Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allen Ginsberg

Man’s usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. … Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells

Alistair Maclean

...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could be the bottom of the valley, the beginning of the long climb up the far slope, and when a man had once begun that climb he never looked back to that other side.

Alistair Cooke

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

Allan Bloom

These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.

Allan Bloom

Social science and humanities ... have a mutual contempt for one another, the former looking down on the latter as unscientific, the latter regarding the former as philistine. ... The difference comes down to the fact that social science really wants to be predictive, meaning that man is predictable, while the humanities say that he is not.

Allan Bloom

The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.

Allan Bloom

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

Allan Bloom

All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.

Alison Moyet

The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.

Alison Pill

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

Alicia Machado

BUT, in terms of attractiveness, speaking in terms of physical aspects only I think that Argentinean, Italian, Mexican, and Spanish men are among the most attractive men.

Anthony Jeselnik

I like the idea of being the funny guy in the dramatic thing, playing a hit man with a weird sense of humor.

Ann Kirkpatrick

Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.

Ann Landers

A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.

Ann Coulter

The key to the U.N.'s global warming study was man's use of aerosol spray. You have to know the French were involved in a study concluding that Arrid Extra Dry is destroying the Earth. In a world in which everyone smelled, the French would be at no disadvantage. Aerosol spray. How convenient.

Ann Coulter

As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal.

Ann Coulter

Once man's connection to the divine is denied, you can reason yourself from here to anywhere.

Ann Coulter

Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do.

Ann Coulter

I'm more of a man than any liberal.

Ann Coulter

The man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents.

Ann Coulter

I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't.

Ann Coulter

But ultimately, the purpose of marriage is to transmit civilization to the next generation. There has never been an institution that does it as well as marriage, and that is marriage between a man and a woman.

Andy Dick

I went to network on a handful of pilots, and going to network is the most stressful situation anybody can ever be in. You're supposed to be on point, you're supposed to be at the top of your game, the funniest you can be, in about five minutes, in front of people wearing suits who really don't care, and they've probably already picked their person, but they have to see a handful just to satisfy the process. It's the most horrible, horrible process known to man. I wouldn't want anybody to go through it.

Andy Garcia

I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family.

Andy Borowitz

John Edwards is a tragic case of a man who ran for President when he should have joined the Secret Service.

Andy Cohen

There's nothing I don't love about 'Mad Men.'

Andy Andrews

Then the old man's face hardened. "What about you young man?" he asked flatly. "Would you like to get what you deserve?" Jones let that question hang in the air for a moment, then sighed, shook his head, and said "Me? I surely don't want what I deserve. I'm hoping for mercy, not justice.

Andy Andrews

Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others. Remember this, if you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing!

Andrea Dworkin

The utopian male concept which is the premise of male pornography is this--since manhood is established and confirmed over and against the brutalized bodies of women, men need not aggress against each other; in other words, women absorb male aggression so that men are safe from it.

Andrea Dworkin

One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.

Andrea Dworkin

Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for sexual intelligence in women. Sexual intelligence cannot live in the shallow, predestined sexuality men have counterfeiteed for women.

Andrea Dworkin

Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?

Andrea Dworkin

I have to ask you to resist, not comply, to destroy the power men have over women, to refuse to accept it, to abhor it, and to do whatever is necessary despite its cost to you to change it.