Famous Quotes & Sayings

Markus Zusak

You can kill a man with those words. No gun. No bullets. Just words and a girl.

Markus Zusak

She was a girl with a mountain to climb.

Markus Zusak

The scrawled words of practice stood magnificently on the wall by the stairs, jagged and childlike and sweet. They looked on as both the hidden Jew and the girl slept, hand to shoulder. They breathed. German and Jewish lungs.

Markus Zusak

It’s a small story really, about, among other things: * A girl * Some words * An accordionist * Some fanatical Germans * A Jewish fist fighter * And quite a lot of thievery

Markus Zusak

I’m Angelina,” she says. “Are you here to save us?” I can see a tiny spark of hope awaken in her eyes. “You’re right, Angelina - I’m here to save you.” “Can you? Really?” “I’ll try,” I say and the girl smiles.

Markus Zusak

After perhaps thirty meters, just as a soldier turned around, the girl was felled. Hands were clamped upon her from behind and the boy next door brought her down. He forced her knees to the road and suffered the penalty. He collected her punches as if they were presents. Her bony hands and elbows were accepted with nothing but a few short moans. He accumulated the loud, clumsy specks of saliva and tears as if they were lovely to his face, and more important, he was able to hold her down.

Markus Zusak

I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her.

Markus Zusak

She was a Jew feeder without a question in the world on that man's first night in Molching. She was an arm reacher, deep into a mattress, to deliver a sketchbook to a teenage girl. (84.25)

Mark Twain

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Mark Twain

What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

Mark Twain

She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.

Mark Twain

Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it. Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

Mark Twain

Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

Marianne Williamson

The Queen is coming to reclaim her girls.

Marilyn Monroe

A smart girl leaves before she is left.

Marilyn Monroe

But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

Marilyn Monroe

A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.

Marilyn Monroe

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

Marilyn Monroe

A girl does not need anyone who does not need her.

Marilyn Monroe

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

Marilyn Monroe

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

Marilyn Monroe

A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb.

Marian Wright Edelman

If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.

Maria Kirilenko

All teenage girls like to look good and tennis players are no different.

Maria Menounos

I am honored to be a Bond girl and be a part of the Bond legacy, To star in a video game with Connery, the original Bond, is incredible.

Maria Bello

You can be feminine and strong, at the same time. You can be a bad-ass and, at the same time, have a vulnerableness when you're hysterically crying, like most of us girls.

Maria Bello

I'm a girl who loves fashion. I'm such a Cinderella - I love to put on a great dress and heels. It's fun!

Maria Bartiromo

The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about.

Martin Henderson

In LA it's kind of common to date some random girl or guy, whereas back home it's more like you'll have your group of friends and you'll all kind of hang out, and then eventually there'll be a girl in the mix, and if you get on, then the next minute you'll be together. This whole dating process doesn't happen.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

Mark Wahlberg

I'm the father of two boys and two girls, so I'm more an emotional wreck than a mushball.

Mark Wahlberg

And I tell you, having girls has made me a much better man. I have friends who are fathers, but they only have boys, and they have the same attitude toward women they always had, you know? And I don't play that... My girls, you mess with them? I will bury you underground.