Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

The desire for excitement is very deep-seated in human beings, eI was a solitary, shy, priggish youth. I had no experience of the social pleasures of boyhood and did not miss them. But I liked mathematics, and mathematics was suspect because it has n

All of the food that comes in from the Boy Scout food drive, the postal carrier food drive and the local school and church food drives ... goes right back out into the community. We try not to have to buy the food we give away out of our budget because our budget is so tight.

All of the boys had lifetime-best swims and all three relays were season-bests.

All the boys, they ran just ran tremendously today. Of the 10 boys that ran today, only three of them have high school experience of running a competitive 5K race. Of the inexperience we have, I thought they had a great night.

All the big boys don't want it. That'll be the end of this place.

And a nice little boy had a nice cake of soap, / Worthy of washing the hands of the Pope.

Holly Black

He looks like the good boy he's never been.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The sea hath its pearls The heaven hath its stars But my heart, my heart Has its love.

Herodotus

The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.

Helen Reddy

Stopping at her house is a neighbor boy with evil on his mind, cause he's been peeking in Angie's room at night through her window blind.

Henry Ward Beecher

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

Kurt Fuller

I would go to these Supernatural conventions because, well, one, it's like going to your own version of Disneyland. You're adored for an hour or whatever, and then you walk out and you're nobody again, but, boy, when you're there, it must be what it's like to be Brad Pitt all day, you know? You're the best thing going. And it pays pretty well, too! But I was concurrently loved and hated by everybody, because the suspension of disbelief is, uh, pretty high among Supernatural fans.

Khaled Hosseini

And one more thing...You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab.

Khaled Hosseini

Never mind that to me, the face of Afghanistan is that of a boy with a thin-boned frame, a shaved head, and low-set ears, a boy with a Chinese doll face perpetually lit by a harelipped smile. Never mind any of those things. Because history isn't easy to overcome. Neither is religion. In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi'a, and nothing was ever going to change that. Nothing.

Khaled Hosseini

Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.

Kesha

I'm over dudes trying to look like they're in boy bands.

Narada Michael Walden

I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.

Norman Wisdom

All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.

Norman Mailer

Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.

Norman MacCaig

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

Orson Welles

A movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had.

Orson Welles

A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.

Orson Welles

A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.

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.

Marie Lu

I feel so out of place here. No matter how much money the Republic throws at me, I will forever be the boy from the streets.

Marie Lu

The boy who walks in the light