Orson Welles Quotes
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.Orson Welles
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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
Karin Slaughter -
This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
Walter Reisch -
I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
Gary Lineker -
Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
Edmond de Goncourt -
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
Omar N. Bradley -
It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
Ian McShane -
We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
Lady Gaga -
It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
J. B. Smoove -
It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
Abbe Pierre -
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Samuel Johnson -
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
Daisy Bates
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant -
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
Samuel Butler -
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
Earl Warren -
The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
Salmon P. Chase -
No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.
Orison Swett Marden -
The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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A man is nothing but breath and shadow.
Sophocles -
I'll never forget the modelling shoot I did in the Bahamas on a pink sand beach at Harbour Island. It felt like I'd just landed in paradise; it was so beautiful.
Olga Kurylenko -
Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; — the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver.
Anthony Trollope -
… even scarier is why people have stopped thinking global warming is real. One major reason, pollsters say, is, 'we had a very cold, snowy winter'. Which is like saying the sun might not be real because last night it got dark.
Bill Maher -
A gentleman considers justice to be essential in everything. He practices it according to the principles of propriety. He brings it forth in modesty and faithfully completes it. This is indeed a gentleman.
Confucius -
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Orson Welles