Man Quotes
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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The man for me has to have his own life or be as busy as me.
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Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.
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When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.
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All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.
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My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
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Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.
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I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
