Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella.

Charles Dickens

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

Charles Dickens

"Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.

Charles Dickens

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking,-hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk as boys.

Alanis Morissette

So many boys, so little time...

Alan Rickman

There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.

Alan Bennett

We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place. Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale....Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this, culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, "And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?

Alan Alda

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

Al Sharpton

I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.

We want to send as many boys and girls to the district meet as we can and maybe get some individuals and relays to state.

Chick Hearn

I always like to pretend two things: one, I'm sitting in the seat beside you watching the game together. I'll say, 'Wasn't that a great shot? Boy, it sure was.' The other thing I do is pretend I'm talking to people who are non-sighted. I try to create a word picture. I get more mail from blind people thanking me.

David Sedaris

Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.

David Grisman

It was around that time, early 60s. There were like three kindred spirits in New Jersey. I had two friends who played folk music, old-time music and bluegrass and we started a little band called the Garret Mountain Boys.

Dave Barry

Lobsters displays all three of the classic biological characteristics of an insect, namely: 1. It has way more legs than necessary. 2. There is no way you would ever pet it. 3. It does not respond to simple commands such as "Here, boy!"

Buddy Holly

Oh boy, when you're with me. Oh boy, I want the world to see that you were meant for me.

Buffalo Bill

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

Buffalo Bill

The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.

Bryan Brown

I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.

Camille Paglia

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

Caleb Landry Jones

Well, I'm a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood.

Cal Hubbard

Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.

Caitlin Moran

You are educated equally to boys. You're expected to go into equal employment with boys. In a marriage, you are legally equal. So, you know, you cannot deny we live in a feminist world.

Caitlin Moran

I know people go on about Twitter, but it is amazing. It's whatever you want it to be, and all the women got in there before the boys.

Caitlin Moran

I have a rule for working out if the root problem of something is, in fact, sexism. And it is this: asking 'Are the boys doing it? Are the boys having to worry about this stuff? Are the boys the centre of a gigantic global debate on this subject?

The performances of our boys and girls are normal.

The point of all that is, they still decline to turn over the boy to his father. We could go to Miami and knock on the door and we could come out without the boy. That's unacceptable to us. The central issue is whether this boy is going to be restored to his father,

We are pretty sure that the boys were seventh and the girls tied for fifth, but I don't even know who we tied.

We've already got to Twickenham so we have got nothing to lose. The boys are relaxed and positive. We are going to have a lot of support there so we are looking forward to the day.

We started out when our two boys were early teenagers and we wanted to show them the country. I guess we've been in every state of the Union except Hawaii and Alaska.

We are looking forward to Saturday's game as we will not only have a full, team but we will even have a player to spare on the bench. Recruiting boys to play has paid off.

Bobby Bowden

There are changes. Just like all times, there are good boys and some who are mischievous.

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