Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I am baffled by men. When they want me, I don't want them; when I want them, they don't want me.

There are men in town who could play this role. The problem is, they didn't audition!

Daniel Burnham

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.

David Millar

Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world?

Ho Chi Minh

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

It's always the same - all men and women want to be sexy.

Elie Metchnikoff

Most of the centenarians whom I have been able to see have been so defective mentally that all that can be studied in them are the physical qualities and functions.

Meryl Streep

Without question, of the heterosexual men that I've spoken to over the years, that's usually - they say, you know, my favorite thing you've ever done was Linda or Sophie. And they were a particular kind of very feminine, recessive kind of personality. So they fell in love with her, but they didn't feel the story through her body.

Meryl Streep

I really think there's a difference between how men critics see things than how women tend to. And I don't want to make that - it's not a generality and I don't want to say that, but I just feel - I know I do the same thing. There are certain things that I just am not that interested in. Certain kinds of films - I just don't enter them.

Meryl Streep

The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.

Meryl Streep

Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.

Meryl Streep

Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.

Meryl Streep

I think it is typical for many men to have problems when their wives make more money then they do, or when their wives are higher on the corporate ladder than they find themselves. I think that often is an issue.

Doris Lessing

You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous and self-indulgent, like the relationships between women when there are no men around. They make each other presents, and they have little feasts, and nobody punishes anyone else. This is the female way of going along when there are no men about or when men are not in the ascendant.

Bjork

I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors.

Dogen

Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.

Benjamin Haydon

Men who have reached and passed 45, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.

Malcolm Forbes

Men who never get carried away should be.

Ada Yonath

I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in these terms.

Were there no fools, there would be no wise men

Sonam Kapoor

I am trying to be a girl who is real and has an opinion. Might say stupid things but not scared of men, and for me that's important.

Bronagh Gallagher

The truth is that I am a very independent person and I've always been. That probably damaged some of my relationships with men.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

Hanna Rosin

Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.

Kyle Calder

Two solid periods, then two mental lapses. You can't do that. This will be a tough one to swallow the next two weeks.

Every time I talk to people they mention the 2004-05 season.

Bill Rodgers

But running is a year-round sport and you train for all conditions, so you sort of have to be mentally prepared, physically sort of used to it.

Henry David Thoreau

But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.

Piers Morgan

Most of the men that sue in Hollywood are all about 5' 2'. They wake up every day, know they're tiny and feel very angry about it, so they go out and sue people.

Coco Chanel

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

Chief Joseph

I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.

We have mentors in a whole range of ages.