Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Michael Gurian

The boy and the man must be raised to see the possibility of self worth, then meet a few others who provide the vision of a road toward it, then spend a lifetime pursing that worth through action and relationship. One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

Michael Gurian

If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today, we’d say they had ADD or a conduct disorder. They [boys] are who they are, and we need to love them for who they are. Let’s not try to rewire them.

Frank Miller

You don't... get it, boy... This isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon.

George C. Scott

I'm really a pussycat and this [bad-boy] image has been totally overblown for 30 years. Sure, I used to rumble a little but I don't do that stuff anymore. I'm an old man now. When you reach your 50s, you realise that if you don't mellow, you won't last.

Christopher Golden

...she yanked open her shoulder bag and pulled out a stake. Boy Scouts and vampire slayers should always be prepared.

Christina Hoff Sommers

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

Christina Hoff Sommers

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

Christina Aguilera

There’s nothing more dangerous than a boy with charm.

Christian Kane

I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage.

Chris Murray

Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?

Chris Murray

Ready? No one is ever ready, my boy. But some do what they plan to do and some never will. The difference between the two is that the first group understand that they need to start somewhere, so they do so. Straight away

Francesca Lia Block

Beauty loved him more than anything, her Beast boy, but, secretly, sometimes, she wished he would have remained a Beast.

Fran Lebowitz

When I was young, boys didn't type.

Norah Vincent

There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.

Norm MacDonald

Man, them engagement rings, boy, they cost a lot. I was looking at 'em. Cost like a thousand bucks, two thousand bucks, y'know. Three thousand bucks. Something like that- four thousand bucks. Big number divisible by a thousand, anyways.

Nobuo Uematsu

Game Boy is something that I would like to make something for.

Noel Gallagher

They should be shot. (on the Backstreet Boys)

Noel Gallagher

Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.

Rick Riordan

Stop smiling!” she ordered. “I can see you, Carter. Oh…and, uh, hullo, Walt.” The pot monster made squeaky grinding noises as it stood up straight. One clunky arm rose and tried to fix Sadie’s nonexistent hair. Leave it to Sadie to be self-conscious around boys, even when she’s made out of pots and duct tape.

Rick Riordan

This is Leo. I'm the... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or..." "Repair boy." "Very funny, Piper.