Charles Addams famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
-- Charles Addams

#Spiders #Normal #Chaos
Look at her -- I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way -- what bliss.
-- Charles Addams

#Looks #Way #Bliss
To live without you, only that would be torture." "A day alone, only that would be death.
-- Charles Addams

#Would Be #Without You #Torture
It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.
-- Charles Addams

#Dog #People #Childhood
Child of woe is wane and delicate... sensitive and on the quiet side, she loves the picnics and outings to the underground caverns... a solemn child, prim in dress and, on the whole, pretty lost... secretive and imaginative, poetic, seems underprivileged and given to occasional tantrums... has six toes on one foot...
-- Charles Addams

#Children #Feet #Caverns
A day alone, only that would be death.
-- Charles Addams

#Would Be
If you've wrecked one train, you've wrecked them all.
-- Charles Addams

#Train
Look at her - I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way - what bliss.
-- Charles Addams

#Looks #Way #Bliss

Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.
If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.
A spider web of 'patriots for profit', operating from the highest positions of special trust and confidence, have successfully circumvented our constitutional system in pursuit of a New World Order.
I'm the Bernie Madoff of this spider.
I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How could you fear anything more than death? Everything else offered moments of escape: a paralyzed man could still read Dickens; a man in the grips of dementia might have flashes of the must absurd beauty.
The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified.
For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.
When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.
A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."
Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

Charles Addams famous quotes

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