Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elie Wiesel

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

Elie Wiesel

Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.

Elie Wiesel

If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?

Elie Wiesel

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.

Elie Wiesel

Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.

Elie Wiesel

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

Elie Wiesel

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

Edward P. Jones

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.

Edward Seaga

His voice was an omnipresent cry in our electronic world. His sharp features, majestic looks, and prancing style a vivid etching on the landscape of our minds. Bob Marley was never seen. He was an experience which left an indelible imprint with each encounter. Such a man cannot be erased from the mind. He is part of the collective consciousness of the nation.

Edward R. Murrow

We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.

Edward R. Murrow

Most of them [American politicians] are men of undoubted charm, ability, and incredible energy, and yet too often they lack purpose or appetite for anything beyond their own careers. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

Edward R. Murrow

A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.

Edward R. Murrow

Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.

Bob Newhart

The reason I'm a psychologist is based in part on my telephone routines. Much of my humor comes out of reaction to what other people are saying. A psychologist is a man who listens, who is sympathetic.

Blake Shelton

Michael Buble is seriously my favorite entertainer. Have you ever seen the guy in concert? He's hilarious. Women love him. Guys want to meet him. He has everything that I wish I could do onstage. And I'm guessin' he's a good-lookin' guy - although he's not one of 'People' magazine's sexiest men.

Blake Shelton

Never touch another man's button.

Bo Burnham

For some comedians it feels so cool to be like: 'I'll say anything, man!'. I'm not quite there yet.

Bo Burnham

When I see someone filming me, I don't usually think, 'No, man, don't put this up online!' I'd think, 'Hey man, you don't get to go to shows very often, put down the camera and enjoy it!' I love going to theatre and to shows so much.

Bo Burnham

I remember being superyoung, like nine or ten years old, and thinking, 'Man, I wonder what famous people eat for breakfast. They must have some special kind of cereal!' My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.

Billy Idol

When the other man has none, you don't need a gun.

Billy Eichner

There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.

Billy Joel

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

Billy Joel

There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.

Billy Joel

There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.

Bill Richardson

Few needs are more pressing, or more deserving of our attention, than taking care of the men and women of the U.S. armed forces.

Bill Johnson

If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.

Beverley Nichols

We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

Betty White

I've always liked older men. They're just more attractive to me. Of course, at my age there aren't that many left!

Betty White

I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. If I sound old-fashioned, it's because I'm as old as I am! But it's just polite.

Beyonce Knowles

Men and women balance each other out and we have to get to a point where we are comfortable with appreciating each other.

Bernie Mac

You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, every time that microphone comes on, the Mac Man seek and destroy.

Bernie Mac

I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.

Bernie Mac

When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.