Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bram Stoker

Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.

Bram Stoker

A brave man's hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.

Bram Stoker

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.

Bram Stoker

Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards

Bram Stoker

All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

Bram Stoker

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

Booth Tarkington

They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: "When I was a boy!" It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.

Booth Tarkington

Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

Boris Becker

I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.

Booker T. Washington

The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.

Booker T. Washington

You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.

Booker T. Washington

To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.'

Booker T. Washington

There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

Booker T. Washington

Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred

Booker T. Washington

No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.

Booker T. Washington

If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

Booker T. Washington

Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.

Bobby Womack

The bravest man in the universe Is the one who has forgiven first.

Bobby Sands

All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a freeman can’t defy. There is no source or foreign force can break one man who knows that his free will no thing can kill … and from that, freedom grows.

Bobby Robson

He's the only man I know who could start an argument with himself. (on Craig Bellamy)

Bobby Seale

A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.

Bob Edwards

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.

Bob Dole

You know, a better man for a better America. That's sort of our slogan.

Bob Dylan

We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face.

Bob Dylan

Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know.

Bob Dylan

How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?

Bob Dylan

There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.

Bob Dylan

Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.

Bob Dylan

How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Bob Dylan

You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe But you're back were you belong

Bob Dylan

The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

Bob Dylan

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must keep it satisfied.

Bob Dylan

Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.