George Colman Quotes
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In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Samuel Butler -
Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
Taslima Nasrin -
There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
J. C. Ryle -
Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!
Eddie Marsan -
As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
Natalia Vodianova
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. Wells -
In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
Verne Troyer -
I encourage all men - and all women who love their men - to make sure to get out every year, from the age of 50 on, and have PSA and DRE tests. With early detection, you can have an early cure.
Mandy Patinkin -
Unlike straight men, who have the luxury of being slobs because women usually expect them to be, gay men - whether preppies, fashion victims, or jocks - are thought to be more obsessed with how they look because they dress for themselves and, consequently, for each other.
Lance Loud -
A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
Barack Obama -
My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.
Taylor Hackford
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It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.
Maggie Q -
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Men are separated by so many petty things.
Aaron Huey -
I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
Tanit Phoenix -
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde -
When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
Samuel Johnson
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It's very interesting what you don't care about.
Doris Lessing -
Courage mounteth with occasion.
William Shakespeare -
I did a series for teenagers and kids called S-Club 7 in LA for Fox Family Channel. And I did it because the children, everybody's children, they don't know who I am. They know I'm the-lady-in-the-movie-they-can't-see. And I was actually offended by that because I think I've done a lot of wonderful work.
Linda Blair -
'She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.' So must we all.
Hillary Clinton -
The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.
Bono U2 -
On their own merits modest men are dumb.
George Colman