A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Yes, I’m always – I’m always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

I pull no punches!

A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Temptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Man is by nature a political animal.

The little man is still a man.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

The secret to humor is surprise.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Man, all lives matter.

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.

When I put out ‚Video Games‘ in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

I’m always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put ‚page 2.‘

God created man, but I could do better.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

It was something I never expected to – I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

To Sun-tzu and the ancient Chinese, doing something extraordinary had little effect without a setup of something ordinary. You had to mix the two – to fix your opponent’s expectations with some banal, ordinary maneuver, a comfortable pattern that they would then expect you to follow.

There’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.