Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

Mark Twain

We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

Mark Twain

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Mario Batali

I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.

Marilyn Manson

I was a pizza delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wrecked the delivery car, but they wouldn't fire me because I was the only person they had working there.

Mae West

How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!

Michael Gurian

If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.

Michael Gurian

The boy and the man must be raised to see the possibility of self worth, then meet a few others who provide the vision of a road toward it, then spend a lifetime pursing that worth through action and relationship. One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

Michael Gurian

If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today, we’d say they had ADD or a conduct disorder. They [boys] are who they are, and we need to love them for who they are. Let’s not try to rewire them.

Michael Caine

I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.

Mason Cooley

A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.

Michael Moore

I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested.

Michael Gambon

Yeah, I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff.

Michael Grant

Sam’s probably out there somewhere being his usual heroic self,” Caine said. “I can’t let that boy save the world all alone. I’d never live it down.

Michael Grant

And now, at last, gaiaphage and Nemesis stood facing each other. “Why didn’t you just . . . fade?” Gaia demanded plaintively. “You hit me,” Nemesis said. It was a little boy’s voice coming from Caine’s mouth. “And that’s not okay.

Michael J. Fox

I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded.

Mark Ruffalo

I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.

Ozzy Osbourne

Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted in search of who I am, I tried so hard to kill the boy inside the man.

P. G. Wodehouse

Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.

Paul Engle

I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.

Marya Hornbacher

Anorexia and bulimia seem to be getting much more common in boys, men, and women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds; they are also becoming more common in racial groups previously thought to be impervious to the problem.

Paul Samuelson

But the trouble is that he [Alan Greenspan] had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult but you can't take the cult out of the boy.

Paul Auster

[Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He's a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer.

Paul Auster

A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

Paul Auster

As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.

Pamela Adlon

There was a point a few years ago where I realized I started out playing boys on camera and stage, and then I translated that to playing boys in animated shows. I was like, "Whoa, this is intense."

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

This is an embarrassment of riches, and boy, am I happy to be embarrassed.

Julia Roberts

My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'

William Barnes

I really feel once they try it, they'll do it a lot more. We've done both, and we supported the local leagues. It is a good program, and it's good for local boys to play together. But I also support tournament ball. It's a good experience, and it's the next level.

I played with the big boys and this is the result - sometimes you go into a business and the upside potential is so great that you close your eyes and look the other way. I looked the other way and the other way has come back to smack me.

John Gokongwei

I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons ended when my father died because our family had no more money. I used to have a mestiza teacher. She'd come once a week to teach me piano lessons, and she'd bribe me each time with an apple; otherwise, I wouldn't play.

Jane Goldman

I play 'World of Warcraft,' which means I end up hanging out with teenage boys a lot.