Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Bowie

Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.

David Bowie

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

David Bowie

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

David Bowie

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

Dave Reichert

I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the people hit by Katrina through until the storm has truly calmed.

Dave Navarro

Men are much more agressive with their advances.

Dave Mustaine

I care more about what God knows than what man says.

David Niven

Isn’t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?

David Nicholls

She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man

David Nicholls

When I was an actor, I worked with lots of men who had a bit of success early on, who were very good looking, who suddenly made a bit of money and who felt no embarrassment - and nor should they have done - about having a good time.

Edward Zwick

I never thought about that ever throughout the entire course of my career about choosing a specific role because it would make me seem more man-like.

Edward Zwick

There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.

Edward Zwick

I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man.

Edwin Arnold

Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally.

William Temple

There is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth since all systems can be perverted by the selfishness of man. The Malvern Manifesto: Drawn up by a Conference of the Province of York, January 10, 1941; signed for the Conference by Temple, then Archbishop of York .

Abdullah Ibrahim

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

Abdus Salam

People either buy nuclear power, nuclear reactors from outside, and don't train their own men, or they just don't go into nuclear power at all, they are so afraid of it.

Abdus Salam

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

All down the ages we see how blood has stained the surface of the earth; but now a ray of greater light has come, man's intelligence is greater, spirituality is beginning to grow, and a time is surely coming when the religions of the world will be at peace. ...let us join together to hasten forward the Divine Cause of unity, until all humanity knows itself to be one family, joined together in love.

Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moralities, new capacities. New bounties, bestowals and perfections are awaiting and already descending upon him.

Man is under all conditons immersed in a sea of God's blessings. Therefore, be thou not hopeless under any circumstances, but rather be firm in thy hope

In some respects woman is superior to man. She is more tender-hearted, more receptive, her intuition is more intense.

Truthfulness is the foundation of all virtues of the world of humanity. Without truthfulness, progress and success in all the worlds of God are impossible for a soul. When this holy attribute is established in man, all the divine qualities will also become realized.

Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit

It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being...until ye change the world of man into the world of God.

Aaron Huey

Men are separated by so many petty things.

Aaron Hill

The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.

Aaron Hill

The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.

Aaron Hill

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.

Aaron Copland

A great symphony is a man-made Mississippi down which we irresistibly flow from the instant of our leave-taking to a long forseen destination.

Aaron Copland

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

Aaron Eckhart

It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.

Aaron Eckhart

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.