We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>