Maniacal 4 Quotes

#1. What sort of person," said Salzella patiently, "sits down and writes a maniacal laugh? And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head. Opera can do that to a man.

Terry Pratchett

#2. What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?

Henry Miller

#3. Maniacal suicide. - This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.

Emile Durkheim

#4. Lifelong monogamy is a maniacal idea.

Germaine Greer

#5. Ch'in Shih-huang is the first emperor of China. He united seven separate kingdoms into a single nation. He built the Great Wall and was buried with the terra-cotta soldiers. The Chinese have mixed feelings about him. They're proud of the nation he created, but he was a maniacal tyrant.

Gene Luen Yang

#6. We're your friends," said Bridget.
"And we're worried about you,"said Pepe.
"I'm fine." Then I mean to laugh a silly, carefree kind of laugh, but it came out more maniacal than intended. "HAH-hee-hee-hah-hah-HAH!"
Bridget and Pepe exchanged terrified looks.

Megan McCafferty

#7. Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all ... Everybody really, really likes everybody else.

Lizzy Caplan

#8. The company just needs to see you as like this maniacal execution machine.

Sam Altman

#9. Wanted to give you a heads up: I heard that Flat Finn sustained an injury the other day. Nothing major, though. Something to do with Matt, a steaming iron, and maniacal shouts of, "There are no wrinkles allowed in this house! You may be flat, but you're not smooth enough yet for this family!"

Jessica Park

#10. I know that maniacal twinkle in your eye. You're up to something Gwen, he said.

Jennifer Estep

#11. Mr Weasley gave a maniacal laugh; Mrs Weasley threw him a look, upon which he became immediately silent and assumed an expression appropriate to the sickbed of a close friend.

J.K. Rowling

#12. I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.

Ed Belfour

#13. I'm a maniacal perfectionist.

Martha Stewart

#14. People, particularly over-moralistic Americans, have often seen me as a pessimist and humourless to boot, yet I think I have an almost maniacal sense of humour. The problem is that it's rather deadpan.

J.G. Ballard

#15. I was like a local sports team; they were the fans in the stadium seats. They cheered. They booed. They stood and did the Wave. The bond was palpable, maniacal, and maybe the most important thing about the experience.

Caroline Paul

#16. Being an artist and a musician, I have witnessed the previous generation taking the art form, not as a way of making a living, but as a belief, an almost maniacal, sometimes insane devotion and commitment to communication.

David Finckel

#17. The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

James Thurber

#18. Menacing, maniacal, like bees
Kept in glass jars
For centuries.
History wants to hurt you.

Cynthia Cruz

#19. I would say I think Jason is going to lose and Freddy will win. I don't know why. I just feel that Freddy is more maniacal and thinks more than Jason does.

Monica Keena

#20. [Walter Burns is] the archetypal managing editor-ruthless, self-righteous, manipulative, downright maniacal if it means an exclusive, especially one that it can congratulate itself for on its own front page.

Jay Carr

#21. Children's laughter - carefree, giddy, maniacal - filled the woods. A nightmare version of some game from his youth.

Blake Crouch

#22. I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.

Cate Blanchett

#23. (On the book "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me") Coming on like the Hallelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players with perfect pitch. Hilarious, chilling, sexy, profound, maniacal, beautiful and outrageous all at the same time.

Thomas Pynchon

#24. The maniacal lunatics in control of our society know exactly how human beings tick and they are masters at manipulation.

Bruce McDonald

#25. Science. They were all the science experiments of a maniacal government bent on controlling the universe.

Lynn Vroman

#26. It seemed she tempted fate and now that cruel bitch was laughing at her in maniacal glee." ~ Jenna

Jessie Lane

#27. As a kid, I couldn't articulate it but I sought out things that could. At first it was horror films - extreme panic and terror, grotesque and maniacal. These films calmed me and made me feel more connected in my experiences.

Tony Burgess

#28. Metaphysically, his bowl filled and emptied at the same time. Violent and maniacal to push himself so far, he'd both created and destroyed his body's energy. In other words he had complete power, self-sustaining, self-sacrificing power at the origin of himself.

E.J. Koh

#29. A vague worry has started alongside my self-satisfaction: I have established, with amazing rapidity, a reputation for maniacal, self-destructive courage.

William Boyd

#30. As a kid, you await holidays with a wide-eyed, passionate, almost maniacal enthusiasm. Heavy breathing is involved.

Gina Barreca