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Wow, Johnny. I send you out for reinforcements and you come back with an old man, a nerd and this little hobbit guy. Great job.

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper.

when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as "a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows", he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.

I'm probably more of a new man. I'm not particularly alpha. 'Nourish and nurture' are my watchwords as opposed to 'search and destroy'.

The nation must to a degree take it on faith that we, too, are honorable men devoted to her service.

In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens -- the man who lived a rags-to-riches life more remarkable than any of his stories.

Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights

A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.

I doubt anything will really come of this lawsuit. First of all, it's a lawsuit. It involves a subpoena. And try to find a Republican who will be willing to be seen serving a black man.

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Women love a sick child or a healthy animal; A man who is both itches them like an incubus.

Never trust the judgment of an enthusiastic man; never trust the promises of a lazy one.

Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of.

My only complaint with 'Dickie' Bird is that he requires a degree of certainty that is almost neurotic; like the man who has to keep going to the front door to make certain that he's locked it.

In some ways I'm a reticent man, and for quite a number of years there wasn't very much of my real true deep feelings in my writing.

The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.

I'm a pragmatic man. I'll veer on the dangerous side, because I love dangerous subjects, but I won't shoot a show in the foot.

we grant evil freewill (or freewill to evil) is remaining in all natural men: we believe that freewill to good, is from grace and regeneration.

You're a wicked man." "Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice.

The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.

I am the most misunderstood and misrepresented of men. Misrepresented because misunderstood.

Of all the things that men may heed 'Tis most of love they sing indeed.