Man Quotes
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Man, the creator of machines, is greater than the means of production. Man did not emerge from the process of evolution with the hammer, but with a distinctive brain. The human brain, itself a kind of “means of production” is more powerful than the most powerful machine.
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When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.
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In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.
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But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.
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Eventually I got the call for 'Iron Man,' and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room - it was videotaped, and I'm sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.
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For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
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I used to be a pretty good hit-and-run man when I played in the minors. I handled the bat well and could hit the ball to the right side of the infield. Nevertheless, I know that you often give the opposition an out on the hit-and-run play.
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A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.
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A man becomes a person thanks to the intellect.
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?
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To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
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I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.
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Do you smoke? Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.
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Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in the mean, and moderation is virtue. Every abiding place outside the bounds of moderation is only exile to the wise man.
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
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Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
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The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.
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Planning is thinking beforehand how something is to be made or done, and mixing imagination with the product - which in a broad sense makes all of us planners. The only difference is that some people get a license to get paid for thinking and the rest of us just contribute our good thoughts to our fellow man.
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He didn't whimper, he didn't cry, he didn't beg. He took it like a man.
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Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.
