Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryce Courtenay

what is a german? to say a man is a german, what is that? does it tell you if he is a good man? or a bad man? no, my friend, it tells you nothing about a man to say he is german. a man must think what he is inside. what he is on the outside, how can this matter?

Cesare Lombroso

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

Cesare Lombroso

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand

Cesare Lombroso

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses

Cesare Beccaria

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

Cesare Beccaria

The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity...will respect the less important and arbitrary ones... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

Cesar Romero

The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it.

Cesar Romero

I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.

Chad Harbach

You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.

Cesare Pavese

When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.

Cesare Pavese

When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.

Cesare Pavese

The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.

Cesare Pavese

Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.

Cesare Pavese

Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?

Cesare Pavese

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

Cesare Pavese

No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Catherine Fisher

Finn smiled ruefully. "I'm a Prisoner, old man. Just like you.

Catherine Fisher

Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.

Catherine Hicks

The image I gravitate towards are spunky women, women who talk back.

Catherine Bell

I understand men much better than most women I know.

Catherine Hardwicke

The truth is, most of those female stories that are contending for Oscars are directed by men. Let's be honest. I looked at the 44 Oscar contenders in Variety that someone wrote up - there was not one directed by a woman. All the ones that were getting an Oscar pitch with the money and everything behind them were by men.

Catherine Hardwicke

Most of the female-directed films, if they got distribution, would have fewer dollars to support the film and play in fewer theaters than the men. Because the female-directed films go to smaller companies. So the gap starts widening.

Catherine Deneuve

Men are good but women are magic.

Catherine Deneuve

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

Cartier Martin

I don't know nothing about that. I'm not the man upstairs.

Cary Fukunaga

All I kept thinking about was, "Man, he's so relaxed onstage! I'm never going to be that relaxed! I'm clearly not meant to be in front of the camera. I'm really not meant for anything but behind the camera."

Carter Glass

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

Carter G. Woodson

I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

Carter G. Woodson

It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.

Carter G. Woodson

If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.

Carter G. Woodson

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

Carter G. Woodson

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a lawsuit. It would do the cause much good. Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.