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Finally, faced with horrors both intolerable and unavoidable, I chose madness.


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Alan Moore is a prophetic writer.
GERARD WAY Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.
ADRIANNE PALICKI Sympathy once more reveals its limits when faced with madness.
JOSé ALANIZ Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
ALBERT CAMUS strength to unity unity through faith
ALAN MOORE Alan Moore's first choice to be the Comedian... was Burt Reynolds. But I never saw myself as Bur...
JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN Roschach's Journal: October 12th, 1985

Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tre...
ALAN MOORE Keep two faced people out of your life instead of wasting your time to deal with their madness.
DOMONIC GORDINE People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of 'Watchmen' ...
DAVE GIBBONS I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have.
ALICE BARRETT Listening to her spooling out impractical and transcendental picture-concepts like a hyperventilatin...
ALAN MOORE My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chos...
PEGGY NOONAN I have supped full with horrors.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I was into Alan Moore and Frank Miller. I was a teenager when all those books where coming out for t...
JANE GOLDMAN We both really wanted to go to London but I also wanted to go to Italy. My husband not being keen on...
ANDREA PHILLIPS I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts ...
ALAN MOORE We knew they had a couple players, both named Moore. Jennifer Hinton did a good job on Andrea Moore ...
REGGIE LEE We can go mad whenever we like. We can leave our minds behind and play in the garden at night. The g...
J.J. VLADIMIR You can either grow old gracefully or begrudgingly. I chose both.
ROGER MOORE When I first faced him in '98, I knew he and (Roy) Halladay both had special stuff,
JEFF CONINE Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world...
ALAN MOORE His sister, in a big turquoise Angora sweater, leaned upon the wood frame of the open nursery door, ...
ALAN MOORE It is thanks to men and women who were totally committed to fighting fascism, people like Alan Turin...
GORDON BROWN Even in the cartoon world, Wonder Woman in all her glory never raised children, stabilized a husband...
DON ASLETT I'ts how I want to remember him, the way he was that night: with horrors up ahead and horrors at our...
JONATHAN STROUD Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.
MARY HIGGINS CLARK You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the fir...
TASHA ALEXANDER Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally deli...
BILL HYBELS Dumbfounded, I stood before the court, trying to figure out if there was a state of being between �...
PAUL BEATTY I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fe...
WHITNEY HOUSTON Peter denied Jesus; Judas betrayed Jesus. The bad news was that both of them fell off the track and ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Alex paused. 'I want you to be happy and I want you to be safe,' he said finally.
'I'm both tho...
SARAH ALDERSON Coach (Wes) Moore might have us run with a team and other times, we come down the court and he is ca...
BROOKE HAND To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken's music.
MALLORY JANSEN If I had but one bullet and were faced by both an enemy and a traitor, I would let the traitor have ...
CORNELIU ZELEA CODREANU He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horro...
TERRY PRATCHETT In the final analysis, synthetic and Bermuda were both seen as viable options with mostly positives ...
MORGAN BURKE We've been looking to engage him for a while. It's surprising that this issue is where he finally ch...
ANDY MATTHEWS He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood - both its powe...
RUSSELL M. NELSON When I chose to do 'Carrie,' I never had done anything on camera before. I was always onstag...
ANSEL ELGORT I'm proud of our guys. We faced good arms both nights and got our hits.
DARON SCHOENROCK When faced with a lot of options, people find it difficult to make quick decisions but the ability t...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I saw something in you that I couldn't live without. I chose you, inside of me, and you chose me. It...
SHELLY CRANE I think Dick is certainly capable of doing both jobs, and we'd certainly be happy with him being nam...
BILL NYGREN Nothing Alan Moore writes can be blah-blah-blahed," Park said solemnly.
Eleanor shrugged and bi...
RAINBOW ROWELL Love is madness, and madness is pain. So please; drive me insane with pain.
ENRIQUE VEGA I'm excited about the addition of Alan Sears to our commentary lineup for two reasons ? he is a forc...
JOSEPH FARAH I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up an...
EDDIE CAMPBELL When I left 'The Garry Moore Show,' I signed a 10-year contract with CBS.
CAROL BURNETT We thought last year with Dr. Patrick Moore we were on the right track. (Conference attendees) recei...
