Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cory Doctorow

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

Clive James

Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all so taciturn that you might as well try interviewing the cars themselves.

Clive James

Young men especially - I don't know if young women feel much the same - but young men think they are immortal, automatically. They have no idea of time because they have so much energy and I was like that.

Clive James

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.

Clive James

The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.

Clive Barker

What worth was a man who could not be haunted?

Clive Barker

One man's pornography is another man's theology.

Clive Barker

With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our fears, sitting to talk them over with the eagerness of a hungry man before a full and steaming plate.

Clive Barker

A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.

Clive Barker

I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left the end of our story untold. That mystery is troubling to us. How could it be otherwise? Without the final part, we think, how are we to make sense of all that went before: which is to say, our lives? So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.

Clint Eastwood

Men must know their limitations.

Dylan Moran

A man does not know how he came by the half a pie he is holding in his hand!

e. e. cummings

for whenever men are right they are not young

e. e. cummings

a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat

e. e. cummings

that strictly(and how)scienti fic land of supernod where freedom is compulsory and only man is god.

e. e. cummings

The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.

e. e. cummings

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

e. e. cummings

great men burn bridges before they come to them

E. B. White

Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.

E. B. White

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.

E. B. White

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

E. B. White

When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.

E. B. White

I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended. There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.

E. B. White

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

E. B. White

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

E. B. White

In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.

Duane Chapman

Six men can carry you or 12 men can judge you. You decide!

Drew Lachey

Man does not cease to play because he grows old, he grows old because he ceases to play.

Douglas Hurd

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

Douglas Horton

Man worships because God lays His hand to the dust of our experience, and man miraculously becomes a living soul - and knows it and wants to worship.

Douglas Coupland

There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.

Douglas Coupland

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

Donald Trump

I watched what this man [Cruz] did to Dr. Ben Carson, who I respect, in Iowa, where he said that Ben Carson is out of the race - he has left Iowa and he's out of the race. And I thought it was disgraceful.