Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.


Rohinton Mistry

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Flirting with madness is one thing. But when madness starts flirting back, its time to call the whol...
ROHINTON MISTRY
Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
There was madness. These are people who live life differently than most of us. There's that classic ...
ANDY GARCIA
It was a good time, ... I like just flirting around.
DAVID PRESCOTT
We were afraid a fight was going to start. She was flirting with him.
MARGARITA CHAVES
It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.
TIM WINTON
We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
D.H. LAWRENCE
We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
LILLIAN SMITH
Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense, such a dependency of thing on thing, as e'er I heard in ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The madness of faith is a very different thing from the madness of Enlightenment Reason.
ADAM ROBERTS
I've always thought that love was being foolish and stupid. It's about being on the edge and I like ...
LOUIS NOWRA
You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cu...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
When it fails, they do call it madness, Lazarus. But when it succeeds, they call it genius.
ERIKA JOHANSEN
Are you flirting with me?
MEG CABOT
You call it madness, but I call it love.
DON BYAS
I talked to her about things like how to take notes. We weren't flirting, though. At the time, I did...
TOM OSWALD
If you think flirting is corny, think again. Flirting is teasing, and teasing builds anticipation.
APRIL MASINI
He was flirting with me. He blew his whistle and looked at me with every decision he made... Maybe i...
WANDERLEY LUXEMBURGO
He was flirting with me. He blew his whistle and looked at me with every decision he made....Maybe i...
VANDERLEI LUXEMBURGO
I'm still flirting with No. 1. It just so happens that I have a two behind the one.
MICHAEL CHANG
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively
VOLTAIRE
Back then was more an off-the-grid thing. Remember the whole wheat bread in those days? You could ha...
JIL HALES
We knew their power play was good going into the game. We took too many penalties. That's flirting w...
PAUL JERRARD
We're all flirting with that line and when you step over that line, it's NASCAR's job to call you ou...
JIMMIE JOHNSON
Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Holy fudge tits.
SIDNEY BRISTOL
When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.
S.N. GOENKA
I don't know what flirting is, really. Sometimes in women, friendliness comes across as flirting...
RITA ORA
I dont understand flirting.
ANUSHKA SHARMA
We're certainly going to be flirting with freezing on both days.
SCOTT KELLY
Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary ...
WILD THING
Meat-fetishiser that I was, I used to find willed vegetarianism inexplicable. It was one thing to be...
NEEL MUKHERJEE
He's been flirting with tendonitis [in his elbow] all season.
DICK ADAMS
It’s not lying, it’s flirting.
NEIL STRAUSS
It takes madness to find out madness.
LADY GREGORY
This event could not have come at a worse time for the economy. We were already flirting with recess...
DAVID JONES
We've been flirting with this for a while and this time it bit us. Yeah, they shot the ball well, bu...
MIKE D'ANTONI
Or maybe spring is the season of love and fall the season of mad lust. Spring for flirting but fall ...
ELIZABETH COHEN
In one phone call, you're whole life changes. We dropped the whole baby thing. Thankfully I was at t...
AIMEE JOHNSON
He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and m...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.
LINDSAY LOHAN
I thought girls would be impressed because I had read a big dictionary. I guess I thought it would g...
LIZ SMITH
Flirting is the art of keeping intimacy at a safe distance.
SABINA SESSELMANN
Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.
PAUL BOURGET
Considering where prices are now, flirting with their record level of August 2005 (70.85 dollars a b...
FRANCIS PERRIN
Crew chiefs try to find advantages. It's a deal where you try to massage the gray areas. We're all f...
JIMMIE JOHNSON
I do not know for sure if he's looking or flirting. But, I have an opinion - Gore remains a headline...
DONNA BRAZILE
You have to watch out from mentally flirting with something you did for 22 years [and] being nostalg...
PAT RILEY
I think that you are going to be flirting with that number back and forth. I think good traders, on ...
RALPH ACAMPORA
I do not know for sure if he's looking or flirting.
DONNA BRAZILE
Rafe didn't just flirt-he charmed girls right up to the point where they fell for him, then he chang...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG
Did you get checked out?”
“Yeah, by a hot blond who sat in the corner of the bar and made ...
DARYNDA JONES
That sounds almost practiced, James Carstairs. How many girls have you made swoon with that observat...
CASSANDRA CLARE
Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of t...
FEDERICA MONTSENY
We'll be flirting with freezing each morning into early next week.
DANIEL HUCKABY
The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1...
MARY QUANT
If I saw my friend's boyfriend flirting with someone else, I would definitely talk to him about ...
LAURA MARANO
Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
HELEN ROWLAND
Flirting is funny. And it's awkward and weird.
HANNAH SIMONE
Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most consta...
WILLIAM SAROYAN
In the face of madness, rationality was powerless.
LIU CIXIN
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kin...
BRIAN ENO
Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but...
HERMAN MELVILLE
I was mad at the pitch before being called a strike, I was mad I swung at that, and then he hung me ...
LARRY WALKER
That's call reverse, craziness and madness (Kill Game 2016).
DEYTH BANGER
When he hit the ball, the first thing that I did was freeze. The second thing that I did was take a ...
CARLOS BELTRAN
He started off the year, and everything was fine. Next thing, he was in the hospital.
ALEX FIGERT
I'm much happier talking with people than I am flirting with them.
ANNE HATHAWAY
Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way s...
JON RONSON
When I made the call, it was painful, but it was the right thing to do. He deserved it.
BRIAN SCHMETZER
One thing was on my mind the whole time: the mud pit. Plus, it was hot, and I was ready for a little...
CHRIS PHILLIPS
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
It should have been done when this whole thing started. Listen to her.
CHUCK HAGEL
I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.
FELICITY KENDAL
It is a bizarre thing because I was the only one who was found guilty when the whole of the French e...
GEORGE SOROS
For example, there's one guy who is totally flirting with this woman and has no idea that it's his w...
STEVE HOFFMAN
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream a...
WALT DISNEY COMPANY
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream a...
WALT DISNEY
Madness breeds madness.
DAN BROWN
His flight was madness: when our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Each of the CDs prior to 'Flirting With Twilight' were more like roller-coaster rides.
KURT ELLING
Marcus turned his back to her. He feared that if he saw her face, it might weaken his resolve. Love ...
JENNIFER MCKEITHEN
anger is a short time time madness...
AVINASHKUMAR PILLAI
The plane had already taken off but suddenly it started shaking and banked steeply to the left and t...
ROHADI SITEPU
Facebook is flirting with big business, hunting for more money. It is selling you out -- and won't s...
LILY CHATTERJEE
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse.
WALT DISNEY
Love is madness, and madness is pain. So please; drive me insane with pain.
ENRIQUE VEGA
Jack Taylor was a private investigator in Galway, which seemed like madness. I used lots of Galway-i...
KEN BRUEN
Sympathy once more reveals its limits when faced with madness.
JOSé ALANIZ
I lay there with my mind running amuck, on the brink of madness. And somehow, gradually, early Sunda...
JOHN MARSDEN
Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your ba...
EMINEM
Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort ...
PAUL WESTERBERG
And Something's odd - within -That person that I was - And this One - do not feel the same - Could i...
EMILY DICKINSON
Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources
ARISTOTLE
The gold price is now flirting with critical support levels ($532-$535), and it faces a possible sho...
JON NADLER
The gold price is now flirting with critical support levels ($532-$535), and it faces a possible sho...
JON NADLER
I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.
J.K. ROWLING