DALE LATHIM The panning shot of the soldiers as they ready themselves for the onslaught and now I finally see th...
LIZA PALMER exceptional and intolerable scale.
PETER EIGEN Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric...
CHESTER BROWN There are so many books I love for different reasons. For superhero stuff, I always go back to Alan ...
JEFF LEMIRE America says we are a great democratic society and other people should follow our example. Well, I s...
JIM BROWN I think Alan Greenspan is wrong,
JAMES HOFFA I think we ran the offense a little harder. We're finally coming around and playing on both ends.
JAREKUS SINGLETON I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year a...
DANIEL J. EVANS Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
UNKNOWN It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.
SUSAN SONTAG I was faced more with apathy than opposition.
ADRIAN CRONAUER I am now faced with a terrible dilemma.
HOWARD STERN What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
HILAIRE BELLOC And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness. Freedom of loneliness and safety from being ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I chose you, Clara, and you chose me. End of story.
SHELLY CRANE I have to be clear with myself and very conscious of what I am trying to say. Misunderstandings will...
JOSE PADILHA I’m a seething cauldron of disconnected rage on the inside, Lieutenant.” “Ah, repression,” K...
JOHN SCALZI We are worth fighting for,” we both whispered. Giving one another permission, into each other madn...
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ I faced Gibson many times and faced Sandy Koufax three times.
JUAN MARICHAL I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he...
MOHSIN HAMID My way of dealing with two faced people is simple. Issue an old one two, as that way there's a possi...
LARSS VINCENT MCKEVITT They both had to sacrifice, but they finally understood what I was trying to do.
DON SHULA She is intolerable, but that is her only fault
CHARLES M. DE TALLEYRAND We will understand the depth of our vision when at some point we are finally faced with the price we...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH You chose books. I chose looks.
ROALD DAHL A good horror is better than sex!
SKARLETT HORRORS Ernest chose to go, she finally thinks, watching the fire turn the papers black. He loved her but he...
NAOMI WOOD We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
STEPHEN KING [He] is a tall, grandly built man; [she] tall and delicate. Both are narrow-faced with long, imperia...
RICHARD EDER I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from be...
KAHLIL GIBRAN And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety fro...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.
ERNEST MANDEL My whole life growing up, both my parents told me not to swear like a sailor. After college, I recal...
RORY FREEDMAN I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
ROSIE O'DONNELL Oh, I like Roger Moore - he's cheeky.
BYRON HOWARD Why do I, Mandy Moore, get a record deal?
MANDY MOORE I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
IRIS MURDOCH from all the graces of my homeland
I chose only your savage heart.
PABLO NERUDA Don't confuse poetry with madness.
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM SPADI A genius flirts with madness.
E.C. LEMUS Moore came through for us and finally got his confidence going. That was key. He hasn't shot it yet,...
BILL CARMODY Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and in lending oneself to th...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL But how many chose to ignore the direct attack they laid on what is fed to all of us as 'life,' with...
TOM MCDONOUGH Mr Moore brings with him rich, cross-functional management and consulting experience across the ener...
ESAM JANAHI The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorit...
LAURYN HILL Alan has not been healthy, in my opinion, ... Alan is just now, with this bye week, ought to be full...
BRIAN BILLICK The bad angels were the jinn, and the good angels were the jinn too, and we spoke to them both in th...
HANNAH LILLITH ASSADI For Alan, the material is 25 years old and there is a part of him that has moved on. It is disappoin...
JAMES MCTEIGUE They are getting a lot of good recruits like Orlando Moore and Phillip Brown from Morgan Park (both ...
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Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tre...
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ALAN MOORE When the gap between the world of the city and the world my grandfather had presented to me as right...
ALAN MOORE It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everyb...
ALAN MOORE No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.
ALAN MOORE See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum... and one night, one night they decide they don'...
ALAN MOORE Is it possible, I wonder, to study a bird so closely, to observe and catalogue its peculiarities in ...
ALAN MOORE Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be availa...
GWEN MOORE Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best se...
HENRY MOORE You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
MICHAEL MOORE The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill ...
HENRY MOORE If you ain't got your black hat, there ain't no use in filling out an application.
GREG MOORE