Famous Quotes & Sayings

James M. Barrie

Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.

James M. Barrie

Boy, why are you crying?

James M. Barrie

What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.

James M. Barrie

But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.

Joe Pantoliano

Bad Boys II has knocked everyone's socks off.

Joe Perry

I don't want fans to think we're clean, upstanding American boys, but we are Americans, and we do stand up.

John Galliano

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

John Dykstra

Boy, am I glad there wasn't a fourth episode of Lord of the Rings.

John McGraw

The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.

John Benjamin Hickey

Actually caffeine is too hard on my system. I'm a delicate boy from Plano, Texas.

Joel Madden

You can only start a boy band if you kill one of the other ones already out there.

Joe Lando

Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.

Joe Lando

I'm the poster boy for Propecia. It's amazing.

Joan Smalls

I would always hunch over, I was always taller than the boys. I had the extremely skinny legs... I would double up my socks, those ones from Footlocker, to make my legs look thicker.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

George Crabbe

Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy, And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.

Geezer Butler

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

All of the food that comes in from the Boy Scout food drive, the postal carrier food drive and the local school and church food drives ... goes right back out into the community. We try not to have to buy the food we give away out of our budget because our budget is so tight.

All of the boys had lifetime-best swims and all three relays were season-bests.

All the boys, they ran just ran tremendously today. Of the 10 boys that ran today, only three of them have high school experience of running a competitive 5K race. Of the inexperience we have, I thought they had a great night.

All the big boys don't want it. That'll be the end of this place.

And a nice little boy had a nice cake of soap, / Worthy of washing the hands of the Pope.

Edward Albee

If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about the comedy boys, I'm talking about the more serious writers - it seems inevitable that almost every one has been encouraged until the critics feel that they have built them up beyond the point where they can control them; then it's time to knock them down again.

Michelle Mone

The market was striving for newness and someone to bring a new concept and invention. We shook the industry up from the big boys who had had the market to themselves. We got lots of PR, invented products and took a market share.

Holly Johnson

Let's face it I am not Joan Collins or Boy George.

Holly Black

He looks like the good boy he's never been.

Jonathan Winters

I was talking to a businessman, and I said, Don't you think most men are little boys? And he said, I'm no little boy! I make seventy-five thousand dollars a year. And I said, Well, the way I look at it - you just have bigger toys.

Jonathan Stroud

Jabor finally appeared at the top of the stairs, sparks of flame radiating from his body and igniting the fabric of the house around him. He caught sight of the boy, reached out his hand and stepped forward. And banged his head nicely on the low-slung attic door.

Jonathan Stroud

The bristling eyebrows shot up in mock surprise. Mesmerized, the boy watched them disappear under the hanging thatch of white hair. There, almost coyly, they remained just out of sight for a moment, before suddenly descending with a terrible finality and weight.

Jonathan Stroud

I warn you," the boy went on. "I am a magician of great power. I control many terrifying entities. This being you see before you" - here I rolled my shoulders back and puffed my chest up menacingly - "is but the meanest and least impressive of my slaves." (Here I slumped my shoulders and stuck my stomach out.)

Kevin Spacey

I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasnt good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.

Kevin Brockmeier

I might not remember how the sky looked on any given day. I do remember, though, what it was like to be a boy beneath a sky.

Kevin Brockmeier

I had always been the kind of boy who was quick to laugh and quick to cry.