Quotes of: Ordinary-man Keyword

Daniel Dravot: Let him put *that* in his paper. If he is in need of news.

The Man Who Would Be King

Ed Crane: My wife and I have not performed the sex act in many years.

The Man Who Wasn't There

[after telling Crane his wife has been arrested] Officer Persky: Crap detail...

The Man Who Wasn't There

Tom Doniphon: [to Ransom Stoddard] Hey, pilgrim! You forgot your pop-gun!

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Liberty Valance: [Raising his gun] This time, right between the eyes.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

[Nino points a gun at Chiki] Nino: Now... tell me. Who started the war? Chiki: [long pause] We did.

No Man's Land

[first title card] Title card: "Rejoice O young man in thy youth..." - Ecclesiastes

Platoon

Patton: Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man. If mountain ranges and oceans can be overcome, then anything built by man can be overcome.

Patton

H.I.: I"m in here on my knees, Ed, a free man proposing. Howdy, Kurt.

Raising Arizona

Private Cox: [beating up Mason] English prick. I tell you my old man was Irish?

The Rock

Niki Lauda: A wise man can learn more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Rush

Old Man: Shut up you bitch hog!

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Old Man: Look... I got some good barbecue here!

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Old Man: [to Leatherface] You... you damn fool! You ruined the door!

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Old Man: [to Sally] Just take it easy now.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

Aldo Leopold

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Erich Fromm

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.

Elihu Root

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

Samuel Adams