Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

For the man who thought he was Man there is no salvation.

Isabella Blow

If you don't wear lipstick, I can't talk to you. You need to have lips - they are important for getting men.

Isadora Duncan

It is unheard-of, uncivilized barbarism that any woman should still be forced to bear such monstrous torture. It should be remedied. It should be stopped. It is simply absurd that, with our modern science, painless childbirth does not exist as a matter of course.... I tremble with indignation when I think ofthe unspeakable egotism and blindness of men of science who permit such atrocities when they can be remedied.

Isadora Duncan

Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love!

Irwin Shaw

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House

Irving Stone

Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.

Irving Stone

Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

Irving Stone

There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

Irving Stone

Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?

Irving Stone

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

Irving Stone

Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.

Illeana Douglas

I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.

Illeana Douglas

I know in this day and age, when you meet men, they often want to be boys. They dress like boys. And it's very confusing. I can't offer any solution except to make a movie about it.

Jack Levine

I am primarily concerned with the condition of man,

Jack McDevitt

So long as men and women are free, no one is safe. People will be in danger because others can't operate vehicles responsibly or shoot straight. Because physicians are sometimes incompetent and lawyers dishonest. But most of all they will be in danger from ideas. It is the price we willingly pay to be free. Nor would we have it any other way.

Jack McDevitt

Courage is perhaps our most admirable trait. The man, or woman, who possesses it is able to plunge ahead, despite dangers, despite warnings, despite hazards of all kinds, to attack the task at hand. Often, it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

Jack McDevitt

Man has always seen himself the peak of creation. The part of the universe that thinks. The purpose for it all. It's no doubt a gratifying view, but the universe may have a different opinion.

Jack Ma

I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.

Jack London

A man with a club is a law-maker.

Jack London

A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.

Jack London

You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly

Jack London

Man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts, a myriad selves, a continual becoming but never being, a will-of-the-wisp flitting of ghosts in ghostland.

Jack London

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

Jack Nicklaus

I think he [Tiger Woods] is a determined young man who really wants to play.

Jack Nicholson

And this, incidentally, is my thumbnail sketch of American marriage: A woman sees a man; she likes him. Now she jumps on this thing and rides it to some kind of standstill. Then she changes it and trains it, and to the exact degree that she's able to do this, she disrespects him.

Jack Nicholson

Never rub another man's rhubarb.

Jack Nicholson

If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.

Jack Nicholson

I think it's good if a man gives a woman some time to herself because I think we all need that and we can all benefit from that. It doesn't imply a rejection of the other person, just a sense that because we do have our separate identities, sometimes you have to be less involved in another person's life or need to have that other person be less involved in your life.

Jack Nicholson

Everyone pretty much acknowledges that he's the man, and I still feel that underrates him.

Jack Nicholson

Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.

Jack Kingston

So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.

Jack Kingston

There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

Jack Huston

I think I've become the go-to mustache man. It works in period pieces. Modern-day mustaches are probably creepy. But I get compliments - everyone's like, 'Wow, love the 'stache, dude.