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MAD MAGAZINE Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults. -MAD Magazine.
MAD MAGAZINE (Parody that is often falsely believed to be a true quote of Mariah Carey's) Whenever I watch TV and...
MAD MAGAZINE Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang...
MINDY KALING My favorite was the Green Mile parody in Mad Magazine.
FRANK DARABONT As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. A...
MATISYAHU [It was before Vatican II and the liberalization of church doctrine.] You weren't meant to eat meat ...
CHRISTOPHER DURANG Laughter can bring a new perspective.
CHRISTOPHER DURANG If you're a cowboy and you're dragging a guy behind your horse, I bet it would really make you mad i...
JACK HANDY I had a few comics, but I was by no means a huge aficionado. I was more of a 'Mad Magazine,'...
ROBIN LORD TAYLOR It's like Christopher Columbus has finally discovered India.
UDAY KOTAK Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like i...
JON KRAKAUER I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-eve...
ELIZE DU TOIT It was roses, roses, all the way, / With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.
ROBERT BROWNING I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. T...
FIONN WHITEHEAD I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first...
ELIZE DU TOIT It is ridiculous - like a mad whirlwind... it's mad that I'm so famous.
AMY JACKSON It was a hard game. I've missed some shots before, but not like that. I was kind of mad at myself.
HATILA PASSOS so who's more adult- somebody who works like mad to avoid a problem or somebody who works like mad t...
JANET KAGAN I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used books...
AL YANKOVIC I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.
VANESSA FERLITO If there is a heaven, like Saul of Tarsus, Christopher Hitchens is in it. If there is a hell, like L...
BOBBY W. MILLER [Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically e...
DANIEL SULLIVAN The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I ...
ABHISHEK BACHCHAN knowledge without application is like a book that is never read' Christopher Crawford, Hemel Hempste...
CHRISTOPHER CRAWFORD I was mad at myself. It was a stupid foul.
BROOKE NELSON All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never...
M. C. GAINEY This program was closed down because somebody felt like I made somebody mad downtown.
JARVIS JOHNSON He was upset like anyone else would have been. He's like me. He gets real mad. Five minutes later, I...
JAMIE MCMURRAY So she (James) got mad at me because she felt like I was treating her like a thief.
KELLY RYAN It's just phenomenal for a regional magazine like this.
CAROLAYNE HOLLEY Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn’t know where he was going, he didn’t know ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four m...
ELLEN GOODMAN I dived out of the office and I was gone … hitting these fields like a mad March hare. This wasn�...
STEPHEN RICHARDS Watching (Christopher) and watching his reaction, it makes me wanna bawl like a baby to think about ...
MICHAEL WISTOCK When I was eleven, I got cast in the last directorial project of Christopher Reeve.
VANESSA MARANO Ken told us there was a ghost there with us, a little boy named Christopher.
LISA ROGERS how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet
ROBERT BROWNING How sad and bad and mad it was - / But then, how it was sweet!
ROBERT BROWNING I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magaz...
RACHEL KUSHNER Are you OK, Christopher?
CHRIS WILLIAMS Christopher Reeve: Courageous Steps.
CHRISTOPHER REEVE He knew there was a magazine in it but not [a round] in the chamber.
KEVIN DOLL Five years ago, there was the crossover energy where all of a sudden, 'Time Magazine' and 'Newsweek'...
GABRIEL ABAROA I'm really mad, ... It felt like the summer went by so quickly.
MICHELLE CAMPBELL One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine l...
K. A. APPLEGATE I have a sentimental feeling for my very first cover I was on - it was 'Bazaar' Magazine.
CAROL ALT Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he wa...
GRAYDON CARTER My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I t...
JOSEPH CONRAD I raised Christopher to cherish life and to cherish each other every single day, ... Christopher was...
CHRISTOPHER WALLACE Unbelievable was absolutely my first reaction and my second thought was to my son Christopher, that ...
CHRISTOPHER BROWN The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.
BILL MAHER Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brough...
KENNETH KOCH Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, ...
TABITHA SOREN Moving a magazine is like ordering 100,000 gallons of alphabet soup, to go. Last week, in Manhattan,...
JAMES A. LINEN Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover...
JAMES JOYCE With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what...
CARA BUONO The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.
ARTHUR C. DANTO The Rockwell [magazine] cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.
ARTHUR C. DANTO Rincewind rather enjoyed times like this. They convinced him that he wasn’t mad because, if he was...
TERRY PRATCHETT I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine
PHILIP K. DICK A man can define many things beautifully in his life, but his character is one beautiful thing that ...
ANUJ SOMANY What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
MARGOT ASQUITH What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
MARGOT ASQUITH Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher ...
CHRIS ROCK A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.
NORMAN PARKINSON That definitely [ticked] me off. I was mad. It got me going.
KYLE REILLY I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore.
DAVY JONES I was mad, real mad that he called stalling, and I just wanted to win.
