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Quotes About Men

he cursed the malevolent Gods for the black day when idly, for their amusement, they had spawned men.
~ Michael Moorcock
Elric knew. The sword told him, without words of any sort. Stormbringer needed to fight, for that was its reason for existence. Stormbringer needed to kill, for that was its source of energy, the lives and the souls of men, demons—even gods.
~ Michael Moorcock
Everyone back home in Bamiyan had rifles too. I think just about every man in Afghanistan has a rifle. It
~ Michael Morpurgo
How can you say that?' said Rudi. 'Just look at him, Karl. Can you not see that he's something special? This one isn't just any old horse. There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? I tell you, my friend, there's divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them.
~ Michael Morpurgo
Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.
~ Michael Ondaatje
He has had more hallucinations recently. He talks about 'When that man was in the kitchen …' and so on. Recently he locked the door in the evening, in case 'those men' got in. He knows by their accents that they are quite cultured, and they are apparently friendly, but it is frightening that they should be so real to him.
~ Michael Palin
I]t is remarkable how much sheer bullshit seems to accrete around the subject of barbecue. No other kind of cooking comes even close. Exactly why, I'm not sure, but it may be that cooking over fire is so straightforward that the people who do it feel a need to baste the process in thick layers of intricacy and myth. It could also be that barbecue is performed disproportionately by self-dramatizing men.
~ Michael Pollan
does the novelty and power of this sort of radical noticing impress women as much as men? I tend to doubt it.)
~ Michael Pollan
Los abonos artificiales conducen inevitablemente a la nutrición artificial, a la comida artificial, a los animales artificiales y, finalmente, a los hombres y mujeres artificiales».
~ Michael Pollan
It's so easy to play us guys that I hate to give away secrets to women because I know they'll use them. But OK, if you just simply don't give a guy the time of day, every once in awhile, it just makes us more like 'What do we do?' Men are developed to conquer. When we can't seem to conquer, we stay in it no matter what.
~ Jamie Foxx
We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.
~ Warren Farrell
I've tried, in my own life, to speak up when I see harassment occurring. But I want to acknowledge that there are probably situations and instances where I could have done more. I think that's an acknowledgment that all men need to make.
~ J. B. Pritzker
I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.
~ Judith Krantz
In the jungle, size is king. Women like big men. That's just evolution.
~ Mike Cernovich
Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming.
~ Arthur Capper
Like many men, I am highly skilled in the art of losing things but prefer to outsource the recovery process.
~ Craig Brown
What was it about that short creature with her wild hair and spurious air of purity and why would anyone much less two men love her and to such disastrous ends.
~ Anna Godbersen, Envy
I really like older British guys - I don't think any of them would ever have a problem with crying in front of a woman or saying "I love you" or "You hurt me" or emotional stuff like that.
~ Jessica Alba
To love life for some men is to love fighting, for fighting, and not love, is seen as man's deepest passion.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Rachel, my itchy witch," Al said as he tugged the lace at his cuffs. "We've talked about this. You simply must stop collecting nasty little men. How many do you really need, love?
~ Kim Harrison
All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I love a man in a suit. Men should stay clothed, even if they have nice bodies.
~ Leah Remini
Cats, I decided, had certain advantages over men. There were loyal without being sycophantic, independent without being absent, and affectionate without being rapacious. That they choke up balls of fur and leave dead rodents at my feet is unfortunate. But it is not grounds for divorce.
~ Betsy Tobin
There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who have never risked an exploration of the unknown, who have never attempted the kind of creativity of which men and women are potentially capable.
~ Betty Friedan