Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Bush

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

Anurag Kashyap

I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.

Edward R. Murrow

It appeared that most of the men and boys had died of starvation; they had not been executed. But the manner of death seemed unimportant. Murder had been done at Buchenwald. God alone knows how many men and boys have died there during the last twelve years.

Nobu Matsuhisa

When I was 11 or 12 - a young boy in Japan - one of my older brothers took me to a sushi restaurant. I had never been to one, and it was very memorable. Back then, sushi was expensive and hard to come by, not like today, when there's a sushi restaurant on every street corner and you can buy it in supermarkets.

Thomas Arnold

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Ricky Gervais

Piracy doesn't kill music, boy bands do.

Tahmoh Penikett

When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.

Brent Scowcroft

Much of what we know about mathematics and trade comes from the Arabs. Then came stagnation, and now they're the West's whipping boy. This is a problem that cannot be solved overnight, and certainly not militarily.

Brent Weeks

A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.

Booth Tarkington

This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never knows. And punishment and clemency are alike inexplicable.

Booth Tarkington

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.

Bob Dylan

There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one.

Boy George

A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there's a lot of DJs making records, they're not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.

Boy George

Leigh [Bowery] affected a posh English voice and elongated his vowels, and you never knew if he was being sincere or mocking you. If I ever commented on one of his outfits he would snip, "Oh, thank you, Mr. Boy George. I do value your opinion." And then he would spin and make some ridiculous noise and mince off.

Scott Johnson

We have kept the faith with the majority of the side that underperformed in Dublin and told them to go out there on Saturday and put things right. The boys have a second chance to prove what they are capable of and that the last outing was just a blip.

Bruce Boxleitner

As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time.

Brian Littrell

Ill always be a Backstreet Boy.

Brian Littrell

Hi I'm B-Rok of the Backstreet Boys, Jim Carrey wannabe.

Brandon Sanderson

Boys, welcome to the wonderful world of talking to women about their feelings. As a handy primer, here are a few things you should know: 1) Women have feelings. 2) You will spend the next seventy years or so trying to guess what they're feeling and why. 3) You will be wrong most of the time. 4) I like French Fries.

Brandon Sanderson

The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago; he probably begged out of habit rather than expectation.

Brandon Sanderson

Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.

Barbara Kingsolver

He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.

Ashton Irwin

Do I look like I know how to twerk? I'm a small blonde boy.

Chauncey Billups

We're healthy. A couple of our guys sat out, a couple of our young boys got an opportunity to play. They all played well, so we're fine.

This really is a crucial tournament for us and all the boys are fired up.

Lisa Snowdon

There are way prettier girls than me, and there always will be. But at the end of the day: you could be insecure about every boyfriend you're with.

Barbara Stanwyck

The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

Arthur Miller

A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger.

Ayelet Waldman

I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.

Coco Chanel

I trained myself. Long ago, `Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

Coco Chanel

If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself.