Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Riordan

This is Leo. I'm the... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or..." "Repair boy." "Very funny, Piper.

Rick Riordan

Now, I figured that the built-up gas in most boys' locker rooms was enough to cause an explosion, so I wasn't surprised when the flaming dodgeball ignited a huge WHOOOOOOOM!

Tamora Pierce

You'll see. I'm as good as any boy. I'm better. - Kel

Tamora Pierce

Nestor beckoned to me and I dismounted with care.I handed the reins to the boy with thanks. I do not wish to see that hard-charging bag of bones again, unless it is in my soup.

Sylvia Plath

A living doll, everywhere you look. It can sew, it can cook, It can talk, talk, talk. . . . My boy, it's your last resort. Will you marry it, marry it, marry it.

Swami Vivekananda

There is only one sin and it is: weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is that person who never weakens, faces everything, and determines die game.

Swami Vivekananda

If the poor boy cannot come to education, education must go to him

Ronald Biggs

It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect.

Rupert Graves

I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.

Susie Orbach

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.

Suzanne Collins

It’s the first time I’ve ever kissed a boy, which should make some sort of impression I guess, but all I can register is how unnaturally hot his lips are from the fever.

Suzanne Collins

I have been keeping track of the boy with the bread.

Suzanne Collins

And random bits of happiness, like Finnick and Annie's newborn boy.

Suzanne Collins

To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.

Taylor Swift

To all the boys who inspired this album: You should've known. ;)

Stephen King

You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

My little boy Sonny makes me laugh all the time. He has good comedic timing.

Taylor Swift

I'm not even going to be able to remember the boy who broke up with me over the phone in 25 seconds when I was 18.

Stacy Keibler

Well, my work is done here. Thanks, boys!

Stephenie Meyer

I honestly have no idea how to live without you.

Stephenie Meyer

Edward's only human Bella. He's going to react like any other boy.

Stephenie Meyer

The boy in the pearl gray suit could have been Jane's twin. His hair was darker, and his lips were not as full, but he was just as lovely.

Stephen Chbosky

He was the boy that made mix tapes with themes and hand-colored covers until the day he hit my sister and stopped crying.

Soulja Boy

Soulja Boy is on his dance, down south, young, 18-year-old, comedic swag. It's really just each person's personality; if every rapper had the same swag, it would be kind of boring.

Sophie Kinsella

When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card. (Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)

Tim Burton

My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call me the hideous penguin boy.

Thomas Jefferson

Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well require a man to wear the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain forever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

Thomas Jefferson

It look like the lord just work for wite folks cause ever sens i wasn nothin but a litle boy i been on my on haulin water to the fiel on that ol water cart wit all them dime bukets an that dipper just hittin an old dorthy just trottin and trottin an me up their hittin her wit that rope...

Thomas Bulfinch

The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.

Vin Diesel

I'm a boy who appreciates a good body, regardless of the make.

Viggo Mortensen

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

Victoria Abril

My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.

Veronica Roth

Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.