You are a man, and it is a man we want. – Bram Stoker Dracula, Chapter 10. Van Helsing to Arthur Holmwood, observing how young and strong and vital he is. He asks Arthur to donate his blood to perform a transfusion on Lucy Westenra.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. – Mahatma Gandhi
Am I the man who killed Deep Purple? I don’t think so. I think every band from that era, even if you look at Led Zeppelin, if you look at their first four albums, they’re extremely different from one another, and I’ve never made the same album twice. – Glenn Hughes
I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit. – Hedy Lamarr
There’s a scene in ‘Medium Cool’ in which a young man walks by with a sign that says, ‘Sanity, please.’ If anything summarizes what I was feeling at that time, it is that sign. – Haskell Wexler
I’m such a Goody Two-shoes, but I get a vicarious thrill at someone sticking it to the Man. – Heather Langenkamp
Growing up in the States, there’s this part of me that’s like, man, I’m Indian. Like, this is where I belong. And as soon as I got to India, and I had to go to the bathroom in some places, I was, like, ‘Man – I am American.’ – Hasan Minhaj
The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain. – Harold Nicolson
The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by conventions and honour, but beyond a certain point, primitive will or desire cannot be curbed. – H. P. Lovecraft
An athletic man, or whatever you want to call him, will only look good in a very classic suit, a pair of classic jeans, athletic clothes or simply naked. Forget fashion. This is not going to happen, unless you want to look like a Chippendales dancer in designer clothes. – Hedi Slimane
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true. – Hedy Lamarr
I have, in my partner George Roberts, a person who is the most wonderful man in the world to me. He’s like a brother to me. Creating with him, being side by side with him, in whatever we try to do, is a real pleasure to me. – Henry Kravis
I’m always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, ‘If there’s a nasty man about, cast Harold Pinter.’ – Harold Pinter
For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature. – Hans Jonas
Man looks in the abyss, there’s nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss. – Hal Holbrook
The war was a mirror; it reflected man’s every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity. – George Grosz
My friends say, ‘Man you’re going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You’re going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.’ I guess now that I’m a dad, I’m thrilled about that. – Hugh Jackman
We need not worry so much about what man descends from – it’s what he descends to that shames the human race. – Hal Boyle
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. – Honore de Balzac
I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man. – Henry Fonda
It’s important for someone like me – who’s known Obama for 20 years – to speak the truth. I know him to be a Christian man. I know him to be one of the greatest patriots. – Hill Harper
As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man’s external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe. – Helena Blavatsky
Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally. – George Woodcock
It is very difficult when you grow up without a father because you don’t have a man who can give you direction and discipline. – Henrikh Mkhitaryan