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Quotes About Man

She turned. A young man of godlike proportions* was standing in the doorway. *The better class of gods, anyway. Not the ones with the tentacles, obviously.
~ Terry Pratchett
You're an interesting man, sergeant. You make enemies like a craftsman.
~ Terry Pratchett
Granny looked up at the zombie. He was - or, technically, had been - a tall, handsome man. He still was, only now he looked like someone who had walked through a room full of cobwebs. 'What's your name, dead man?' she said.
~ Terry Pratchett
No wonder this man was a diplomat. You couldn't trust him an inch, he thought in loops, and you couldn't help liking him despite it.
~ Terry Pratchett
LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?
~ Terry Pratchett
mother, thought Claire, cannot knight her own son. It must be done by another man.
~ Tess Gerritsen
It was the blood: there was a turbulence in her that could not be tempered by all the good breeding of the man who had sired her
~ Thea Devine
And so you have the astounding and bitter spectacle, gentlemen, of a supposedly innocent and highly misunderstood young man dragging this weary and heart-sick girl from place to place, in order to find a lake deserted enough in which to drown her. And with her but four months from motherhood!
~ Theodore Dreiser
But, oh, gentlemen, the ways of nature, or of God, and the Providence that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we may! It is man who proposes, but God—God—who disposes!
~ Theodore Dreiser
You have heard him called a man—a bearded man—a criminal and a crime-soaked product of the darkest vomiting of Hell.
~ Theodore Dreiser
If Bodhidharma is the ideal man, it is because his image is that of a hero who has broken the chains of illusion that enclose man in the world of emotions. The hammer that is used to break these chains is the practice of Zen.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.
~ Jerry Lewis
Aaranya Kaandam' is a term from the Ramayana. It means Jungle Chapter but apart from the term, I haven't borrowed anything else. The characters are as good or as bad as the common man.
~ Thiagarajan Kumararaja
A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.
~ Jose Bergamin
I went to karate classes where it was basically a line-up of hulking man, hulking man, small nine-year-old girl, hulking man, hulking man.
~ Rhianna Pratchett
I think keeping your family close and having them support you helps you so much, and also having a good man in your life, and I have a lot of great friends too.
~ Camille Grammer
I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage.
~ Mark Shriver
Are you kidding? This is crazy, man. I thought I was Mr. Pre-Televised awards.
~ TobyMac
A killer Cuban restaurant with a giant cigar bar. Have me a Cuban sandwich. That's just like heaven to me. I'm a simple man.
~ Ron White
I'm into the scruff. I like an unkempt man. I mean, not like beard to the chest, but I'm definitely a Johnny Depp kinda girl.
~ Sarah Hay
I have a certain tradition here at the GQ awards. Every year I pick the best-looking man and bestow upon him my kiss.
~ Ksenia Sobchak
I think Will Ferrell is probably completely evil, the darkest of them all. He is known among comics as the dark knight. An evil, evil man and a dangerous soul.
~ Bennett Miller
Travis Browne don't know what's he thinking. Travis, he's out there, man. That guy has been knocked out so many times, he's been rocked so many times, he don't know what to say.
~ Derrick Lewis
The groupies, they been around since I was 16, that's when we started off doing the independent thing. I've grown up now, I'm a man, so it's time for me to make man decisions in my life so that's what I'm doing, and just jumping over that broomstick and tying the knot was one of 'em.
~ Paul Wall