Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his ‘English prep’ and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all.

C. S. Lewis

Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the grass was soaking wet. His name was unfortunately Eustace Scrubb but he wasn't a bad sort.

Mark Twain

We have nine children now half boys and half girls.

Mark Jackson

We have never won the national title. There will be some good teams there and it will be hard. The boys had a couple of days off after the Auckland final but are now back into training.

Gloria Smith

We want our students to be A students and we know they can do it. There are special items for B students such as bracelets and things for boys like fire trucks and chess sets.

Aaron Sorkin

Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,

Alan Trammell

I'm a big boy. I've been through enough that I understand how things are.

Charles Dudley Warner

A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.

Charles Dudley Warner

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

Uzo Aduba

I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.

Brian Eno

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

Dianne Wiest

Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.

David Naughton

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

Jason Aldean

Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.

Janina Gavankar

I want to do a musical so bad. I don't care what it is. I'm not picky. I just want to do a musical. I'm shameless, but it's true.

Chris Colfer

I grew up doing musical theater.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.

Louis C. K.

Everybody is different. Some comedy is more musical like Steven Wright. His is a pillar of comedy to me. He invented a whole form and all his jokes are poems. So it's different. I wanted to do it like George Carlin. Now I do it like me.

Nick Russo

We want to preserve and protect Mississippi's rich architectural and archaeological heritage as communities restore and rebuild.

Brian Sandoval

I am proud of my heritage and my family.

David Wong

When we went to them and told them that we want to do a heritage tour of Hong Kong, a lot of them were very skeptical,

Barbra Streisand

My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?

Catherine Ponder

When you realize that prosperity is your divine heritage, you should persist in claiming it.

Allan Cunningham

While the hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea.

Bible Bible

There is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works, for that is his heritage

Sholem Asch

Heritage is Scriptures . . . which have become absorbed into our blood.

S. Walker

We're older, poorer, less well insured and more rural than much of the rest of the country. ... But our heritage is rural. We shouldn't have to give that up to have quality care.