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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.

Forest Whitaker

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

Richard Whately

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Richard Whately

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Richard Whately

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

Richard Whately

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

Richard Whately

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.