Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beau Bridges

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

Bear Grylls

As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

Edmund White

Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard

Bobby Heenan

I asked Stu Hart earlier. I said, 'Stu, you gotta be proud of your boys.' He said, 'I have boys?'

Arthur Conan Doyle

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

Barry White

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

Arundhati Roy

When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had been. His smile was the only piece of baggage he had carried with him from boyhood into manhood.

Anthony Trollope

Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates. Social meetings are periods of penance to them, and any appearance in public will unnerve them. They go much about alone, and blush when women speak to them. In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years; and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy.

Azealia Banks

White boys do eat pussy better than everyone else, though, I will say that. Maybe it's those thin white-boy lips!

Diana Wynne Jones

Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth in the way they wanted to hear it, so that they thought they had won and left you in peace.

Daniel Handler

Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of an opera performance. And I also was a boy soprano, so before puberty hit, I was onstage playing a wide variety of orphans and urchins in all sorts of operas, and the sheer melodrama of their stories was just always appealing to me.

Daniel Handler

The right boys I always toss and the wrong ones I keep on top of me like paperweights.

Dan Stevens

I've been a lucky boy.

Craig Kilborn

Singer Boy Dylan was stopped at his own sow by security guards who failed to recognize the singer. Asked to comment, Dylan replied, 'I can hardly blame them. Look at me.'

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.

B. C. Forbes

The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman, the prizes will be for those who most effectively exert their brains, who take deep, earnest and studious counsel of their minds, who stamp themselves as thinkers.

ASAP Rocky

When I started, I was 23 years old directing my own music videos; I'm co-producing on my album; I'm hands-on with everything. I'm more than just a pretty boy: I'm an artist. I'm not saying I'm a hip-hop music artist, I'm an artiste.

Ben Stein

I hope it won't come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.

Bear Bryant

There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.

Barbara Ehrenreich

A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically, the mood of the men in the pinstripes, also known as the Boys on the Street. When the Boys are in a good mood, the market thrives; when they get scared or sullen, it is time for each one of us to look into the retail apple business.

There is a real danger here that this can become a political issue, that this young boy will be a political football. And I think the president has made it very clear to everyone that they ought to stay away from politics here and stick to what the facts and the law dictate.

We dedicate a healthy, happy, safe learning place for our boys and girls today.

Gigi Hadid

In third grade, I played basketball with the boys every day at lunch. I had braces that were yellow and purple, and I wore full Laker uniforms to school.

Gideon Raff

Here in Israel, we want the boys back home, we demand it from our government, who often pay a steep price to get hostages back. But we need a happy ending. We don't want to deal with those days after release, their post-trauma or reintroduction to society. Yet coming home is only the start of their journey.

Steve Borden

We hope to have our boys play this tournament. Hopefully by next week, we should have a team of five varsity boys.

Ricky Martin

Yes, it was a boy band. Everything, they tell you what to do.

Charles Bukowski

Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I don't need anything.' 'You poor boy.

Pink

I feel like I 'get' boys. I've always been a boy's girl. Boys are easy; they just break stuff.

David Schwimmer

The reality is, Jennifer and I can do our job well because we truly are friends. But when the day's over, she goes home to her boyfriend and I go home to a magazine.

Bruce Springsteen

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.

Brad Pitt

When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.

Jane Campion

The studio system is kind of an old boys system and it's difficult for them to trust women to be capable