Famous Quotes & Sayings

Veronica Roth

How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me-

Veronica Roth

And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.

Robert Frost

Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)

Rita Rudner

My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.

Thomas Otway

Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.

Thomas Hughes

I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one.

Timothy Dalton

If you're a boy, you always want to be in a western; and any actor I know would like to be in a horror.

Thomas S. Monson

When we qualify for the help of the Lord, we can build boys, we can mend men, we can accomplish miracles in His holy service. Our opportunities are without limit.

Robert B. Laughlin

I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.

Robert Baden-Powell

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

Rob Lowe

Nothing in life is unfair. It's just life. To the extent that I had any inner turmoil, I had only myself to blame. I also thought of my two boys and what kind of example I hoped to be. I would always want them to take charge of their own futures and not be paralyzed by the comfort and certainty of the status quo or be cowed by the judgment of those on the outside looking in.

Richard Linklater

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

Richard Linklater

I always think that I’m still this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I’ll really have to do it.

Robert Crumb

I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.

Roald Dahl

I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.

Tori Amos

In my new life, no room for a lost boy.

Vanessa Hudgens

I'm not very experienced with boys or the whole dating thingy.

Robin Williams

We were totally opposite - me coming from the West Coast and a junior college, and him [ Christopher Reeve] from the hard-core Ivy League. He used to be the studly studly of all studlies, and I was the little fool ferret boy.

Robin Williams

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.

Robert Vaughn

I've been obsessed with clothes since I was a little boy.

Robert Cormier

Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.

Robert Cormier

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

Rob Thurman

Look at the ex-demon with his big boy pants on now.

Rob Corddry

I've been an Apple guy since the mid 80's and that's when I was like, "Boy, you guys really got me here. I know exactly what you're doing, right down to your price points."

Russell Brand

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

Rose Byrne

I liked the Beastie Boys and A Tribe Called Quest and Cypress Hill.

Ronnie Corbett

I wasn't a very athletic boy. I was once lapped in the long jump

Ron Chernow

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

Tricia Helfer

I lump Canada and the States together. I like good old North American boys.

Travis Barker

If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.

Rick Riordan

Now, leave." All three boys slumped forward. Percy fell face-first into his pizza. "Percy!" Annabeth grabbed him.

Rick Riordan

Boy," Annabeth interrupted, "I'm sure you both would've been wonderful at killing each other. But right now you need some rest.

Rick Riordan

Frank couldn't breathe underwater. But where was he? Percy turned in a full circle. Nothing. Then he glanced up. Hovering above him was a giant goldfish. Frank had turned -clothes, backpack, and all- into a koi the size of a teen-aged boy. "dude." Percy sent his thoughts through the water, the way he spoke to other sea creatures. "A goldfish?" Frank's voice came back to him: "I freaked. We were talking about goldfish, so it was on my mind. Sue me.