M Quotes
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“Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof.”
“Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.”
“Man, that woman was quick when she wanted to be. But put her behind the wheel of a Buick.”
Source: Death and the Girl Next Door
“Man, that's the only kind of book I like one that's so real you want to find out everything there is to know about the person who wrote it, like how tall he is and what kind of music he likes and whether or not he really went through all the stuff he was writing about.”
Source: Under the Wolf, Under the Dog
“Man, the Beatles were so high, they let Ringo sing a coupla tunes. Tell me they weren't partyin'.”
“Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.”
“Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond Earth.”
“Man, the feeling of the make is something that I can’t put to words, it’s the very best feeling in the world. I just chase that, it’s a very real feeling and straight up, I am addicted to it.”
“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an "individual," has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world as destroy his freedom and the integrity of his individual self.”
Source: Escape from Freedom
“Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals, in a ridiculously helpless state.”
“Man, them engagement rings, boy, they cost a lot. I was looking at 'em. Cost like a thousand bucks, two thousand bucks, y'know. Three thousand bucks. Something like that- four thousand bucks. Big number divisible by a thousand, anyways.”
“Man, there's a lot of pressure when you put on that Kansas uniform with the high expectations everyone has.”
“Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.”
“Man, there's no boundary line to art!”
“Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“Man, through all ages of revolving time, Unchanging man, in every varying clime, Deems his own land of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven o'er all the world beside; Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.”
“Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.”
“Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.”
“Man, wear your seat belts. That's all I can tell everybody. You never know.”
“Man, we’ve got something special. Don’t screw it up.”
“Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology; And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.”
“Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.”
“Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.”
“Man, when living, is soft and tender; when dead, he is hard and tough. All animals and plants when living are tender and delicate; when dead they become withered and dry. Therefore it is said: the hard and tough are parts of death; the soft and tender are parts of life.”
“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.”
“Man, who don't like spaghetti?”
“Man, who preys both on the vegetable and animal species, is himself a prey to neither. He too possesses the reproductive principle far beyond the degree requisite for the bare continuance of his species. What becomes of the surplus of human life to which this principle is competent?”
Source: 1829-1836
“Man, who thinks he knows everything. But what does man know...Man cares only for himself, in his fear and hate.”
“Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is usually commenced from, and often confined to, his structure, that a knowledge of the archetype has been so long hidden from anatomists.”
“Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his imagination to be anything above a cavalryman, a theologian or a corporation director.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.”
“Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears.”
Source: On the Road
“Man, Wren. I’m impressed. No woman ever sent flowers to thank me. (Serre) Don’t be that impressed. I’m thinking she didn’t send flowers to thank him. One flower says thank you. This many says she thought he was dead. Or that she killed him. Hmm...I’m thinking, put a tiger in her tank and that didn’t quit rev her up. What she needs is to go hunting for bear. (Dev)”
“Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.”
Source: The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius
“Man, you can come see me six or seven times in a row and you'll never see the same show twice, because I don't like to be robotic onstage. I like to perform for that particular audience.”
“Man, you cannot be real," the human said softly. "Why not?" "You just can't." She laughed a little. "Well, I am." He cleared his throat again. Offered her a lopsided grin. "Mind if I ask you to prove it?" "How?" "Can I touch your hair?”
Source: J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4
“Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.”
“Man, you learn so much just like with anything else. If you do something long enough, you learn. You make mistakes. You run into roadblocks and barriers. You overcome obstacles. You fall down. I mean you have to fall down to learn to stand up.”
“Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.”
“Man, you weigh a freaking ton," he told me. "What've you been eating, rocks?" "Why, is your head missing some?" I croaked. His mouth almost quirked in a smile, and that's when I knew how upset he'd been”
“Man, you weigh a freaking ton. What have you been eating, rocks?" * Max: "Why, is your head missing some?" o Chapter 68 p. 214 + Fang carried Max while flying after she had "a stroke or something". Gazzy: "I vill now destroy de Snickuhs bahs!" ter Borcht: "Is dere anysing special about you? Anysing vorth saving?" Fang: "Besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.”
“Man, you'd be surprised how much I'm learning - not only about myself, but about the musicians who came before me. You don't realize at first when you listen to Armstrong's records how great this man was and how hard that Hot Five music was to play. After the experience of reading and playing those parts, I have an even greater respect for Louis Armstrong than before”
“Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.”
“Man, you’re a regular Bonnie Parker.” “A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.” Jesse found that hysterical. “Did Willie say that?” “Nope, Mae West. Now, how do I get on this thing in a skirt?”
“Man," he said, "I'm not afraid of graveyards. The dead are just, you know, people who wanted the same things you and I want." "What do we want?" I asked blurrily. "Aw, man, you know," he said. "We just want, well, the same things these people wanted." "What was that?" He shrugged. "To live, I guess," he said.”
“Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!”
Source: Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus