Man Quotes
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I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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Go West, young man.
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Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.
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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
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The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion.
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I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.
