Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cesare Pavese

Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?

Cesare Pavese

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

Cesare Pavese

No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Catherine Fisher

Finn smiled ruefully. "I'm a Prisoner, old man. Just like you.

Catherine Fisher

Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.

Catherine Hicks

The image I gravitate towards are spunky women, women who talk back.

Catherine Bell

I understand men much better than most women I know.

Catherine Hardwicke

The truth is, most of those female stories that are contending for Oscars are directed by men. Let's be honest. I looked at the 44 Oscar contenders in Variety that someone wrote up - there was not one directed by a woman. All the ones that were getting an Oscar pitch with the money and everything behind them were by men.

Catherine Hardwicke

Most of the female-directed films, if they got distribution, would have fewer dollars to support the film and play in fewer theaters than the men. Because the female-directed films go to smaller companies. So the gap starts widening.

Catherine Deneuve

Men are good but women are magic.

Catherine Deneuve

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

Cartier Martin

I don't know nothing about that. I'm not the man upstairs.

Cary Fukunaga

All I kept thinking about was, "Man, he's so relaxed onstage! I'm never going to be that relaxed! I'm clearly not meant to be in front of the camera. I'm really not meant for anything but behind the camera."

Carter Glass

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

Carter G. Woodson

I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

Carter G. Woodson

It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.

Carter G. Woodson

If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.

Carter G. Woodson

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

Carter G. Woodson

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a lawsuit. It would do the cause much good. Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

Carter G. Woodson

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

Carole Lombard

A woman has just as much right in this world as a man and can get along in it just as well if she puts her mind to it.

Carole King

You make me feel like a natural man

Carole King

You can't talk to a man, with a shotgun in his hand.

Carolina Herrera

A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.

Carolina Herrera

You cannot forget about your femininity. You don't have to compete with men in that respect.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.

Camilo Jose Cela

There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.