Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morgan Freeman

I don't do cold. My reaction to cold is drastic. I'm a southern boy.

Mordecai Richler

A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.

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.

Kenneth Cranham

The first thing I wanted to do, as a boy, was to be a skier, because I had seen film footage of somebody skiing.

The most pleasure any manager can get is seeing everyday boys joining the Club as youngsters and growing into men and giving themselves a better social standing than they could ever have dreamed of previously.

Jimmy Carter

After all these years, I still feel like a boy when I'm on a stream

The last two meets, I've seen a lot of improvement in the boys' team, which is good to see. We hope to peak at the right time and this is the time we want to start to see that.

The little boy was outside the window and the grandma was halfway in, halfway out of the window. We got the little boy out of the way and then we helped the grandma out of the window and then we got some information from her that there were still two people inside.

The little boy died while Phil was holding his hand.

James Toney

If I'm the poster boy for steroids, steroids is going out of business.

James Polshek

I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.

James Patterson

Boy, you just can't kill people like you used to,

James Patterson

We’ll be back!” he snarled. It was really Ari’s voice. Boy, you just can’t kill people like you used to,” said Fang

James Patterson

I love the idea of expanding the universe of games to some extent. At one point, they were kind of limited to boys, fanboys and whatever. I like the idea of liberation for games.

James Nesbitt

I feel old and vulnerable. I now realise that I knew nothing and know nothing, but back when my career was beginning, I thought I was a man when, in fact, I was a dewy-eyed boy who'd not seen an avocado or eaten a tomato.

James McAvoy

I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.

Novak Djokovic

When my boy arrived in this life, on this planet, it was completely a new dimension of experience for me and my wife. I'm still riding on the wave of that experience.

Norton Juster

For instance," said the boy again, "if Christmas trees were people and people were Christmas trees, we'd all be chopped down, put up in the living room, and covered in tinsel, while the trees opened our presents." "What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. "Nothing at all," he answered, "but it's an interesting possibility, don't you think?

Norton Juster

Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.

Emile Hirsch

I don't really like the slogan 'It boy.'

Emile Zola

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

Eric Schmidt

A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.'

Epicurus

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Emily Giffin

After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy?

Emily Dickinson

I had a terror-since September -I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground-because I am afraid.

Elliott Yamin

I'm still Elliott Yamin. I'm still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va.

Ella Maillart

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.