Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. G. Ballard

At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.

Amanda Lindhout

When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.

Jim Lovell

Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.

Lucas Neill

There are three games to go and those three games come in a short space of time, and the boys are now counting down five training sessions left for the season.

There is just one problem here - we're not in a jungle and boys aren't lions.

John Updike

Upon shaving off one's beard." The scissors cut the long-grown hair; the razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, bug-eyed, I stare at the forgotten boy I was.

Christopher Stanley

I know my way around the kitchen. I like to cook, so I can fry an egg. I guess I could be a fry cook at Bob's Big Boy or something, or maybe a sous chef somewhere a little nicer. I would like to do that. I think I can probably pick that up pretty quickly.

Walter Dean Myers

Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the sounds of children streaming in and out of red brick tenements.

I got into this thing called the National Youth Theatre, and to me, that was all about the status quo. It seemed to me like 'Downton Abbey' - all the working-class and black people were playing servants, or the gravedigger in 'Hamlet,' and the boys from Eton and posh private schools got Hamlet, all the big roles.

Bill O'Reilly

Single parent situations drive poverty and often lead to unsupervised kids. Many boys growing up without fathers often feel angry and abandoned. Thus, they seek comfort in all the wrong places.

Lisa Bonet

Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts.

Connie Mack

The question is whether this government should use force to remove a 6-year-old boy from a family home in America. That's the question. And I think it is outrageous. I think it is horrifying to tell you the truth, that we would use excessive force like that,

Times were a little faster this year, however, so I wasn't too disappointed that the boys didn't take all of the top five spots. We ran a very patient race... it was really more of a warm-up for us.

Lucy Punch

I remember I had a boyfriend a long time ago who said, 'You need to change your name; you sound like a circus performer.'

Ezekiel Emanuel

Our dad hugged us and kissed us so much that some friends and relatives complained that he was going to turn us into sissies or homosexuals. But my dad didn't care. Let them raise their kids in a reserved and reticent way. He grew up in Israel, and his boys were going to be hugged and kissed by their father and know they were loved.

Cayden Boyd

I've always loved superheroes, and I'm sure every single kid out there is gonna love these superheroes and want to see 'Shark Boy and Lava Girl'... and the fact that it's in 3-D.

Rachel Nichols

They say that women dress for other women, but I don't think that's entirely true. If we want to look flossy out-and-about on a Friday night, we're dressing for the boys - and it's nice when they notice.

Cassandra Clare

I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying in publishing that girls will read about boys, but boys will only read about boys, and it's important to give women strong heroines.

We played as a team today. I'm very proud of my boys.

We play better with the lead, but I think most teams do. We told our boys that that needed to be our focus ? to get a lead and then try to hold onto it.

We practiced defending the last two days and the boys executed exactly the way we planned. We really haven't been playing that well lately but this definitely makes us legit.

Ted Naifeh

I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.

Salma Hayek

You know how macho boys get when they're all together? Well, the set of 'Desperado' was like that. They were all trying to put me down, saying, 'Bring on the stuntwoman, Salma can't do that.' But I did everything.

Seth Gabel

'Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.

Tamala Jones

I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around boys and men my whole life. I get them. I get men.

I thought we played well as a team. We have nine sophomores and eight of them played. We're young and we're still learning each other. There are some things we need to work on, the boys know that.

Colin Clarke

I thought the boys were magnificent, ... They come to compete, they come to play from the first whistle. . . . We're a good league, a strong league with a lot of good players.

I think we kicked 4.6 in the third quarter, and seven points straight in the last - but the boys were pretty tired so I am going to take that into account, certainly in the last quarter.

I think we played a great game. Even though we were scoreless in the second quarter the boys didn't quit.

Julie White

I think that, on television and in film, I will continue to be the mother to hot boys until, inevitably, I am their grandmother.

I thought our midfielders did not show enough respect to young Allan and the other boy (Harding).

I thought our guys were flat, but (CDS) is a good team, definitely a talented team. I think the lesson from this is our boys need to show up in a highly aggressive, competitive state of mind.

I think what the boys have done, not just today, but since the winter break, is sensational.