Quotes
Quotes about Man
A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, statusâall these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).
The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
Beauty and grace command the world.
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. - Agricola.
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
Man shapes himself through decision that shape his environment.
They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. - The Italians, 1964.
It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. - "A Word to the Wizards".
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King.
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.
The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
There is nothing permanent except change.
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. - Chance.
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples.
This, this is misery! the last, the worst, That man can feel.
