Professor And The Madman Quotes

#1. My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough.' That became my mantra.

Michael Fassbender

#2. I've barely woken up and I'm faced with this spawn of Satan sitting on my bed.

Courtney Cole

#3. The true beauty of a woman is her inherent ability to make better a man in every way.

Donald E. Williams Jr.

#4. The tin-sheep and wooden-melon proletariat produced their papers and named their places of work. The madman with the white beard plucked at the sleeve of the policemen, opened up his folded handkerchief, and said: professor of philosophy.

Herta Muller

#5. Optimism is lack of information.

Faina Ranevskaya

#6. We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day.

Anthony Carmona

#7. She did not know it, but she was actually in despair at the poverty of human emotions. Was it not irrational that there was nothing to do except weep when ten people died, just as one wept for but a single person?

Yukio Mishima

#8. The thing that I try to remember is that in the briefing room it's not a debate. I'm not supposed to go in there and win a debate with the press corps. If that's what I try to do, then I'm going to lose.

Josh Earnest

#9. The women went berserk, to the accompaniment of 'When a Man Loves a Woman.' It was all bass and drums; the musical equivalent, Anna decided, of cheap aftershave.

Sue Margolis

#10. Why are roses kept for their blossoms rather than shunned for their thorns?

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#11. I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

Joshua Slocum