Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Irving

I don't want you to describe to me—not ever—what you were doing to that poor boy to make him sound like that; but if you ever do it again, please cover his mouth with your hand.

John Irving

My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!

John Hiatt

I'd always wanted to make a record with Jim Dickinson, and I'd known about his boys for years, ... He reminded me that when they were 13 or 14 years old they had a punk rock band and I'd called him and wanted to make a record with them then.

The Clippers are ranked number one in Canada. And I think we could have very easily won that game. The boys were upbeat and positive and they picked up some valuable experience that will serve them well later.

Matt Paxton

(The first three boys) ran as a pack the whole way. They did what they were supposed to do and they pushed each other the whole time. They ran as hard as they needed to.

Sourav Ganguly

The captain has a big role. It is important to keep the boys' confidence high and to keep one's faith in them. I try to give my support to the youngsters because nobody comes in as a world beater. Okay, some rare cricketers score a century on debut, but that doesn't mean the rest are not good enough. We have to give them more opportunities, which was not there when I started out. Captaincy these days is more off the field than on the field.

The conditions were brutally hard. It was very, very difficult to play golf. I knew it would be difficult for the girls after their excellent opening round (288). The boys played pretty solid with the conditions. It's always nice to win. My main focus is that we get better every day and learn each time we tee it up.

Sean Connery

My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land.

Mick Jagger

Boys, as far as England was concerned, were always the hard core. And you just know the guys like it. They want to be you. Some might be attracted to you without knowing it.

Michelle Malkin

In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.

Michael Phelps

Once I'm already in my room, I still have to open a door to get into my bed. It's like a giant box. It's like the boy in a bubble.

John Galliano

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

John Dykstra

Boy, am I glad there wasn't a fourth episode of Lord of the Rings.

John McGraw

The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.

John Benjamin Hickey

Actually caffeine is too hard on my system. I'm a delicate boy from Plano, Texas.

Joel Madden

You can only start a boy band if you kill one of the other ones already out there.

Joe Lando

Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.

Joe Lando

I'm the poster boy for Propecia. It's amazing.

Joan Smalls

I would always hunch over, I was always taller than the boys. I had the extremely skinny legs... I would double up my socks, those ones from Footlocker, to make my legs look thicker.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

George Crabbe

Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy, And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.

Geezer Butler

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

Louie Anderson

I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated.

Louie Anderson

I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.

Lola Kirke

I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.

Lloyd Alexander

No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper!

LL Cool J

You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.

Manolo Blahnik

I watched L'eclisse [1962] with Alain Delon and Monica Vitti. Changed my world. What a glamorous and modern film. This is what a genius is - the thing of a genius. The dresses, the tiny heels, the Cardin look, the boys dressed up as Italian gigolos - it was divine, very modern. [ Michelangelo] Antonioni, I loved and I realized: how modern.

Manolo Blahnik

When I was a boy I remember the women, how they dressed, how they behaved, what was important to them at the time. Like Lee Marvin and Gloria Grahame in The Big Heat.

John Green

Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got eight-year-olds working ninety hours a week to deliver you that kind of top-quality witticism? There are boy bands with more original material.

John Goodman

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

John Flanagan

‎Halt looked up at the trees above him. "Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees. Naturally, they didn't answer.

Lilith Saintcrow

Next to her, even the prettiest djamphir boys looked gawky.