Quotes About Mad Geniuses

#1. Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.

Adam Mansbach

#2. I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.

Sherwood Anderson

#3. Joules cackled with delight. "And I've still got time to moon her. You think me arse'll show up on her infrared?" The streetwise bruiser was back.

Kresley Cole

#4. When God created Republicans, he gave up on everything else.

Frank Zappa

#5. Realization of your inner divinity is the scientific religion of thinking humanity.

Abhijit Naskar

#6. All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.

Paloma Faith

#7. Trying to prove something to someone is never a valid reason for doing anything.

Iyanla Vanzant

#8. Although [in 1937] we might still hope to prevent the divisions of Europe into Fascist and anti-Fascist camps, our real affinities and interests, strategic as well as political, lay with France, a fact which some of my colleagues were most reluctant to realise.

Anthony Eden

#9. Geniuses don't go mad," he said. "That's what people don't understand. They get out so far out that the water is like glass and they can see for miles and see so much, and in ways people have never seen before.

Steven Hall

#10. Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

James Gleick

#11. Every generation is more influenced by technology, which is always changing faster.

Chuck Klosterman

#12. David Goodis didn't write novels, he wrote suicide notes.

Ed Gorman