniacs. What else but a blind singlenee of purpose could have given focus to thier genius, would have kept them in the groove of purpose. Mania ... is as priceless as genius."
Author: Ian Fleming
18. "It started embarrassing me. I began to feel like such a nasty little egomaniac." She reflected. "I don't know. It seemed like such poor taste, sort of, to want to act in the first place. I mean all the ego. And I used to hate myself so, when I was in a play, to be backstage after the play was over. All those egos running around feeling terribly charitable and warm. Kissing everybody and wearing their makeup all over the place, and then trying to be horribly natural and friendly when your friends came backstage to see you. I just hated myself."
Author: J.D. Salinger
19. "I could hear Dean, blissful and blabbering and frantically rocking. Only a guy who's spent five years in jail can go to such maniacal helpless extremes; beseeching at the portals of the soft source, mad with a completely phsycial realization of the origins of life-bliss; blindly seeking to return the way he came"
Author: Jack Kerouac
20. "(difficult to make a real confession and show what happened when you're such an egomaniac all you can do is take off on big paragraphs about minor details about yourself and the big sole details about others go sitting and waiting around)"
Author: Jack Kerouac
21. "When she said she's making dinner, my initial reaction was, "Sex!" When she said she wanted to go lay down, my initial response was, "Sex!" No matter what she said, I always thought, "Sex!" She must be one freaky nymphomaniac, because everything she says is carefully designed to get me thinking about sex."
Author: Jarod Kintz
22. "Why did the brick and blanket cross the road? Because some maniac had just run over the chicken. That maniac was me, and that chicken was delicious."
Author: Jarod Kintz
23. "Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain."
Author: Jerry Spinelli
24. "Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: 'Kid's gotta be a maniac."
Author: Jerry Spinelli
25. "This means that I don't have to run faster than the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal, I just have to run faster than whoever is with me when the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal starts chasing us."
Author: Jim Benton
26. "I hate carrying a torch, which is weird because otherwise I'm such a pyromaniac"
Author: Josh Stern
27. "He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war."
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
28. "I'll distract her . . . Okay, lady. Say hello to my little friend." Lance began to laugh maniacally. "What'd you do?" Heinrich asked. "Had a rat crawl up her dress to bite her on the ass. Ha!"
Author: Larry Correia
29. "And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't give me a basket of strawberries right now, I'm going to poke you with this large stick." But when the two elder Baudelaires and Quigley Quagmire opened the refrigerator, they found nothing that would help someone who was wounded, dying of thirst, or being threatened by a strawberry-crazed, stick-carrying maniac."
Author: Lemony Snicket
30. "All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes."
Author: Lionel Richie
31. "Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation."
Author: Louis De Bernieres
32. "Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book."
Author: Madonna
33. "So, if it's an axe weilding maniac reeking bloody havoc all over the neighborhood, exactly what are we going to defend ourselves with, our boners?"Callum to Jacob"
Author: Mark Alders
34. "A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those are two very different things. For the first one, that you want to write a book, I think is an excellent idea and you should totally do that because teenagers who want to write, you should be writing. You should be writing all the time like a maniac. Don't worry about the second bit, just yet because A. You need a lot of practice. You need to do it for, I'm not kidding, years. And then once you are published, it's a business. It's a job. Plus, every author I know was that teenager who sat in their room and read and wrote. That's who becomes an author, but that's what you have to do for a while before you become an author."
Author: Maureen Johnson
35. "I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it's bad, it's like some crazy college guy watching a football game."
Author: Melissa McCarthy
36. "Menuret repeats an observation of Forestier's that clearly shows how an excessive loss of a humor, by drying out the vessels and fibers, may provoke a state of mania; this was the case of a young man who 'having married his wife in the summertime, became maniacal as a result of the excessive intercourse he had with her."
Author: Michel Foucault
37. "Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man."
Author: Mignon McLaughlin
38. "Should he give free reign to his desires, the bibliomaniac can ruin his life along with the lives of his loved ones. He'll often take better care of his books than of his own health; he'll spend more on fiction than he does on food; he'll be more interested in his library than in his relationships, and, since few people are prepared to live in a place where every available surface is covered with piles of books, he'll often find himself alone, perhaps in the company of a neglected and malnourished cat. When he dies, all but forgotten, his body might fester for days before a curious neighbor grows concerned about the smell."
