Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marquis de Sade

And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?

Nicki Minaj

Just met a boy, just met a boy when he could become my little problem.

Nicki Minaj

I don't date boys. I don't like boys. It's true. I don't change.

Nicki Minaj

I think boys are yucky, and that's it. Nothing more to say.

Nick Moran

When you've been in the tabloids as a drunken 'It-boy', people automatically assume you're thick.

Marv Albert

In 1957, I was a 16-year-old office boy for the Dodgers.

Mark Twain

As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.

Mark Twain

There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.

Mark Twain

As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not aware that there was such a creature. He said he could not blame himself for not knowing about the dinosaur, because it was an American animal and America had not then been discovered.

Nicholas Sparks

Me. A bad boy. For eating boiled peanuts in the graveyard. Go figure.

John Green

Boys do not have the monopoly in Staring Business, after all.

John Green

I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'.

John Green

Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this." "Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish." "God, you're the best," I told him. "I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel," he answered.

John Green

So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided - maybe there's like a secret cabal of boys who meet in the locker room and decide who's ugly and who's hot, because as far as I can remember, there was no such thing as a hot fourth-grader. - Lindsey Lee Wells

John Green

Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

John Green

Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.

John Green

Hazel Grace,” he said. “Hi,” I said. “How are you?” “Grand,” he said. “I have been wanting to call you on a nearly minutely basis, but I have been waiting until I could form a coherent thought in re An Imperial Affliction.” (He said “in re.” He really did. That boy.)

Ozzy Osbourne

Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted in search of who I am, I tried so hard to kill the boy inside the man.

P. G. Wodehouse

Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.

Paul Engle

I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.

Marya Hornbacher

Anorexia and bulimia seem to be getting much more common in boys, men, and women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds; they are also becoming more common in racial groups previously thought to be impervious to the problem.

Paul Samuelson

But the trouble is that he [Alan Greenspan] had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult but you can't take the cult out of the boy.

Michel de Montaigne

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

Michael Reagan

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

Markus Zusak

You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.

Markus Zusak

... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.

Mark Twain

In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

Mark Twain

We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

Mark Twain

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Mario Batali

I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.

Marilyn Manson

I was a pizza delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wrecked the delivery car, but they wouldn't fire me because I was the only person they had working there.

Mae West

How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!

Michael Gurian

If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.