Brown Man Quotes

#1. Every tribe needs a good front man to sell the program. Who better to convince the Middle East to give up the oil, than a brown man with a Muslim name?

Lenny Bruce

#2. Hand-barrow - a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#3. Scatman, fat man, black and white and brown man, tell me 'bout the color of your soul.

Scatman John

#4. The future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse

Aravind Adiga

#5. You meet a man, you know him. You meet a woman, she knows you.

Pierce Brown

#6. What I want to do is play roles as a black man, instead of playing black man's roles. You know?

Jim Brown

#7. The foolish families worry over blood. I care nothing for purity of family or ancestry. That is a vain thing. I care only for strength. What a man can do to other men, women.

Pierce Brown

#8. If a man can't love you for who you are, he's not worth The Dior Gloss.

Leah Marie Brown

#9. You've only talked like that since you became a horrid what's-his-name. You know what I mean. What do you call a man who wants to embrace the chimney-sweep?" "A saint," said Father Brown. "I think," said Sir Leopold, with a supercilious smile, "that Ruby means a Socialist.

G.K. Chesterton

#10. Wear the mask. Hide the man. Feel nothing. See everything. Move and kill. Move and kill. I am not a man. They are not men.

Pierce Brown

#11. One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control of his life; one woman's grounds for insanity is another woman's ground to a dramatic shaping of self.

Rosellen Brown

#12. Life is too short to be unhappy in business. If business were not a part of the joy of living, we might almost say that we have no right to live, because it is a pretty poor man who cannot get into the line for which he is fitted.

George L. Brown

#13. The man now retrieved a linen cloth and stuffed it deep into Katherine's mouth. "Death," he
whispered to her, "should be a quiet thing.

Dan Brown

#14. If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.

Emma Goldman

#15. Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children's life, I had to learn my lessons.

Bobby Brown

#16. That's a man's vital spot, the helpless thing he loves. ("Jane Brown's Body")

Cornell Woolrich

#17. In my business, one learns there is a fine line between insanity and genius. We would be wise to give this man a little respect.

Dan Brown

#18. I saw a man whose suffering had become a kind of skeleton holding him upright.

Eli Brown

#19. Lord Rodrik Harlaw was neither fat nor slim; neither tall nor short; neither ugly nor handsome. His hair was brown, as were his eyes, though the short, neat beard he favored had gone grey. All in all, he was an ordinary man, distinguished only by his love of written words.

George R R Martin

#20. In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?" Langdon had no idea, but he could imagine only one reason the question had been asked. "Surely such a travesty has never occurred.

Dan Brown

#21. Neither man nor any animal can enjoy life to the full without taking some risks to life or limb.

Philip Brown

#22. How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

Charles Brockden Brown

#23. A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#24. Would that my hands were meant to build. I would know what to say. What to do. Maybe in another life I would have been that man. In this one, my words, like my hands, are clumsy. All they can do is cut. All they can do is break.

Pierce Brown

#25. Last week,he had become so enraged with a visiting scientist who had shown him undue pity that Kholer clambered to his feet and threw a clipboard at the man's head.

Dan Brown

#26. A man is never too young to kill, never too wise, never too strong, but he can damn well be too rich.

Pierce Brown

#27. Yes, you'd make a great partner for him. What with the embezzling and the adultery and the drinking. That's what every man wants in a wife - a vaguely alcoholic, fornicating thief.

Eleanor Brown

#28. A man that knows how to be a friend will always find a friend when he needs one.

David Mark Brown

#29. While Dmitri, as the leader of Raphael's Seven, could not accept such a weakness, the mortal he'd once been, the one who had loved a woman with a wide mouth and eyes of slanted brown ... that man understood what it was to love so deeply it was a kind of beautiful madness.

Nalini Singh

#30. Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

Thomas Edward Brown

#31. A fool shouts charge when he should retreat, A coward shouts retreat when he should charge and a wise man knows the difference. I charge.

Tonny K. Brown

#32. If a man fights with truth, in time, he will be victorious. If he fights with lies, after he is exposed; in time, he will be left alone.

Tonny K. Brown

#33. Vile Father's brown nipples, on the ends of his pendulous man-cans, were like dried figs.

Lev Grossman

#34. Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him. Martin Luther

Dan Brown

#35. I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'

Ralph Brown

#36. We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH!

