Quotes with man-being

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  • Beck Oh, the tragedy and the anguish. You just gotta Rage Against the Appliance, man. The toast is burning and you just gotta rip it out and free it before it fills the house with smoke. Rage Against the Toaster.
    Source: Spin magazine, July 1994
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Felix Frankfurter Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
    Felix Frankfurter
    Austrian-American lawyer, professor, and jurist (1882 - 1965)
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  • Herman Melville Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Lawrence Durrell Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Leon Trotsky Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Boris Johnson Old Man Howard, that Old Man Howard, he just keeps rolling, just keeps rolling.
    Source: Andrew Pierce, Boris on a roll, The Times, 29 April 2005, p. 40.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Bowen On a metaphysician: A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there.
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  • Carter Burwell On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman On being shown a relic said to be a bone of St. Elizabeth, he (Sigismund) turned it over and remarked that it could just as well be that of a dead cobbler.
    Source: A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • William Hamilton On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Bruce Forsyth On stage, I think I'm 35. Working takes over my whole body and I become a younger man - that's why I won't stop.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Bobby Ghosh On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terrible morning will not be smiling smugly to himself as satellite TV brings to the leafy boulevards of Abbottabad the somber images of New Yorkers commemorating those who perished in the Twin Towers.
    Bobby Ghosh
    Indian-born American journalist and commentator
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  • Caroline Knapp On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.'
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Alfred de Vigny On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Avi Arad On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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