Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Hobsbawm

N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and peaceful coexistence, who incidentally emptied Stalin's concentration camps, dominated the international scene in the next few years. He was also perhaps the only peasant boy ever to rule a major state

Eric Idle

I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.

Empedocles

For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.

Ben Alexander

The idea is that the boys learn about cars, how to build them and how to compete in a fun way.

You can spend half an hour listening to a guy who needs to vent and needs your spiritual ear, then the next cell down there's another boy who needs you just as desperately.

Jackson Katz

Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society,

Henry Rollins

I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to tour with the Beastie Boys and watched almost every set they played on all those dates. Why not? You do your set and then you get to see the Beasties play? Best deal in town.

Henry Rollins

I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts.

Henry B. Eyring

Throughout my life, the scriptures have been a way for God to reveal things to me that are personal and helpful. When I was a little boy, I was given a small Bible. If I remember correctly, it was only the New Testament.

Henry Adams

Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.

Henry Adams

A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

Norah Vincent

There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.

Norm MacDonald

Man, them engagement rings, boy, they cost a lot. I was looking at 'em. Cost like a thousand bucks, two thousand bucks, y'know. Three thousand bucks. Something like that- four thousand bucks. Big number divisible by a thousand, anyways.

Nobuo Uematsu

Game Boy is something that I would like to make something for.

Noel Gallagher

They should be shot. (on the Backstreet Boys)

Noel Gallagher

Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.

Neil Gaiman

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

Neil Gaiman

Does it make you feel big to make a little boy cry?

Neil Gaiman

The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys.

Neil Gaiman

I'm a stranger," pointed out Bod. "You're not," she said, definitely. "You're a little boy." And then she said, "And you're my friend. So you can't be a stranger.

Neil Gaiman

If a Devil is one who dares, when others hold back, then I am happy to play the Devil in this Mystery, boy.

John Webster

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

John Steinbeck

Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.

John Steinbeck

But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been

John Steinbeck

But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or with secrecy. And once a boy has suffered rejection, he will find rejection even where it does not exist-or, worse, will draw it forth from people simply by expecting it.

John Steinbeck

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man:

John Steinbeck

Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans

Liam Payne

The only thing I can say, once again, is thank you, to all of you, to everyone who's supported us so far. From the people who first picked up the phone and voted on x factor, to the people who went into the shop and bought our albums and everybody in between. Thank you so much for a fantastic opportunity and helping me and the boys to where we are today.

Libba Bray

Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?

Libba Bray

Just once I’d like to meet a fella who isn’t a phony. Somebody who doesn’t wanna buy me a fur so he can show me off to his boys.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted that he was Georges Clemenceau.

George Gershwin

The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.

Jon M. Chu

When I was in Boy Scouts, back in the day, we'd tell stories around the campfire. That's why I love movies. It's literally you and your friends, telling stories around a campfire, whatever they may be.