Apostolos Doxiadis Quotes
Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!
Quotes to Explore
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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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.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
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100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Though the demonetisation move should be welcomed, govt should have planned well in advance to ensure that no common man suffer.
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In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.
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I should probably bequeath the copyrights to my screenplay for Spies Like Us, just in case.
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Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
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Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!
