Man Quotes
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Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!
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The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called 'Mystery Man,' and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn't.
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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
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Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.
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My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.
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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
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I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
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Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.
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In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.
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If I got something to say or do to a man, I'm going to look that man in the eye and tell him what is going to happen. That's just me now.
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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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My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.
