Famous Quotes & Sayings

Holly Black

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

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.

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.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I don’t duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange.

Lyndon B. Johnson

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

Lucas Grabeel

I still feel like a little boy on the set, watching the movie magic being made.

Louise Rennison

I can already feel myself getting fed up with boys and I haven't had anything to do with them yet" - Georgia Nicolson

Louis Auchincloss

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

Lori Foster

Manners, boy. I'll beat them into you if I have to.

Malcolm Forbes

The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.

Malcolm Campbell

Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.

Major Taylor

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

Gabrielle Union

I've dated a number of 'mama's boys.'

Gabrielle Zevin

I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.

Frank Lampard

To be honest, I was Mum's boy. Always was, always will be.

Maggie Smith

I think he [Leonardo DiCaprio] is a terrific actor. And I've - I've been rooting and voting for him since "Gilbert Grape." I thought he was so amazing in that one. He was a young man, really very young boy.

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.