Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Gaylord Simpson

Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind

George Farquhar

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

George Farquhar

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

George Farquhar

Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.

George Farquhar

Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.

George Gissing

To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.

George Gershwin

Porgy is...an interesting example of what can be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen, a man who should never have attempted it has written a work that has a considerable power.

George Galloway

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

George Gilder

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes-it liberates young women to pursue married men.

George Foreman

All I've ever tried to tell anyone is that I'm not a black man or a white man or anything else. All I've ever been was an American.

Jon Lovitz

How much blow can Charlie Sheen do? Enough to kill two and a half men.

Jon Lovitz

But Opera Man, I go, 'Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?' Because I could sing fake opera pretty good.

Jon Landau

Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is becoming increasingly obvious with every additional release that he is a very talented man.

Jon Foreman

The beauty of what I read in the gospel is the intimacy of what we're called to, that there's no middle man.

Jojo Moyes

I'm not going to try and change you mind." "If you're here, you accept it's my choice. This is the first thing I've been in control of since the accident." "I know." And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak...

Jon Bon Jovi

The spirits, they intoxicate me. I watched them infiltrate my soul. They try to say it's too late for me. Once I was promised absolution, there's only one solution for my sins. And I blame this world, for making a good man evil. Now I ain't getting into heaven, if the devil has his way.

Johnny Weir

Anytime you get men in glitter, it's a flamboyant occasion!

Johnny Weir

I grew my beard out a little bit just to show that, indeed, I am a man.

Johnnie Cochran

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

Johnny Carson

If God didn't want man to hunt, He wouldn't have given us plaid shirts.

Johnny Carson

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.

Johnny Cash

Understand your man, meditate on it.

Johnny Cash

There's a man going 'round taking names / And he decides who to free and who to blame / Everybody won't be treated all the same / There'll be a golden ladder reaching down / When the Man comes around.

Johnny Cash

I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

Johnny Cash

Id like to wear a rainbow every day, and tell the world that everything is o.k. But Ill try to carry off a little darkness on my back. Until things are brighter, Im the Man in Black.

Lynn Shelton

Hmm, can I be obvious and say there is probably a double standard for male vs. female directors? Sadly, I think that's actually the case. And it probably stems from the fact that there are proportionately so many fewer women directors than men ones that each project is perhaps more closely scrutinized for its content.

Luis Barragan

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

Luis Bunuel

I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.

Luigi Pirandello

Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music.

Ludwig van Beethoven

He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .

Ludwig van Beethoven

I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.