Man Quotes and Sayings

In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps he takes to find God are his business. I think he went to a study group at the Vineyard, and it created a lot of excitement.

Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett

Bob Dylan • Business • Excitement • God • Lot • Man • One Man • Search • Story • Study Group • Turns • Vineyard • Whole Story • Words

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

Elwyn Brooks White

Farmer • Good • Good Farmer • Handy • Humus • Less • Man • More • Nothing • Sense

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Elwyn Brooks White

Bright • Feel • Future • Her • Less Time • Man • Nature • Optimistic • Time

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

Elwyn Brooks White

Acceptance • Age • Atom • Man • New • Power • Speed • Terror • Violence

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

Elwyn Brooks White

Bylaws • Club • Easier • He • Loyal • Man • Personally • Planet • Shorter

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

Elwyn Brooks White

Born • Man • Many • Men • Nonpolitical • Perpendicular • Piece • Political • Slant • Upright • Way • Writing

You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.

Black • Community • Decimation • Facing • Family • Forces • Incarceration • Man • Mass • People • Police • Problems

I love – you know, I'm a big fan of Prince and Curtis Mayfield and Smoky Robinson. It's something to be said about a man who can be very masculine but still display that sensitive side, and that falsetto does it perfectly.

Big • Big Fan • Display • Know • Love • Man • Masculine • Prince • Said • Sensitive • Side • Something • You

It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them… 'Black Messiah' is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.

Black Messiah • Change • Collectively • Community • Egypt • Every Place • Feeling • Leader • Man • Occupy Wall • One Charismatic Leader • People • Thousands

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

Blues • Blues Singer • Guitar • Man • Me • Myself • You

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.

Better • Blues • Blues Singer • Bluesman • Guitar • Lot • Man • Many • Me • Myself • Taught • Things • Think • You

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

BB King • King • Look • Man • Me • Name • Old Man • You

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.

Born • Day • Doing • Good • House • Live • Man • Money • Plantation • Things • Til • Word

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

Doorway • Family • Gotta • Growing • Growing Up • Man • Taught • Trying • Wolf

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

Alan Alexander Milne

Longer • Man • Mankind • Mankind Renounces • Own • Something • Then • War

I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world. I collect emotions. I am wealthy in that the people of Russia have twice entrusted me with the leadership of a great nation such as Russia – I believe that is my greatest wealth.

Europe • Great • I Am • Leadership • Man • Me • Nation • People • Wealthiest Man • Wealthy • Whole • World

I've always had a problem with the average macho man – they've always been a threat to me.

Always • Average • Average Macho • Been • Man • Me • Problem • Threat