Quotes About Reflection

Jesus Chris was more than man.

I recognize as a man there's a lot of things that I don't have to think about. But I'm thinking about them now.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.

You are right that a man needs light like he needs bread, but a man needs a little darkness, too, if only so that he can sleep, and dream.

Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.

Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says.

I watched the needle take another man.

I feel like a young man of 15.

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life.

The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain.

You're not such a dog as you think you are.

I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.

The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there

I saw my bulky person in the windows of the passing storefronts and wondered, when will that man there find himself to be loved?

Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: 'Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe'

What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.

I regretted not being a person in shape many a day while we were making this film [Swiss Army Man].

Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.

I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.

Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.

The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.

The most amazing thing about young men is how invisible they were to you when you were young. It is also the most poignant.

Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.