Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brent Weeks

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

Bret Easton Ellis

I think basically most men are misogynistic.

Brand Blanshard

When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.

Brand Blanshard

Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.

Brandi Chastain

I played mostly games like Asteroids and Pac-Man. Today, when I go into an arcade, the games are much more difficult and complex. I don't think I could even play some of the video games that are out there today.

Branch Rickey

Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.

Branch Rickey

Branch Rickey made me a better man.

Branch Rickey

There was never a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than (Jackie) Robinson.

Branch Rickey

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

Bram Stoker

She is one of God's women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.

Bram Stoker

This man belongs to me, I want him!

Bram Stoker

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.

Bram Stoker

No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.

Bram Stoker

Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.

Bram Stoker

A brave man's hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.

Bram Stoker

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.

Bram Stoker

Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards

Bram Stoker

All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

Bram Stoker

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

Booth Tarkington

They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: "When I was a boy!" It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.

Booth Tarkington

Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

Boris Becker

I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.

Booker T. Washington

The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.

Booker T. Washington

You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.

Booker T. Washington

To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.'

Booker T. Washington

There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

Booker T. Washington

Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred

Booker T. Washington

No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.

Booker T. Washington

If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

Booker T. Washington

Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.

Bobby Womack

The bravest man in the universe Is the one who has forgiven first.

Bobby Sands

All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a freeman can’t defy. There is no source or foreign force can break one man who knows that his free will no thing can kill … and from that, freedom grows.

Bobby Robson

He's the only man I know who could start an argument with himself. (on Craig Bellamy)