Francis Picabia Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
-
Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.
-
All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
-
Men are what their mothers made them.
-
It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.
-
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
-
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
-
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
-
We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.
-
Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
-
When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.
-
If I had my life to live all over again, I really think I would have been a fit person. Looking around me, I realise that the men and women who walked and ran and swam and played sport look better and feel better than the rest of us.
-
I was taught to think outside the box. Before my grandfather was one of the original Mad Men, he and a group of other Air Force Intelligence officers formalized brainstorming as a problem solving technique. He taught the concept that creativity can be taught at Buffalo University. My dad invented toys. My mom was a photographer.
-
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
-
Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun.
-
When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
-
I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, but I've played 'men's men,' if you will, characters that are simmering rage and calculated. There's a trend not to play anything that is opposed to that.
-
I think I just love films where men have complete breakdowns.
-
Note the men’s fear that if they reported this to the authorities, not only would they not be believed, they would be ridiculed.
-
A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.
-
Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.
-
There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
-
Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.
-
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