More Rohinton Mistry

Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. How...
ROHINTON MISTRY
And the further they go, the more they'll remember, they can take it from me.
ROHINTON MISTRY
Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder
ROHINTON MISTRY
Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.
ROHINTON MISTRY
Zoroastrianism is about the opposition of good and evil. For the triumph of good, we have to make a ...
ROHINTON MISTRY
You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have t...
ROHINTON MISTRY
Flirting with madness is one thing. But when madness starts flirting back, its time to call the whol...
ROHINTON MISTRY
Does it stand, but not straight enough? Is there a bend in the tool? Leaning left like the Marxist-L...
ROHINTON MISTRY
But the artist began to have misgivings as the wall underwent its transformation. Bigger than any pa...
ROHINTON MISTRY
Multilate. Ha Ha Ha,' said Nusswan, avuncular and willing to pretend it was a clever joke. 'Its all ...
ROHINTON MISTRY
But it was an unrefrigerated world. And everything ended badly.
ROHINTON MISTRY
The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake
ROHINTON MISTRY
democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion
ROHINTON MISTRY
The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and...
ROHINTON MISTRY
I've done lots of jobs. Right now, I'm a hair collector."

"That's good", said Ishvar tent...
ROHINTON MISTRY
Maneck studied beggermaster's excessive chatter, his attempt to hide his heartache. Why did human do...
ROHINTON MISTRY
How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness
ROHINTON MISTRY
Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.
ROHINTON MISTRY
Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it w...
ROHINTON MISTRY
Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness ...
ROHINTON MISTRY
If time were a bolt of cloth,” said Om, “I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary n...
ROHINTON MISTRY
What sense did the world make? Where was God, the Bloody Fool? Did He have no notion of fair and unf...
ROHINTON MISTRY
لماذا يتصرف النَّاس على هذا النحو بمشاعرهم؟ سواء أكانت...
ROHINTON MISTRY
بالرغم من كل شيء، ليست حياتنا سوى سلسلة من الحوادث، سلس...
ROHINTON MISTRY
Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure....
ROHINTON MISTRY
There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.
ROHINTON MISTRY
…God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and...
ROHINTON MISTRY
إنه ذهب بعيدًا. عندما تبتعد إلى هذا الحدّ، تتغيّر. المس�...
ROHINTON MISTRY
What an unreliable thing is time--when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a...
ROHINTON MISTRY
If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as on...
ROHINTON MISTRY
...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there wil...
ROHINTON MISTRY
Let me tell you a secret: there is no such thing as an uninteresting life
One day you must tell...
ROHINTON MISTRY
After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string o...
ROHINTON MISTRY
But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. M...
ROHINTON MISTRY
...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance ...
ROHINTON MISTRY
The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.
ROHINTON MISTRY
The pavement artist thought for a bit, then agreed. 'I can start tomorrow morning.'

'Good...
ROHINTON MISTRY
World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of ...
ROHINTON MISTRY
The future was becoming past, everything vanished into the void, and reaching back to grasp for some...
ROHINTON MISTRY
Humans define perfection, I therefore define myself as perfect.
KAILESH MISTRY
God in any form isn't there to give you what you need, he or she is there to help you believe you ca...
KAILESH MISTRY
These were contested issues, but they agreed to the union's interpretation.
ARNAVAZ MISTRY
For clarification purposes not for negotiation. Negotiation is done.
ARNAVAZ MISTRY
They have backed down on everything they agreed to.
ARNAVAZ MISTRY
Always shoot for the stars, sure you will miss sometimes but you are always bound to hit something.
KAILESH MISTRY
Therefore, the Indian government could propose that the 45 percent import duty applies only to non-G...
DORAB MISTRY
Increases in personal disposable income boosted consumer spending and that in turn contributed to th...
MAGAN MISTRY