Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clive Barker

A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.

Clive Barker

I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left the end of our story untold. That mystery is troubling to us. How could it be otherwise? Without the final part, we think, how are we to make sense of all that went before: which is to say, our lives? So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.

Clint Eastwood

Men must know their limitations.

Dylan Moran

A man does not know how he came by the half a pie he is holding in his hand!

e. e. cummings

for whenever men are right they are not young

e. e. cummings

a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat

e. e. cummings

that strictly(and how)scienti fic land of supernod where freedom is compulsory and only man is god.

e. e. cummings

The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.

e. e. cummings

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

e. e. cummings

great men burn bridges before they come to them

E. B. White

Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.

E. B. White

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.

E. B. White

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

E. B. White

When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.

E. B. White

I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended. There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.

E. B. White

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

E. B. White

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

E. B. White

In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.

Duane Chapman

Six men can carry you or 12 men can judge you. You decide!

Drew Lachey

Man does not cease to play because he grows old, he grows old because he ceases to play.

Douglas Hurd

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

Douglas Horton

Man worships because God lays His hand to the dust of our experience, and man miraculously becomes a living soul - and knows it and wants to worship.

Andrew Rannells

I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh.

Andrew Schneider

What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing.

Andre Breton

How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is condemned to it, who cannot generally escape it, but it is not the burden of his labor that disposes me in his favor, it is - it can only be - the vigor of his protest against it.

Andre Breton

The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows

Andre Breton

We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.

Andre Gide

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness?

Andre Gide

I do not love men: I love what devours them.

Andre Gide

The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.

Andre Gide

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

Andre Gide

Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.

Andre Gide

Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery....a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you.