Famous Quotes & Sayings

Florence King

In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny to tell Pooky that they belong to the same tribe, while among the good old boys it serves the cause of masculine dominance by identifying Bear and Wrecker as Alpha males.

Florence Welch

At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. I would only wear one American Apparel T-shirt and shorts and brogues the whole year round. Not the same T-shirt, obviously, but one style of American Apparel T-shirt. I think I was going through a tomboy stage.

Florence Welch

I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.

Flavor Flav

Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.

Flannery O'Connor

You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!

Cassandra Clare

Lord, you're Irish," said Will. "Can you make things that don't have potatoes in them? We had an Irish cook once when I was a boy. Potato pie, potato custard, potatoes with potato sauce...

Cassandra Clare

Hurry up, mundie boy, we've got work to do.

Cassandra Clare

Alec drew his hand back with a low whistle. "The Inquisitor meant business." "Of course she did. I'm a dangerous criminal. Or hadn't you heard?" Jace heard the acid in his own tone, saw Alec flinch, and was meanly, momentarily, glad. "She didn't call you a criminal, exactly..." "No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nun

Cassandra Clare

You’re my sister,” he said finally. “My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you”—he laughed soundlessly and without any humor—“to protect you from the sort of boys who want to do with you exactly what I want to do.

Cassandra Clare

Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks.

Cassandra Clare

But that was Isabelle — if there was a boy around and blame that needed to be pinned on someone, Isabelle would pin it on him

Gillian Jacobs

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

Giancarlo Esposito

I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.

Harold Russell

To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes.

Jacques Audiard

I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis! Then when that boy grew up, he began to uncover things. We began to legitimately ask the question, 'What exactly did our parents do during the Occupation?' We discovered it was not the story they were telling us.

Jack Youngblood

Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.

Elton John

The Backstreet Boys can sing their asses off. I'm not so sure about those other boy bands. But Backstreet Boys have my ultimate respect.

Jerry O'Connell

I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house now. Everything is pink!

Jeff Bezos

I feel like in one year it's very easy to go from Internet poster boy to Internet piсata.

Jeffrey Bernard

When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate.

Jim Hightower

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

Jim Henson

Cara: *Flies* Gen: What? I don't have wings! Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.

Jerry Spinelli

The blanket was there, but it was the boy's embrace that covered and warmed him.

Jerome K. Jerome

I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is brief, and you might pass away before I had finished. But I will tell you what is NOT the matter with me. I have not got housemaid’s knee. Why I have not got housemaid’s knee, I cannot tell you; but the fact remains that I have not got it. Everything else, however, I HAVE got.

Jerome K. Jerome

It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.

Jensen Ackles

I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't sound very hot to me.

Jim Gaffigan

I'm kind of like a guy who's missing a little bit of the guy gene. Like, I love steak, but the notion of golfing is the last thing I would want to do. I love women, but I'm also a mama's boy, and some of my best friends are women. So I'm kinda half guy's guy.

Jesse McCartney

The first record I ever listened to was Elvis Presley, and I remember thinking, 'Man this guy is cool!' The swagger he had really helped my confidence, because he really made me think that a white boy could make music like this.

James A. Garfield

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

James A. Baldwin

Whose little boy are you?

James A. Baldwin

Such figures as Boy George do not disturb me nearly so much as do those relentlessly hetero (sexual?) keepers of the keys and seals, those who know what the world needs in the way of order and who are ready and willing to supply that order.

George Harrison

We were the Spice Boys.

Gary Busey

Boy, it's a tough planet if you want it to be. But a great planet if you let it.