Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cormac McCarthy

The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon the ground before them and they watched the fire which does contain within it something of men themselves inasmuch as they are less without it and are divided from their origins and are exiles. For each fire is all fires, and the first fire and the last ever to be.

Cormac McCarthy

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.

Cormac McCarthy

Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

Colin Baker

I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.

Colin Hanks

I guess maybe someone at 'Dexter' saw the 'Mad Men' stuff and thought, 'He can do this.'

Colin Hanks

Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.

Colin Firth

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.

Colin Firth

I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: `Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.

Cliff Burton

These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives

Cliff Floyd

I couldn't go over there, man. Once I saw the blood. I'm not good with blood. .. It choked me up for a minute. We were laughing and giggling one minute, the next minute, a man's down on the ground, both of them.

Cleopatra

Is he a good man?" "Define 'good'.

Clement Freud

I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.

Clement Attlee

I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.

Clement Attlee

Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.

Clement Attlee

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.

Cleveland Amory

People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have a man of substance in there, you have the makings of a first-class funeral.

Cleveland Amory

Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.

Cleveland Amory

I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a mans man.

Claude Monet

What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Tell me now in what hidden way isLady Flora the lovely Roman?Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais,Neither of them the fairer woman?Where is Echo, beheld of no man,Only heard on river and mere-She whose beauty was more than human?-But where are the snows of yester-year?

Daphne du Maurier

If there’s one thing that makes a man sick, it’s to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand.

Daphne du Maurier

Dead men tell no tales, Mary.

Dante Alighieri

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

Dante Alighieri

I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.

Dante Alighieri

I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous.

Dante Alighieri

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

Dante Alighieri

In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.

Dante Alighieri

A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.

Dante Alighieri

O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

Dante Alighieri

O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.

Dante Alighieri

If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

Dante Alighieri

Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.