Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.
~By Ken Kesey ~
I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.
~By Alan Brien ~
Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.
~By Carol Shields ~
When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.
~By Ed Smith ~
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
~By Samuel Gompers ~
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
~By Rollo May ~
I noticed that this defense attorney is a very, very intelligent man, and he's very cool and he's very knowledgeable, and I think that personally I'd like to have an attorney like him.
~By Tommy Bond ~
Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.
~By David Sarnoff ~
The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.
~By Bill Toomey ~
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
~By Alphonse de Lamartine ~
How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
~By Vernor Vinge ~
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.
~By Lisa Kudrow ~
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
~By Oliver Stone ~
I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
~By Jimi Hendrix ~
How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!
~By James Payn ~
One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.
~By Jim Ryun ~
So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.
~By Carrie Underwood ~
The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.
~By Fay Vincent ~
You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.
~By Marisa Tomei ~
Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.
~By Frederick M. Vinson ~
The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man.
~By Curtis Sittenfeld ~
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
~By Thomas Beecham ~
Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed.
~By Roy Bean ~
I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.
~By Jean Rostand ~
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
~By Emma Goldman ~
Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.
~By Bo Bennett ~
We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
~By Walter Jon Williams ~
One can not be just if one is not humane.
~By Luc de Clapier ~
It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.
~By Rosa Parks ~
Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
~By Ron Paul ~
During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.
~By Bob Graham ~
For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
~By Arthur Peacocke ~
Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon.
~By Wilson Greatbatch ~
That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.
~By Charles Lyell ~
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
~By Anna Julia Cooper ~
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
~By Edwin Hubbel Chapin ~
Every human being makes mistakes.
~By Ian Smith ~
This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.
~By Cat Stevens ~
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
~By Austin O'Malley ~
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.
~By Cory Doctorow ~
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
~By Ludwig van Beethoven ~
I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns.
~By Jules Massenet ~
It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.
~By Charles Sanders Peirce ~
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
~By Audrey Hepburn ~
The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.
~By Mary Austin ~
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.
~By William J. Brennan, Jr. ~
There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
~By Jules Renard ~
I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.
~By Joseph Epstein ~
President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.
~By David Powers ~
Do you know how many plastic surgeries are done to the actors and actresses in Hollywood?
~By Joseph Jackson ~
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
~By Paul Hawken ~
I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
~By Margaret Atwood ~
As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.
~By Judy Biggert ~
A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.
~By Dorothy Height ~
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
~By G. Stanley Hall ~
She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on.
~By Michael Ende ~
Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
~By Mae West ~
I learned a woman is never an old woman.
~By Joni Mitchell ~
Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.
~By Ted Stevens ~
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little potbelly and a bald spot.
~By Elayne Boosler ~
Iran has a dismal record on human rights.
~By Howard Berman ~
To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.
~By Tiberius ~
I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.
~By Tori Amos ~
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
~By Jean Paul ~
Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.
~By Herb Ritts ~
Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist.
~By Jim Coleman ~
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
~By George Jean Nathan ~
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
~By Robert Trout ~
Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
~By Mako ~
Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.
~By Ruth St. Denis ~
We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.
~By Bernie Ebbers ~
A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
~By Archibald MacLeish ~
They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They've followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers.
~By Neil Tennant ~
Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
~By Leo Rosten ~
They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.
~By John Pearson ~
I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive.
~By Bill Joy ~
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
~By Frederick The Great ~
Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
~By Freda Adler ~
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'
~By Rip Torn ~
I was Chairman Mao's dog. What he said to bite, I bit.
~By Jiang Qing ~
Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.
~By Lamar Alexander ~
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
~By Grover Cleveland ~
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
I'm a big woman. I need big hair.
~By Aretha Franklin ~
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
~By William Temple ~
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
~By Ted Danson ~
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