Author: Mikita Brottman
39. "For a nymphomaniac like myself, I suppose there could be no job more suitable than prostitution; it is my God-given destiny. No matter how violent a man might be, or how ugly, at the moment we're in the act I cannot help but love him. And what's more I'll grant his every wish, no matter how shameful. In fact, the more twisted my partner is, the more attracted I will be to him, because my ability to meet my lover's demands is the one way I can feel alive.That is my virtue. It is also my biggest flaw. I can't deny a man. I'm like a vagina incarnate—female essence embodied. If I ever were to deny a man, I would stop being me."
Author: Natsuo Kirino
40. "Oh, what marvelous egomaniacs you men are!"
Author: Nora Roberts
41. "Azi a venit un pacient cu barba roscata, ochi albastri, un albastru diluat, cenusiu. Se uita ca un câine umil la mine. L-am întrebat cum îl cheama. N-a raspuns nimic. "Cum te cheama?" am repetat. Tacere. Se uita la mine, cu ochi ficsi, goi. Mi s-a facut frica. M-am stapânit, sa nu vada. Si ca sa-mi dau curaj am strigat la el. "Cum te cheama?" Nimic. Nici un rezultat. Am batut cu pumnul în masa. "Cum te cheama?" am zbierat. Nici macar nu s-a clintit. Am început sa tremur. Nu-mi mai stapâneam nervii. Vrând sa ies pe usa, l-am auzit murmurând ceva. N-am înteles si m-am întors. "Ce-ai zis?" "Nu sunt nebun", bâigui el. "Nu ma intereseaza asta, am strigat. Cum te cheama?" Parca nici nu m-a auzit. Mi-a repetat acelasi lucru. "Nu sunt nebun". Am iesit si i-am scris pe fisa: "Monomaniac cu tendinta schizofrenica. De urmarit îndeaproape"."
Author: Octavian Paler
42. "He really would have done all that for her, you see, and done it believing he'd burn in hell forever for doing it. He hadn't done it, and wouldn't had made her his anyway, but you see why he'd have figured it did. Or maybe I saw it anyway, at the time. He was a maniac and a monster, but people don't love like that anymore. Or maybe it's only the maniacs and monsters who do. I don't know."
Author: Peter S. Beagle
43. "I'd disagree with the characterisations of him as competitive (which I think was just misinterpretation of his ambition) or secretive (which I think is more about wanting to protect his team and his customers). Jeff [Bezos] could much more accurately be described as a naively optimistic geek than a calculating megalomaniac."
Author: Richard L. Brandt
44. "He punched me in the face," Ash said, who understandably did not seem to find the situation humorous at all. "And then he yelled at me for sleeping with our personal trainer!""I was told breakup scenes were a good way to distract people," Jared said with beautiful simplicity."Ash looked so surprised," Holly said. "He had no idea what was going on. He said, 'I didn't sleep with our personal trainer! We don't even have a personal trainer!'"Angela and Holly giggled. Ash held the back of his hand to his bleeding mouth and glared. Jared was still grinning like a maniac. "In that case," he told Ash solemnly, "I will consider taking you back."
Author: Sarah Rees Brennan
45. "I told her that my happy yellow teapot has a kinky backstory involving a nineteenth-century vegetarian sex cult in upstate New York whose members lived for three decades as self-proclaimed "Bible communists" before incorporating into the biggest supplier of dinnerware to the American food-service industry, not to mention harboring their most infamous resident, an irritating young maniac who, years after he moved away, was hanged for assassinating President Garfield."
Author: Sarah Vowell
46. "You actually enjoyed that, didn't you? (Amanda)Oh, hell yes! Did you see the look on their faces? Man, I love this car. (Kyrian)(She looked up at the sky and implored divine aid.)Dear God, please separate me from this maniac before I die of fright. (Amanda)"
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
47. "Getting help from a guy like you is like hiring a pyromaniac to fix the oil-burner."
Author: Stephen King
48. "Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates."
Author: Sue Grafton
49. "No man was more sensitive than Zweig to the destructive effects upon individual liberty of the demands of large or strident collectivities. He would have viewed with horror the cacophony of monomanias—sexual, racial, social, egalitarian—that marks the intellectual life of our societies, each monomaniac demanding legislative restriction on the freedom of others in the name of a supposed greater, collective good."
Author: Theodore Dalrymple
50. "The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future."
Author: Thom Yorke
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