Man Quotes

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

~ Walt Disney

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

~ James Madison

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

~ George Eliot

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

~ Marcel Marceau

In the graver and more sentimental communication of man and man, the head still bears the superior sway; in the unreserved intimacies of man and woman, the heart is ever uppermost. Feeling is the main thing, and judgment passes for little.

~ William Godwin

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.

~ Robert Delaunay

Religion unites man with God, or forms a communication between them; yet do they not say, 'God is infinite?' If God be infinite, no finite being can have communication or relation with him.

~ Baron D'holbach

Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.

~ John Burroughs

The Pavlovian view of women voters - 'plug the words in, and they will respond' - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands.

~ Deborah Tannen

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

~ Adam Driver

I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

~ John Le Carré

You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.

~ Lesley Gore

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.

~ Nikolai Gogol

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.

~ Jacques Lacan

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

~ Rod Mckuen

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

~ P. G. Wodehouse

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

~ Knute Rockne

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

~ Ted Williams

Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

~ Magic Johnson

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

~ H. G. Wells

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

~ Blaise Pascal

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

~ Thorstein Veblen

The idea of growing up in the South and being a man is an interesting thing; there's a lot masculinity involved, with hunting, fishing, and playing sports that rural people take pride in, but at the same time, I grew up really not wanting to hate anybody.

~ Jason Isbell

I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.

~ Hedy Lamarr

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

~ Marilyn Monroe

There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.

~ Sylvester Stallone

I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.

~ Carrie Underwood

I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.

~ Graydon Carter

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

~ Barbara Walters

If a man can beat you, walk him.

~ Satchel Paige

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

~ Earl Warren

Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

~ Omar Epps

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

~ Hugo Black

Baseball is a man maker.

~ Al Spalding

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

~ Neil Armstrong

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

~ Lao Tzu

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

~ Confucius

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

~ George W. Bush

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.

~ Rod Serling