Drew Bundini Brown

#37. I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'

Samuel L. Jackson

#38. Dead man shouldn't have no fears. Makes his passing easier.

Samuel Snoek-Brown

#39. Hang a man for no real reason and you might get some grumblings from the townships. But force sobriety upon us, and you'll be picking up the pieces for a bloodydamn month.

Pierce Brown

#40. I'm married to a white man, and then my daughter came out looking like the whitest white child with blonde hair and blue eyes. And I'm like, 'Omigosh, now what am I going to do?' She has my mom's features and is lighter than my husband. And my boy is browner than I am. Brown eyes and really tan.

Karyn Parsons

#41. Very little in any organized faith is truly original. Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage ... an assimilated historical record of man's quest to understand the divine.

Dan Brown

#42. In the gaunt, brown face in the mirror - unseen since late September - the blue eyes in a monkish skull seem eerily clear, but this is the face of a man I do not know.

Peter Matthiessen

#43. A double-minded man is unsure in all his ways.

Sandra Brown

#44. A man's attire is only an outward projection of his inward self ...

Chris Brown

#45. And what a man he is. Tall, but not too tall. Five o'clock shadow. Late twenties, early thirties. Piercing blue eyes. Short, brown hair that juts forward, matching his angular face. He's wearing an untucked, button-down white shirt and dark-grey slacks. He looks disheveled in the best way possible.

Samantha Riley

#46. In school they told us the president was the best man in the whole country but I knew my father was the best man in the whole country; the country didn't know it, that's all.

Rita Mae Brown

#47. Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.

H. Rap Brown

#48. Michael Brown happened to be black. Trayvon Martin happened to be black. Eric Garner was a black man. So this pattern continues over and over.

William Lacy Clay Jr.

#49. Over the last fifty years," the tall man declared, "our sins against Mother Nature have grown exponentially." He paused. "I fear for the soul of humankind.

Dan Brown

#50. Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Bob Brown

#51. You can point to the alleged miracles of the Bible, or any other religious text, but they are nothing but old stories fabricated by man and then exaggerated over time.

Dan Brown

#52. The world in which we live is held together by love.
The world in which we love is held together by fate.
The world in which we die is of our own making.
Death comes from hatred and man is the only creature who hates, stronger than he loves.

Tara Brown

#53. The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

H. Rap Brown

#54. It is never hard to convince a man of something he already wants to believe

Tonny K. Brown

#55. It is clear that any sexual relationship other than that between a legally wedded heterosexual husband and wife is sinful. The divine mandate of marriage between man and woman puts in perspective why homosexual acts are offensive to God. They repudiate the gift and the Giver of eternal life.

Victor L. Brown

#56. Once there the main man, the bearded preacher, bridles and jabs, spasms and gurns like a pre-ejaculatory James Brown.

Russell Brand

#57. Heavens," said Galdo in a deep, dramatic voice, "only one man living could have squeezed forth such a gleaming brown jewel
this is the work of Squatting Calo, the Midnight Shitter!

Scott Lynch

#58. Jane decided he was certainly beautiful, with brown eyes and a well-shaped nose. It is a refreshing thing for an ordinary-looking woman to look at a beautiful man occasionally and Jane gave herself up to contemplation.

Barbara Pym

#59. What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?

Rita Mae Brown

#60. The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

John Mason Brown

#61. It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist

Dan Brown

#62. I would not have raised you to be a great man. There is no peace for great men. I would have had you be a decent one. I would have given you the quiet strength to grow old with the woman you love. Now all I can give you is a chance.

Pierce Brown

#63. It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

Anna Julia Cooper

#64. I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel; But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face, That cold, unheeding, frigid brown, Where neither rage nor fear has place, By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#65. When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do.

Helen Gurley Brown

#66. There was a man of the cloth - Reverend Shibata of the First Baptist Church - who left urging everyone to forgive and forget. There was a man in a shiny brown suit - fry cook Kanda of Yabu Noodle - who left urging Reverend Shibata to give it a rest.

Julie Otsuka

#67. I hate how my body shivers at the idea of glory. There's something deep in man that hungers for this. But I think it weakness, not strength, to abandon decency for that strange darker spirit.

