Maniac Quotes

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? (George Carlin)
Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. View quote
George Orwell
I've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac. View quote
Ray Liotta
I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter. View quote
Mark Twain
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge. View quote
Bela Lugosi
I travel a lot. If you look at my suitcase, everything is extremely well-packed and well-folded; people who travel with me are impressed at how organized I am. Some would refer to me as a maniac for this. View quote
Joel Robuchon
I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up. View quote
Glenn Frey
Around mid-life everyone goes maniac a little bit. View quote
Tom Berenger
It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it, and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams. ... what has no meaning admits no explanation. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much ridicule that you would never forget it? With his morbid dream of primitive and rustic life, with his nostalgia for Homeric cheeses and legendary wool-spinners, with his hatred for the machine, steam power, and electricity, that maniac of antique simplicity is like a man who, after having reached full physical maturity, still wants to sleep in his cradle and feed himself at the breast of his decrepit old nurse in order to recover his thoughtless infancy. View quote
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right--a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates. (Sue Grafton)
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. View quote
George Santayana
When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble. View quote
Camille Paglia
You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen. View quote
Victor Hugo
Hey Grover! Thorn's kidnapping us! He's a poisonous spike-throwing maniac! Help! View quote
Rick Riordan
This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else. View quote
Christina Ricci
I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head. View quote
Dick Dale
I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic. View quote
Kate Dickie
I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse. View quote
Robert Klein
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse. (Charlie Sheen)
My mum went and married a really horrible horrible man, who drove a taxi at night and had a sticky-fingered son and he smoked cigars in the toilet. Smelled terrible! Again, there's no therapy, there's no counseling over the whole situation! Just married the maniac. And there was a new person in her bed now, and I couldn't do my nightly performance anymore. I was nine years old and my show had been canceled! View quote
Tracey Ullman
I distinguish between maniacs and crazy people; a maniac will beat nine people to death with a steel dildo. A crazy person will beat nine people to death with a steel dildo, but he'll be wearing a Bugs Bunny suit at the time. View quote
George Carlin
Let me arrive safely back at my hotel room. Don't let me be attacked by a maniac wearing a french tickler and a space helmet. Don't let my beard become entangled in the gears of a transcontinental bus. And don't let me be hit by a flying turd. View quote
George Carlin
No solitary miscreant, scarcely any solitary maniac, would venture on such actions and imaginations, as large communities of sane men have, in such circumstances, entertained as sound wisdom. View quote
Thomas Carlyle