Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cyril Cusack

I was rather a fat little boy.

We had a couple opportunities early. I don't know if we didn't get the right shot, or it was wide or just good saves. But once it happened, the boys didn't let up.

Imogen Heap

Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.

Issa Rae

It was jarring to be berated for 'acting white' when I was placed in a predominantly black middle school in Southern California. I was also chubby, into boys who weren't into me, and tried too hard to fit into this 'blackness' I was supposed to be.

Israel Horovitz

I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys from these Massachusetts towns would sit in his car and learn the lessons.

Donna Karan

Originally, back in 1992, DKNY started because I couldn't find a pair of jeans. I also wanted to dress my teenage daughter Gabby. So it was the perfect street wardrobe: jeans, anoraks, jumpsuits, boyfriend jackets, sweaters, skirts and dresses. Then DKNY grew into an entire lifestyle concept, including tailored clothes you wear to work.

Christian Kane

I wrote 'Happy Man' with a couple of boys of mine. I have been writing in Nashville for a long time. Of course I was writing songs back in Oklahoma when I was a kid.

Charlie Kimball

I have a lot of great racing memories growing up in Europe as a young boy - playing with car parts on my dad's desk, watching the races on Sunday afternoons to try and spot him on TV, even having the chance to go to Formula 1 races where he was working.

Emily Berrington

I always thought that at the very time of your life when you want to be cool and sexy and fascinating, you are none of those things. You are a hormonal muddle in your school uniform sitting in double science looking at a boy who you know will never notice you. That was definitely me; I was so shy at school.

Huston Smith

In my town, I had only one adult American male role model: my father. I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

Hugh Laurie

Muddy Waters, I suppose, was my first great hero. You know, every boy wants to be a guitar player, and Muddy Waters was just the king. He was the King Bee. He was it.

Holly Madison

I'm thrilled to start my family with a little girl! My boyfriend and I couldn't be happier!

Mark Twain

In 'Huckleberry Finn,' I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.

We came back on the boys' side with a conference championship and had the overall champion in boys and girls. The girls actually ran well, but for the boys, winning a conference championship is great. The kids really wanted it. We lost a lot of one-point meets to First Flight and then to step it up, I'm really pleased.

We picked up lots of points in the distance runs. Several of the boys had personal records and they continue to progress.

Robbie Williams

I think that, to a lot of people, they don't like my brand of whatever I do. And I think that people - the ones that like me, at least - see me as their brother or their older uncle or their friend or their next door neighbour. I am the quintessential boy next door; I feel that way.

Rivers Cuomo

Certainly, the Beach Boys and the early Beatles records were a huge influence on me lyrically.

Fifty years ago, everyone read a few general-interest publications such as the Saturday Evening Post and Life magazine. Today, there's an explosion of specialty publications. People are doing what they are interested in. If they're interested in working with children, they work with the Boy Scouts.

Jon Scieszka

Fiction is always pushed in schools as the holy grail of reading. Boys tend to like non-fiction more.

But now that he's down in Florida, I think he's doing it for the girls, to try to impress them. Boys will do anything when they're trying to get a girl's attention.

But Martin came back for her. That's what kind of boy he was.

Percy Sledge

I was a little boy singing sad songs, about 9 or 10 years old in the woods. I listened to my voice coming back to me. It was as high as you could go. I dreamed of being famous as a singer when I was on those cotton fields. I wanted to see the world and meet people.

Judith Butler

Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate representative of the Jewish people would a movement calling for divestment, sanctions and boycott against that state be understood as directed against the Jewish people as a whole.

Dalai Lama

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

Rick Moranis

When I was a little kid, it was not uncommon for a cousin or an uncle, before they would even say 'Hello,' to gush, 'You know, your mother's brisket is just incredible; it's so good.' That was an inspiration for creating a love song in that well-worn terrain of the relationship between a Jewish boy and his mother.

Michael Caine

People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they could become actors.

Malala Yousafzai

Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.

Pamela Anderson

I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.

We have three sets of identical boys, one set of identical girls and two sets of fraternal twins. We've always had a couple sets, but it never jumped out at us until the other day when we were going through our roster.

We have the issues of poor people and privacy left over because all the big boys have already gotten what they want,

Scott Skiles

Typical dad stuff, ... Spending time with my two boys, going to their little league games. And following the NBA, like always.

Tyler is starting to play like the Tyler of old. The other boys didn't play other sports this summer and he did. He divided his time and didn't play many tournaments.

Bernie Bickerstaff

You know what he's good at? He can make shots, and boy he must have a strong chest.