About A Man Quotes

#1. Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.

Wynton Marsalis

#2. Jesus Christ was innocent too,' said Svejk, 'and all the same they crucified him. No one anywhere has ever worried about a man being innocent. Maul halten und weiter dienen ['Grin and bear it and get on with the job'] - as they used to tell us in the army. That's the best and finest thing of all.

Jaroslav Hasek

#3. There's only really two things about a man that matter: what he wants, and what he'll do to get it. Everythin' else we pretend is important
whether you're tough, or good-lookin', smart, stupid, honorable, whatever
that's just details.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#4. This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.

Mitch Albom

#5. The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin Enger writes with durable grace about a man's quest for redemption and the human capacity for forgiveness.

Benjamin Percy

#6. Never heard you talk about a man this way. Usually you rattle off their attributes like you're fixing to fricassee the poor sons of bitches. God help the poor bastard you ever fall in love with.

Leslea Tash

#7. The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.

Agyness Deyn

#8. I'd also learned something new. There was something really sexy about a man that kissed you, without stopping to ask first.

Rose Wynters

#9. Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.

Zell Miller

#10. If the eyes are the windows to the soul, the voice is its song. You can tell a great deal about a man by listening to him.

Kristen Callihan

#11. Her father had always said a person could tell much about a man by the way he dealt with animals, simpletons, and children.
-Adara's thoughts

Kinley MacGregor

#12. You can tell a lot about a man from how he treats his dog,

Jim Butcher

#13. As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin' to assassinate my character, that's impossible. You talkin' about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk.

Suge Knight

#14. Fair,' Josie said. 'Then we'll talk about a man in a tan jacket holding a deerskin suitcase.' She clutched her left hand against her side like she had a pain there, but no pain registered on her face.

Joseph Fink

#15. I really didn't write it with any intention of being published. If I'd known that was going to happen, I would have written something more sensible, because now I have to dress up as a pirate for book signings ... I would have done a novel about a man who hangs around with a gaggle of models.

Gideon Defoe

#16. Glamour might still have clung to a rakehell who abducted noble damsels, but no glamour remained about a man who had been pushed into a pond in full ball-dress.

Georgette Heyer

#17. The only thing about a man that is a man ... is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.

Archibald MacLeish

#18. I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.

Stephen King

#19. If you want to know a man, dig in his firepit...Basically, it meant that you could judge a lot about a man's life by what he thew away - or by what he was willing to burn in order to stay warm.

Brandon Sanderson

#20. I think the sexiest thing about a man is that he's confident. Sure, sometimes you meet someone and you see his appearance first, but then you get to know him, and he looks completely different to you.

Nicole Scherzinger

#21. The sexiest thing about a man is the he can make a woman smile even when she thinks there is nothing to smile about.

Courtney Giardina

#22. It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.

Harvey Keitel

#23. There was something terribly sexy about a man who was competent in the kitchen.

Brenda Gayle

#24. I never know what I'm going to want to curl up in bed with." I shrug.
"How about a man?" she retorts.

Alexandra Potter

#25. Don't worry about me talking," he said. "I have a living to make. You know in Africa no woman ever misses her lion and no white man ever bolts." "I bolted like a rabbit," Macomber said. Now what in hell were you going to do about a man who talked like that, Wilson wondered.

Ernest Hemingway,

#26. I'm from L.A., so I'm used to seeing people in sunglasses and flip-flops. There's something so romantic about a man in a scarf and a knitted hat.

Meghan Markle

#27. about a man whose greatness had nothing to do with wealth or power.

Kevin Kwan

#28. Money is good, but it is not all about a man. You will have successes and reversals, but remember it is your reaction to each of them that counts for your character.

Matthew Pearl

#29. 'Noah' is about a man whose mission is to obliterate Earth's past and godfather its future. Replacing the word 'God' with 'Creator' and taking other scriptural liberties, the movie risks confusing those who don't take the Bible literally and alienating those who do.

Richard Corliss

#30. You can tell a lot about a man from his hands. If they don't have any scars or calluses on them, you might as well assume they cry at romantic comedy films, too.

Ellen Hollman

#31. You can tell a lot about a man by the way he treats his dog....

Peary Perry

#32. You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.

Richard Dawkins

#33. You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.

C.S. Lewis

#34. It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing a play about a man driven by that thought.

Susanna Kaysen

#35. All that can accurately be said about a man who thinks he is a poached egg is that he is in the minority.

James Burke

#36. Somewhere in our Darkest Nights we made up a story about a Man who will never let us down.

Grant Morrison

#37. I don't know what he means, but there's something not clean about a man who sneers at everything.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#38. She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life - one scratched on the wall.

Virginia Woolf

#39. All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being ... he can't be any worse.

Mark Twain

#40. There is something so sexy about a man so in control of himself and everything around him that it makes you just want to do things to him then watch as he loses control over you

Kitty Berry

#41. Never say anything bad about a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. By then he's a mile away, you've got his shoes, and you can say whatever you want to.

Garrison Keillor

#42. What do you believe reveals more about a man's character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it?

Aaron B. Powell

#43. Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.

Charles Dickens

#44. I remembered once thinking how much it said about a man whether he liked to fuck a woman in the pussy or in the ass.

Skye Warren

#45. My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second life. On one level, it's about how we create a coherent sense of self.

Nicole Krauss

#46. A few days before the [Mr. America] contest we heard rumors about a man who had throngs of people following him along the Lake Michigan Beach front, and we couldn't imagine who could draw crowds by merely walking along the beach!

