Brian Patten Quotes

Isolation disfigures men Who think their separateness superior.

Brian Patten

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• All men would be tyrants if they could.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Men
  • Would
  • Tyrants

• But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Men
  • Remember
  • Giving

• If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.

  

  Jack Warner
  • Men
  • Want
  • Say

• In Europe, we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.

  

  Otto Bauer
  • Men
  • Character
  • Community

• There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Time
  • Work
  • Men

• When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Work
  • Men
  • Numbers

• Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

  

  Kin Hubbard
  • Men

• Washington newspaper men know everything.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Men

• I've always found men to be incredible allies, particularly with their perspective.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Men
  • Perspective

• The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the services were ended and left the house before the women and children, thus making sure the safe exit of the latter.

  

  Alice Morse Earle
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• For years, I was either referred to as a 'rubber-faced funny man' or 'the 'Men Behaving Badly' star.'

  

  Martin Clunes
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Star

• BUT, in terms of attractiveness, speaking in terms of physical aspects only I think that Argentinean, Italian, Mexican, and Spanish men are among the most attractive men.

  

  Alicia Machado
  • Men
  • Italian
  • Spanish

• Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

  

  Charlotte Whitton
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I think us gals need to stay in and just change the way it works, so men aren't being workaholics and avoiding life and relationships, and they can make films in a reasonable amount of time, so you can have a family and a life outside of work. And have more balanced, content-driven, enjoyable movies.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Backpacks are obtrusive. They're great for school kids and mountaineers, but a woman is supposed to look enticing and glamorous at night. They obscure one of a woman's most erogenous zones, the nape of her neck. I suppose they're good if you want to keep men away.

  

  Letitia Baldrige
  • Good
  • Great
  • Men

• Men pretend they don't like to be nagged, but they love it, really. It makes them feel wanted.

  

  Denise Van Outen
  • Men

• The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• All I know is the dark, the night underground. And that’s all there really is. That’s all there is to know, in the end. The silence, and the dark. You know everything, wizard. But I know one thing - the one true thing!

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • True
  • Night
  • Dark

• 'She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.' So must we all.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • She

• When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was - a script came along and I said, 'I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.' And so he didn't know the alphabet, even, for instance.

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Guy
  • Learning
  • Bird

• Isolation disfigures men Who think their separateness superior.

  

  Brian Patten
  • Men
  • Isolation
  • Separateness