RAY WILLETTE I saw the chair in design magazines. It was also in Child Magazine. The designers really thought abo...
ELISABETH AGRO I love discovering new young brands and watching these fashion lines take off, like Peter Pilotto, C...
GILLIAN JACOBS I would like to work with Jean Reno, and I think it would be amazing to work with Jim Carrey. I woul...
THOMAS SANGSTER He was so mad, ... He was fired up.
DAVID PETERSON Anyone who didn't see the game would think it was a mad result,
IKER CASILLAS He was a bit mad I think. He would go hunting with machine guns and things like that. He was an odd ...
NICK MCCARTHY It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a m...
TERRY PRATCHETT Our players are mad, but it's good mad.
NANCY LOPEZ I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are i...
VILLE VALO He wasn't mad, he was sad.
LIONEL SHRIVER Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christop...
CHRIS ROCK When John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk. Get up out of that wh...
JOHN EDWARDS The name used for it is mad-dogging. I like to call them teenage testosterone arguments.
GEORGE ROOSEVELT I had some experience when I joined 'The Sopranos' in the last season. My character married ...
CARA BUONO The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved,...
JACK KEROUAC is like the mad cow calling the herd rabid.
CRAIG SMITH When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shift...
MARYA HORNBACHER Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one bo...
ROBERT WILSON It almost looks like a magazine. The pages turn and everything. You can zoom in. It's sort of the wa...
MARTIN WALKER It was a long night for the umpires, too. I was only mad because he kept insisting he was right.
CRAIG COUNSELL You're the creator of your own future. Get to writing.
ASHLEY BROOKE ROBBINS There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who ha...
JACK VANCE It was so easy. It was like an extra year of high school. The level of play was nothing. We traveled...
MIKE SELLERS In a museum in Havana there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, Òone when he was a boy and one ...
MARK TWAIN Such a mad marriage never was before.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved,...
JACK KEROUAC The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?"
Alice: "Yes..."
The Mad Hatter: "We haven't an...
LEWIS CARROLL I just love crazy people like this,' Murphy said. 'Jack Kerouac people. Mad to live, mad to die, tha...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON When he got to the school, they would not let him in and he was later told Christopher had been shot...
MARK NATION Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.
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CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Confess and be hanged.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Our swords shall play the orators for us.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE What feeds me destroys me.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE There is no sin but ignorance.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Above our life we love a steadfast friend.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
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CHRISTOPHER WALKEN It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.
WARREN CHRISTOPHER I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.
WARREN CHRISTOPHER I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-communit...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet the...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some pr...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations ...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
WARREN CHRISTOPHER The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.
WARREN CHRISTOPHER Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into ...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstra...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.
WARREN CHRISTOPHER I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried ...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of ma...
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WARREN CHRISTOPHER Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and Sou...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russi...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there unti...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists out...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN One always wonders about roads not taken.
WARREN CHRISTOPHER When Caroline Kennedy managed to say 'you know' more than 200 times in an interview with the...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll b...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every t...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew m...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligi...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; thes...
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CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.
CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS Happiness is only real when shared.
CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS I now walk into the wild.
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DENNIS CHRISTOPHER My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend ...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER I've had the good fortune of working with some amazing people. I mean, my first Broadway show wa...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
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CHRISTOPHER MORLEY That's the most amazing thing about writing, whether it's in prose or comics: that you can c...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER Historically, diversity has been a real issue for superhero comics - so we need to do something abou...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true - the form is unparalleled and is home to some of ...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to sp...
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ADAM CHRISTOPHER I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.
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ADAM CHRISTOPHER I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary ...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER 'Doctor Who' is where my love of science fiction and fantasy started. I was introduced to it...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER Even as I was writing 'Empire State,' I knew there were more adventures for the main charact...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a ...
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over.
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CHRISTOPHER MOORE Come live with me, and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove.
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CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it's less odd that ...
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT ...a minority is only thought of as a minority if it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority...
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NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination
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CHRISTOPHER RICKS Only the sinner has a right to preach.
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CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you your...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires so
much attention.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, and
earning.
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CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every tele...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to spend your life
in your own way.
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.
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CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Without fear there cannot be courage.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real cour...
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No, but it's very...
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS What do you most value in your friends?
Their continued existence.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks.
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.
Granted, mos...
CHRISTOPHER HOPPER He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions ...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
CHRISTOPHER LASCH We need to distinguish between nostalgia and the reassuring memory of happy times, which serves to l...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH I sometimes think
His critical judgement is so exquisite
It leaves us nothing to admire except...
CHRISTOPHER FRY Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the soci...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH I find the pessimist to be, if not exactly pleasant, then at least sincere. You always know what a p...
CHRISTOPHER ORLET Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy...
CHRISTOPHER RICKS Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I lo...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who ...
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.
CHRISTOPHER REEVE Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
CHRISTOPHER LASCH