George Eiferman

#47. Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

Mark Twain

#48. What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.

Claude Monet

#49. Boss, it's not right to joke around about a man's ... Did you call it a peeper?

Lindsay Buroker

#50. Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#51. But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.

Alfred Doblin

#52. There is something insincere about a man or woman who repeatedly tells God how much he or she loves Him while refusing to obey Him.

Andy Stanley

#53. Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#54. Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess
there is something more dashing about a man.

Franz Grillparzer

#55. I grinned into the phone. "You like to think about a man making sweet love to my mouth? I think you have a problem, Ella bella." "If you don't know by now that I love you long time, Ollie, you are not very observant.

Janelle Stalder

#56. How pointless, harboring romantic fantasies about a man who'd made it abundantly clear that he wasn't interested.

Diana Dempsey

#57. If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

Kirk Douglas

#58. A self-help story about a man who overcomes circumstance by reminiscing over his own life's lessons. Inspired, he sets out at night on the gritty streets of New York City to capture the beauty of life thru his passion for photography.

Amazon

#59. Whether it appears in a story about a man killing his girlfriend while calling her a whore or in trying to battle conservative claims that emergency contraception or the HPV vaccine will make girls promiscuous, the purity myth in America underlies more misogyny than most people would like to admit

Jessica Valenti

#60. 'The Master and Margarita' is deeply to do with the unconscious. It is a story about a man who writes a story in a time when he's not supposed to write that story: the story of Pontius Pilate.

Simon McBurney

#61. After all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh.

Lawrence Durrell

#62. All I know for certain is this: Caiaphas - and probably Annas also - is still extremely worried about a man who was most definitely crucified and buried.

Janette Oke

#63. It's often women who are writing leading roles for women. Most of the stuff that comes my way is not actually about women. I'm just asked to be a supporting player in a story about a man, and I, frankly, was not interested in doing that.

Carrie Coon

#64. I find something incredibly sexy about a man who pursues love with care, it's like he knows the feeling of heartbreak; so he's gentle with whom he gives his heart too.

Nikki Rowe

#65. objective physical science methodology will never permit us to know a man; that such methodology limits us merely to knowing about a man.

Mark Clifton

#66. What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth?

Nancy Reagan

#67. I don't want any man I can run over. What I love about a man in control is it allows them to be the kings that I always expect them to be.

Angie Stone

#68. Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.

John Steinbeck

#69. I hate metaphors. That's why my favorite book is Moby Dick. No frou-frou symbolism. Just a good, simple tale about a man who hates an animal.

Ron Swanson

#70. I can't get excited about a man until he's forty-two. I know this idiot girl who keeps telling me I ought to go to a head-shrinker; she says I have a father complex. Which is so merde. I simply trained myself to like older men, and it was the smartest thing I ever did.

Truman Capote

#71. You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.

Marcel Proust

#72. You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.

Walter Benjamin

#73. One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

Frank Moore Colby

#74. 'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.

Meghan O'Rourke

#75. Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.

Keke Palmer

#76. But Doc knew that was the key to successful lying. People judged what other people would do by what they themselves would do. You could tell a hell of a lot about a man by what he assumed others got up to. If you're looking for a thief, bet on the man who's always accusing his neighbors.

Elizabeth Bear

#77. It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

Adam Sandler

#78. My tag line for 'Silver Linings' is this: It's about a man who thinks his life is a movie produced by God.

Matthew Quick

#79. How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl.

Marilyn Monroe

#80. The first thing I notice about a man are his shoes. Then I look at his watch.

Frida Giannini

#81. There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life.

Frank Langella

#82. I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.

Queen Latifah

#83. There was something nice about a man who was absorbed by a good book.

Maya Rodale

#84. Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#85. Light, women would believe anything about a man so long as it was bad. And the worse it was, the more they had to talk about it.

Robert Jordan

#86. But its absurd to let yourself get into a state like this. Simply absurd,' she repeated. 'And what about? A man - one man.

Aldous Huxley

#87. I directed and produced Conviction, a movie about a man who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. I got to know Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck very well - he's a character in the movie - and I got very passionate about the cause. It's just so inherently dramatic.

Tony Goldwyn

#88. Don't write about Man; write about a man.

E.B. White

#89. 'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.

Idina Menzel

#90. There was something compelling about a man who refused to wear pants in winter.

Kai Strand

#91. I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Margaret Thatcher

#92. You can tell a lot about a man by his friends, or lack of them. Do they bring out the best in each other, or are they always gossiping, tearing others down? Keeping wounds alive?

Louise Penny

#93. No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

Louis L'Amour

#94. There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.

Maureen Howard

#95. I used to laugh at that old wheeze about a man wanting his son to be better than he was, but as I get older it seems less funny and more true.

Stephen King

#96. Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#97. No-one, and nothing, could make me very happy. I was tough, which is probably the saddest thing you can say about a man.

Gregory David Roberts

#98. The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or Jack Kerouac or almost any road story, it's really about a man on the road. There's an assumption that the road is too dangerous for women.

Gloria Steinem

#99. It still annoys me when I read really derogatory things about how a woman looks because you would usually not read these things about a man, and that still has the potential to put women off public life.

Nicola Sturgeon

#100. I wanted to make sure that 'Up' wasn't a 3D movie about a man who sails his house to South America. It's a movie about an old man who sails his house to South America that also happens to be in 3D. So the first thing is always the story.

Pete Docter