Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jojo Moyes

I just... want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.

Jon Bon Jovi

It's not hard to get a girl if I wanted one. But it doesn't mean you want it, and even if you did, you're certainly not going to rub it in anybody's face.

Jon Bon Jovi

My mom was the poster girl for the Marines. So she was in the poster saying, "I want you." My parents were both Marines.

Johnny Weir

I am an American man, and in America, we still think of figure skaters as little girls in pretty, sparkly dresses - I worked very hard to change the perception and image of figure skating, and I think I've done a great job on my end, but in figure skating, taste needs to evolve.

Johnny Carson

Happiness is seeing the muscular lifeguard all the girls were admiring leave the beach hand in hand with another muscular lifeguard.

Johnny Cash

Could it be the girls and boys are trying to be heard above your noise?

Johnny Cash

Take one fresh and tender kiss Add one stolen night of bliss One girl, one boy, some grief, some joy Memories are made of this.

Luanne Rice

You fall in love with the girl next door but married her sister.

Louis Sachar

It's funny how you can go from hating a girl to maybe liking her, maybe liking her a lot, just because she shows a little interest in you.

John Ciardi

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

John Cleese

Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!

John Cleese

In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.

John Buchan

Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.

John Barnes

There's a rule or something that if a girl can crack you up, you have to do what she says.

John Barrymore

My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

Lupe Fiasco

Whats the biggest commercial for aggression, sexuality and materialism? What gets pumped into these kids heads? Taking someone elses girl, which is so laissez-faire in hip-hop, will get you killed in the streets, but it doesnt seem to be an issue when you hear it on the radio.

Louise Fletcher

I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought.

Louise Brooks

When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits and half naked beaded gowns and piles and piles of furs.

Louise Brown

The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.

Louise Brown

Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.

Louise Brown

It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.

John Boyne

Bruno opened his eyes in wonder at the things he saw. In his imagination he had tough that all the huts were full of happy families, some of whom sat outside on rocking chairs in the evening and told stories about how things were so much better when they were children and they'd had nowadays. He thought that all the boys and girls who lived there would be in different groups, playing tennis or football, skipping and drawing out squares for hopscotch on the ground. As it turned out, all the things he thought might be there-wern't.'' -The boy in the striped Pajamas

Tyra Banks

Us brown-skinned girls get ashy if we don't moisturize.

Ruhollah Khomeini

A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate; sodomising the child is OK. If the man penetrates and damages the child then he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl, however, does not count as one of his four permanent wives. The man will not be eligible to marry the girl's sister.

Orson Scott Card

She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell. Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it. And it's delicious.

Robert Kiyosaki

By 2003, every fool was getting into real estate. The checkout girl at my local supermarket handed me her newly printed real estate agent business card.

Pierce Brown

I think girls have a harder time than guys do if you're switching schools. Guys don't get picked on as long as you're OK in sports.

Paul Butcher

I don't go to the mall a lot 'cause girls scream and run at me, and I get shy.

Alice Walker

I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over.

Their leadership is with heart. The other girls can see that. They're good examples.

These are high school girls and I said it's not over until the last out.

These girls worked hard to get here. I can't say enough about how they set out for this goal and accomplished it.

These girls play good 'D' for the most part. It's a team effort.