Pierce Brown

#68. In ancient mythology," Langdon offered, "a hero in denial is the ultimate manifestation of hubris and pride. No man is more prideful than he who believes himself immune to the dangers of the world.

Dan Brown

#69. [T]he commitment of time, money and man power necessary for a capital case is enormous and it takes from other cases. But I think what bothers me most is that it offers to the families of the victims and the survivors a false sense of closure.

Richard Brown

#70. He is a strange, resolute, repulsive, iron-willed, inexorable old man, [possessing] a firey nature and a cold temper, and a cooler head--a volcano beneath a covering of snow.

William A. Phillips

#71. Freya, I killed a man.

Kate Lord Brown

#72. God bless the woman who'd invented air-conditioning. Okay, it might have been a man, but I'll bet you dollars to earthworms that a woman nagged him into it.

Carolyn Brown

#73. You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy.

Shemar Moore

#74. In his eyes I glimpse the loneliness, the longing for a life that should have been, and the glimmer of the man he wants to be underneath the man he thinks he has to be.

Pierce Brown

#75. A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

David Antin

#76. The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation
of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and
black.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#77. Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.

Pierce Brown

#78. -I swore an oath...to honor the Compact, to bring justice to the Society of Man. You swore the same. But you forgot what that meant. Everyone has. That is why this world is broken. Maybe the next one can be better.-

-This world is the best we can afford.-

Pierce Brown

#79. I've never been a man of joy or a man of war, or an island in a storm. Never an absolute like Lorn. That was what I pretended to be. I am and always have been a man who is made complete by those around him. I

Pierce Brown

#80. Get some man-killing meat on your bones. No more of this anorexic scarecrow shit.

Pierce Brown

#81. No man got an erection from looking at "brown string sandals.

Mary Roach

#82. So dark the con of man.

Dan Brown

#83. The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato, and making a snug bed even there of some hair left after plastering and of brown paper; for even the wildest animals love comfort and warmth as well as man, and they survive the winter only because they are so careful to secure them.

Henry David Thoreau

#84. The seed of a blue lupin will usually produce a blue lupin. But the seed of a blue-eyed man may produce a brown-eyed bore ... especially if his wife has a taste for gigolos.

Beverley Nichols

#85. He cast his eyes upon her and the trouble soon began, cause Leroy Brown learned a lesson about messing with the wife of a jealous man.

Jim Croce

#86. When God made man she was practicing.

Rita Mae Brown

#87. The woman raked her gaze up his body as if checking out livestock. As she reached his face, her kohl-rimmed brown eyes lit with a challenge. "I am the one you know as Hamid Nabil Hassan. The most wanted man in the world.

Brynn Kelly

#88. Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.

Dan Brown

#89. But that man is gone. I mourn his passing every day. Forgetting more and more of who I was, what dreams I held, what things I loved. The sadness now is numb. And I carry on despite the shadow it casts over me.

Pierce Brown

#90. If ever you find yourself in a situation where man cant help you, call on God.

Hugh B. Brown

#91. If we were all our most real and raw selves every moment of the day things would be just awful. The world would be full of man-size toddlers.

Kelly Williams Brown

#92. For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an ascetic animal. He remains a pleasure-seeking animal.

Norman O. Brown

#93. I am neither a free-trade man, willing to collect all the money we have to raise by direct tax upon the people, nor am I willing to lay a tax simply for protection when the Government does not need the money.

Joseph E. Brown

#94. Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking ... about me becoming a man.

Chris Brown

#95. I remember as a young man seeing these bigger-than-life, strong images of black manhood in the form of Jim Brown and Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Billy Dee Williams. All these guys were these alpha males who were smart, attractive. I said, 'Wow, I want to be like that.'

Michael Jai White

#96. Are you a devil?"
"I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart.

G.K. Chesterton

#97. Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.

Steve Brown

#98. Man must confront his worst fear to find his virtue.

Angela Brown

#99. Jackson's father said she was built like Marilyn Monroe and had the temperament of Maureen O'Hara. The man was a prophet for sure.

Carolyn Brown

#100. In truth, if I admitted to the world that I believe God made me as I am, the church would excommunicate me, but I know this to be true. I am not an evil man - nor greedy, nor cruel to those in need. Yet the law would have me hang for love, the purest of human emotions.

H.C. Brown