George Chapman Quotes

His deeds inimitable, like the seaThat shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tractsNor prints of precedent for poor men's facts.

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• I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Men
  • High
  • Think

• The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Women

• While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Time
  • Good
  • Others

• You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Men
  • You
  • Serving

• Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'

  

  Cara Buono
  • Men
  • Mad
  • Being

• It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Men
  • Pay
  • Reasonable

• I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Men
  • Want
  • Black

• In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men
  • May
  • Truth

• I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Life
  • Men
  • Country

• Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Men
  • Benefits
  • Feminism

• Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll take anything, really.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Men
  • Red
  • Flowers

• I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?

  

  Mae West
  • Men
  • Me
  • Needs

• It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

  

  Mae West
  • Life
  • Men
  • My Life

• Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • Men
  • Children
  • Mother

• But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Work
  • Men
  • Hands

• There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Men
  • May
  • Man

• Choir of Men: There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed. Choir of Women: And yet you are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily. (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Men
  • Women
  • She

• Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case.

  

  Emmeline Pankhurst
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Good

• I don't miss directing at all, and I don't miss screenwriting either because somebody's always telling you to do something different.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Different
  • Miss
  • Screenwriting

• Shhh,” he murmured against her mouth. “Don’t talk. Don’t think. Just feel.

  

  Elizabeth Hoyt
  • Thinking
  • Feels
  • Mouths

• His deeds inimitable, like the seaThat shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tractsNor prints of precedent for poor men's facts.

  

  George Chapman
  • Men