Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kid Rock

There's always a Justin Bieber. Ever since I've been around, there's always been one of him. You know, you can trace it back from how old you are and the boy bands that came along then and the teen sensations and whatnot. And, you know, good for them. There's a few of them that make it out and a few of them that don't.

Kevin Mitnick

I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.

Kenny Rogers

Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

Lauren Oliver

That is what Alex is now: a shadow-boy

Lauren Oliver

Maybe this is the secret to talking to boys--maybe you just have to be angry all the time.

Lilly Pulitzer

Wear pink and make the boys wink.

Paul Stanley

I was a chubby boy. My pants used to wear out in the middle, and it was because my legs used to rub together. I wasn't obese, just chunky.

Paul Johnson

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.

Patsy Cline

Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!

Louis Kahn

A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.

Michael Cunningham

It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.

Mark Twain

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

Mark Twain

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.

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.