Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, "Ah Maestro, you are a genius!" Paderewski tartly replied, "Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!" What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

Enrique Iglesias

The Backstreet Boys....they really do have good music!

Eoin Colfer

Holly winked. 'Do I look like a fly boy to you, Fowl?' Artemis had to admit that she didn't. Captain Short was extremely pretty in a dangerous sort of way. Black-widow pretty. Artemis was expecting puberty to hit in approximately eight months, and he suspected that at that point he would look at Holly in a different light. It was probably just as well that she was eighty years old.

Eoin Colfer

The miracle of modern science. The LEP pours millions into your department, Foaly, and all you can do is send Mud Boys to the toilet.

Eoin Colfer

Either that boy is the sanest creature on Earth, he thought, or he is so disturbed that our tests cannot even begin to scratch the surface.

Eoin Colfer

I want you to know, my dear friend, that without you, I would not be the person I am today." He leaned in close and whispered, "I was a broken boy, and you fixed me. Thank you.

Eoin Colfer

gold is power-artemis fowl I liked the artemis fowl series because its about a boy genius

Eoin Colfer

They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame.

Emma Forrest

He was a super shiny boy and I liked the shape of him. Under the blanket. In the shower. I liked his shadow on the street and his imprint on the sofa. I hated the smell of hair gel on his head, but I loved it on the pillow. I love the smell of losing someone.

Eminem

You can't control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do? Turn them away? Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff but just know Slim Shady is hip hop, I grew up on hip hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me.

Eminem

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

Elvis Costello

Then I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing, because the priest used to mumble everything except the church plate takings.

Jason Reitman

When I look at 'Napoleon Dynamite”s style I'm reminded of how I spoke when I was an eight-year-old boy. It was just like capturing the essence of, 'Duh!' It was just like the stuff that I would say when I was like eight, nine, ten years old.

Jason Momoa

I got called 'pretty boy' my whole life.

Hill Harper

All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

Hillary Clinton

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.

Herbert Read

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.

Evan Bayh

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.

If you're a little boy growing up in Texas, football is something you're going to do. Even if you don't have much talent, you play as long as you can.

Jeff Jarvis

If you want to boycott search and links, then you will die on paper.

Simone Elkeles

I get a lot of mail from boys in detention centers, including one from a center where they only had a few copies of my novel. They had a deal with each other that they'd read a couple of chapters and then slide it under the door to the next guy. I think that's very cool.

John Lasseter

I had been working nonstop through the '90s ... and my wife Nancy said, 'Be careful, your boys may go off to college and you will have missed it.

I guess you boys didn't learn anything from Waco or Ruby Ridge,

I guess I was feeling in a playful mood. The whole boys team wants me to try and dunk, but that's not a priority right now.

I guess that we just tried to teach the boys good values from the very start.