I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way. - Elvis Costello But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve. - Elvis Costello The transition between BPM III and IV is often associated with visions of consuming fires. These flames destroy everything that is corrupt or rotten in our lives, preparing us for renewal and rebirth. It is interesting that in the corresponding stage of delivery many mothers feel that their entire genital areas are on fire. - Stanislav Grof

So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero. - Joe Abercrombie When is this old moneybags doing to give up and die as any decent man would do? I am tired of standing at his door. - Thomas B Costain No decent man ought to read Shakespeare's sonnets because it was like listening at keyholes. - Virginia Woolf But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky I was a coward and a slave. I say this without the ...

TO RECOGNISE UNTRUTH AS A CONDITION OF LIFE; that is certainly to impugn the traditional ideas of value in a dangerous manner, and a philosophy which ventures to do so, has thereby alone placed itself beyond good and evil. - Friedrich Nietzsche He is a man, I think," he said, "who cares for nothing but a joke. He is a dangerous man." Lambert laughed in the act of lifting some macaroni to his mouth. "Dangerous!" he said. "You don't know little Quin, sir!" "Every man is dangerous," said the old man, without moving, "Who cares only for one thing. I was once dangerous myself. - Gilbert K Chesterton The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it. - Francis Crick It was so like Smith's work, so much more like the top of a strongly spiked wall than a head of hair, that the best of players at leap-frog might have declined him, as the most dangerous man in the world to go over. - Char...

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool. - Mark Twain - Mark Twain Oh, Alan Ryves," she said. "You're such a fantastic liar. You are the smoothest con man of them all. - Sarah Rees Brennan Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie. - Ally Carter The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it. - Ken Kesey A good lawyer is part con man, part priest -- promising riches, threatening hell. My ethical rules are simple. I won't lie to the court or let a client do it. But I've never been in this position. How far would I go for a woman who mattered? Is there anything I wouldn't do to win? - Paul Levine Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day. - J D Salinger

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor. - Raymond Chandler To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is "remains." To be a complete man means to have the passions obedient to the will and the will offered to God: to have been a man to be an ex-man or "damned ghost" would presumably mean to consist of a will utterly centered in its self and passions utterly uncontrolled by the will. - C S Lewis Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius. - Karl Friedrich Schlegel

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man. - William Allen White Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by the common man in centuries, he had all about him the ruin of language, evidence of toppled suburbs, grass growing among the mosaics, and voices that had been choked with poison, iron, age, or ash. - M T Anderson The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon. - Norman Angell The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man. - William Beveridge There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war. - Ernest Bevin I am no one special. Just a common man with common thoughts. There ar...

I have found my star. She is beauty and grace. Elegance and goodness. My laughter in winter. She is courageous and strong. Bold and tempting. Unlike any other in all the universe, and I cannot touch her. I dare not even try. Astrid or Aphrodite, she is my Circe. Only instead of changing a man into an animal she has made the animal human. I am such a fucking idiot, wanting a star I can't have. But then, all stars are beyond human reach and I'm not even human. (Zarek) - Sherrilyn Kenyon The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. - Natalie Wood

when the boogie man goes to sleep he checks his closet for me - Chuck Norris I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man. - Edward Zwick

In dark ages, people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide, he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind old men as guides. - Heinrich Heine It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us. - Chinua Achebe The way Misha tells it, he drove like a blind man, giving the car almost full independence to feel its way along, bumping off things, only giving the wheel a spin with the tips of this fingers when the situation verged on life threatening. - Nicole Krauss Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside.. - Martin Amis A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they are fu...

I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time. - Josef Albers To quote Shirley Polanski, head waitress at the Humdinger Diner: "Beware of a big man whose stomach doesn't move when he laughs." I think a Chinese philosopher said it first, but these things trickle down to the food service community. - Joan Bauer It was the first smile of my life. Of course, that is a ridiculous thing to say; I had been smiled at often, the big man had smiled at me not a minute since. And yet I say: it was the first smile, because it was the first that ever went straight into me like a needle too thin to be seen. - Carol Birch Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy. - Mel Brooks What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after ...

I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it. - F Murray Abraham 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 There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster. - Barack Obama I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well. - Shigeru Miyamoto

Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man. - Paul Auster How hard, how bitter it is to become a man! - Albert Camus If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see how even divine omnipotence might by the force of its own love be swayed down to the world?...how it might, because it could know its own creatures only by compassion, put on mortal flesh, become a man, and walk among us, assume our nature and our fate, suffer our faults and our death? - Wendell Berry I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none - William Shakespeare Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend. - Anton Chekhov How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, ...

Love is not a thing you can pick up and throw into the gutter and pick up again as the fancy takes you. I am a person, very unfortunately for you, with a quite peculiar dread of thrusting myself or my affections on any one, of in any way outstaying my welcome. The man I would love would be the man I could trust to love me for ever. I do not trust you. I did outstay my welcome once. I did get thrown into the gutter, and came near drowning in that sordid place. - Elizabeth Von Arnim If you worked out enough, maybe the man would too. Maybe you would be able to work it out together, as if the two of you were a puzzle that could be solved; otherwise, one of you, most likely the man, taking his addictive body with him and leaving you with bad withdrawal, which you could counteract by exercise. If you didn't work it out it was because one of you had the wrong attitude. - Margaret Atwood Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads....

Livia held her spatula as Blake whispered in her ear. "I see us just like this a hundred years from now, old and deaf. I'll be the luckiest man." Emotion caught herthis was all she wanted. Simple, beautiful frittata moments with this man. "Someday, Livia, I'll be man enough to buy the food," he continued. "I'll give you an oven. I'll try so hard. - Debra Anastasia My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up. - Robert A Heinlein The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They're not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion - to care about people and about your children" (217) - John Singleton "Oh Man, I've Become My Father - Denzel Washington

Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man. - Jacob Bronowski But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was a chance to be a man--and for that, one murder is enough. - Aravind Adiga I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead." "Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job. - Cassandra Clare Oh, come on, Jace," Clary said. "You can't wait for perfect behavior from everyone. Adults screw up too. Go back to the Institute and talk to her rationally. Be a man." "I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager ...

They were both totally laughing, and he was twirling her, and her hair was flying around like she was in a shampoo commercial. Seriously. She could have sold conditioner to a bald man the way she looked out there. - Ally Carter Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough. - Larry David Women love a self-confident bald man. - Larry David A bald man made an attempt on Constant's life with a hot dog. Stabbed at the window glass with it. Splayed the bun. Broke the frankfurter. Left a sickly sunburst of mustard and relish. - Kurt Vonnegut I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican. - Roddy Doyle I was hot so I gave myself a haircut. I then saw a bald man sweating, so I offered to tweeze his eyebrows. He accepted and was so grateful that he offered to trade mustaches with me. In remembrance of that specia...

As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be - James Allen As a man thinketh Our remedies in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven - William Shakespeare The Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. - Dyan Cannon

Any man can do what he likes. Right, Splitfoot?' 'Right, Chief.' 'Just as long as it's exactly what I fucking tell 'em to do. - Joe Abercrombie Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error - Quintus Tullius Cicero Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at his ease before his own hearth.' 'Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how they may endure.' -Bergon and Cazaril talking over the past - Lois Mcmaster Bujold A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive. - Gilbert K Chesterton Any man can call tim...

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. - Mark Twain Habit " You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you "... - Mark Twain By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. - Mark Twain One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach. - George Ade Who cares if a man wants to marry another man? All i want to know is who's going to ick up all the dirty socks? - Sherman Alexie You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs. - Dante Alighieri Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular an...