Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane von Furstenberg

I always wanted to live a man's life in a woman's body

David A. Siegel

Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.

David Allan Coe

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

David Alan Grier

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...

David Sedaris

To spend your days in the company of naked men - that was the life for me. 'Turn a bit to the left, Jean-Claude. I long to capture the playful quality of your buttocks.

David Sedaris

The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence.

David McCullough

...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out.

David McCullough

With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington. They must be "cool but determined" he had told the men before the battle, when spirits were high. Now, in the face of catastrophe, he was demonstrating what he meant by his own example. Whatever anger or torment or despair he felt, he kept to himself.

David McCullough

I think it's important to remember that these men are not perfect. If they were marble gods, what they did wouldn't be so admirable. The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

David Mitchell

For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing! They own wardrobes, slaves, carriages, houses, warehouses, and ships. They own ports, cities, plantations, valleys, mountains, chains of islands. They own this world, its jungles, its skies, and its seas. Yet they complain that Dejima is a prison. They complain they are not free.

David Mitchell

Men invented money Women invented mutual aid

David Mitchell

Often I think boys don’t become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man’s mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there.

David Mitchell

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

David Gregory

Let's just be clear here. The vice president of the United States accidentally shoots a man, and he feels that it's appropriate for a ranch owner who witnessed this to tell the local Corpus Christi newspaper and not the White House press corps at large, or notify the public in a national way.

David D. Burns

Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

David Crosby

Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time.

Dave Barry

Headbangers' are people who like heavy-metal music, which is performed by skinny men with huge hair who stomp around the stage, striking their instruments and shrieking angrily, apparently because somebody has stolen all their shirts.

Dave Barry

Cyrus Pembridge, the Never Land’s captain, was widely regarded as the most incompetent man to comman a ship since the formation of water. “Who in the name of common sense would put to sea on that ship with that man in charge?” wondered Mack. “Well,” Alf answered, “we are.” “True,” Mack said.

Dave Barry

No man had ever knocked little Richard down. But of course Ammm was not a man.

Dave Barry

If you want to give a man something practical, consider tires. More than once, I would have gladly traded all the gifts I got for a new set of tires.

Dave Barry

The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything.

Dave Barry

Imagine what will happen to this nation if large numbers of American women start using the Wonderbra. It will be catastrophic. The male half of the population will be nothing but mindless drooling Zombies of Lust. Granted, this is also true now, but it will be even worse.

Dave Barry

...Terry Jackson, who is the Miami Herald's automotive writer and TV critic. That's correct: This man gets paid to drive new cars AND watch television. If he ever dies and goes to heaven, it's going to be a big let down.

Dave Barry

There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately.

David Suchet

Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith, I have to find out for myself,

David Suchet

I am very traditional as a man. I am not modern and never have been. I think I was born 50 years of age and out of my time.

David Ruggles

A man is sometimes lost in the dust of his own raising.

David Satcher

There is no health without mental health.

David Sarnoff

An inventor is someone who makes another man rich.

David Sarnoff

Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth. [Message tapped out by Sarnoff using a telegraph key in a tabletop circuit demonstrating an RCA atomic battery as a power source.]

David Powers

If god created man in his own image, how come I'm not invisible?

David Prowse

But I must say the work I'm proudest of is the Green Cross Code man.