The Man Quotes

Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.

All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.

We could get kinky and see how bats and rats make love, he suggested in a whisper, warm breath against her neck. You are a sick man, Jacques. Very, very sick.

I think that every man is afraid of his wife.

In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.

What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.

They are so busy, Julia, trying to help the world that they've forgotten how to help themselves. They've forgotten how to be happy, and it is a happy man or woman who helps the world most.

For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

Ken has three kids. I have three kids. The first movie was basically the story of our lives. Every man is kind of a villain until he then has kids. And then, they soften us up.

I did learn a great deal about my husband but I also learned something about myself: I made a wise choice. I think he's a good man.

Having a strong father, I wanted an older man.

The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.

There was a day on the set of Iron Man where I said, "I remember some of this stuff. I definitely had some Iron Man books. But, S.H.I.E.L.D. is a little bit of a weak spot for me."

Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.

This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.

The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.

Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.

The head of the AFL-CIO endorsed John Kerry, saying, 'The time has come to come behind one man, one leader, one candidate.' Then he said, 'And until we find that man, we will endorse John Kerry.'

The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.

The superior man accords with the course of the Mean. Though he may be all unknown, unregarded by the world, he feels no regret - It is only the sage who is able for this.

And me I'm in the bathroom crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man when you're scared, just like a little kid.

Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.

Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.

They say give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. But teach a man to fish and he'll get his own show on the Discovery Channel.

Now is the time for all good men to run like hell.

There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man.

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll evolve to become so skilled at fishing he destroys the ocean and kills every last fish.

The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of thousands of years ago in what is now France.

We're not used to seeing movies, especially with physical action, when it isn't the man who comes in to save the day.

You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.

One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.

I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.

Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.

Every man has the basis of good. Not only human beings, you can find it among animals and insects, for instance, when we treat a dog or horse lovingly.

Yeah. You've seen The Sun today; I've got myself a big house, settled down. Apart from the odd night out with the New Fathers' Club, I'm a family man now.

Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.

Every country my country, and every man my brother.

The Elephant Man claimed his head was big because, it's so full of dreams. Actually, it's because his skull was shaped like a turkey.

America is not a white man's republic.

A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life

You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along.

I'm not just a fan of the really restored ones, the shiny ones. But I like the working man's cars.

I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.

[Meeting Mandela] was the highlight of my career; to meet such a great man and a strong man and such a passionate man about sport and life will always stay with me.