Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrei Tarkovsky

Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards

Andrei Tarkovsky

Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of mastery of the world, it has an infinite number of facets, the vincula that connect man with his vital activity; and even if the path towards knowledge is unending, no step that takes man nearer to a full understanding of the meaning of his existence can be too small to count.

Andrei Tarkovsky

Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.

Andrei Tarkovsky

Of course life has no point. If it had, man would not be free.

Anchee Min

Do you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little life, and somehow managed by the power of his wayward brain to lay hold upon millions of human lives!

Chuck Palahniuk

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.

Chuck Palahniuk

Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted

Chuck Palahniuk

Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.

Chuck Palahniuk

I'm fascinated by the whole issue of arousal addiction, which seems to be mostly a problem for young men.

Chuck Hagel

Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today.

Chuck Jones

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

Chuck Brown

When I was a young man, I shined the shoes of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! Music was just everywhere like that. And in my family, everyone could play something, and if they couldnt play, they could sing.

Chuck D.

Never have so many men treated women like our foes. They call 'em hoes, but they might as well call them foes, 'cause you are totally against the existence of somebody who should live their life as an equal human being. If not, any man knows, it's like we're not equal. You know, women are usually a little better than us.

Chuck D.

I know I am judged unfairly by my physical characteristics and ostracized because of that so I say, "Yes, I'm a black man."

Christopher Wren

Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind of Man, void of all Uncertainty; and all other Discourses participate more or less of Truth according as their Subjects are more or less capable of Mathematical Demonstration.

Christy Mathewson

No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.

Christopher Nolan

We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.

Christopher Walken

It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things.

Christopher Paolini

After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end. - Saphira

Christopher Paolini

My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. Men have tried to breach it before, but I've learned to defend it vigorously, for I am only safe with my innermost thoughts.

Christopher Paolini

A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed any moment and there's not a blasted thing I can do about it.

Christopher Paolini

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

Christopher Paolini

Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do

He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.

If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven

Christopher McDougall

Sometimes,' she said, 'it takes a woman to bring out the best in a man.

Christopher Meloni

In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.

Christopher Morley

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

Christopher Morley

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Christopher Morley

It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.

Christopher Morley

Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.

Christopher Morley

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

Christopher Morley

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.