Famous Quotes & Sayings

Avril Lavigne

In America, I get a lot of younger kids, but there's teens and adults too, ... In Europe, for some reason, I see a lot more males in the audience. In Japan, I don't even notice any kids, partially because they're a lot more strict about fan behavior over there.

Bella Thorne

I'd like to help other kids with dyslexia, because I'm dyslexic. It was very hard, and I know that what I went through, other kids are going through.

Barry Zito

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.

Barry Zito

I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.

Barry White

In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn't give kids a chance.

Balthazar Getty

I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.

Asa Butterfield

I managed to stay grounded and when I wasn't working, I was hanging out with my friends so I was still able to be a kid and have that part of my life. I didn't let acting take over completely.

Boris Kodjoe

You can be very independent, but admit to wanting somebody close to you and that's what me and my wife have. We don't need each other but we want to be with each other and I think it's important to educate the kids with that.

Bob Dylan

It's like going out to the desert and screaming and then having little kids throw their sandbox at you. I'm only 24.

Bob Dylan

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid

Billy Crystal

Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

Billy Crystal

You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.

Billy Corgan

The weird nihilism that permeates Mellon Collie is extremely relevant to what's going on right now. So many kids are intelligent and articulate, but they don't know what to do with themselves.

Billy Corgan

Actually, I was having dinner with Michael [Stipe, of R.E.M.] when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.

Boy George

As a kid, I would've loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It's great that you can communicate with people and it's instant.

Boy George

The New Romantic scene was so tiny. Although it got lots of mileage in the media, it was a really small club with only a core group of people. As it got more popular, kids started to come from the suburbs all dressed up, but it -really wasn't as big as it looked.

Bong Joon-ho

When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.

Bode Miller

When I was little, I spent a lot of time by myself. When other kids were in school, I was skiing and thinking about things. I was alone on the mountain.

Bode Miller

I can take $15,000 a year and raise kids on that. Later, they'll figure out I've got millions, but hopefully they'll have the values to say, 'So what?

Bode Miller

One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.

Bobby Fischer

Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn't seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn't like that, so I decided I'd have to show them they weren't any better than me, you know? They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, 'He beat us at chess, but he's still just an uncouth kid.' So I decided to dress up.

Bruce Feiler

Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives.

Bridgette Wilson

I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first.

Brian P. Cleary

Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.

Brian P. Cleary

When a kid says "smell my hand," it almost never smells like cinnamon.

Brian Posehn

I was such a weird kid. The really hardcore stuff like Venom - I was totally aware of them, and I listened to some of it - but they actually frightened me.

Brendan Morrison

Wrapping Christmas presents is tough. Even peeling a Mandarin orange is tough. I have to get my kids to help me.

Brendon Urie

We're just like you. Were not these older idols, you know, were just kids like you guys.

If you can't say it to me in front of my kids, don't say it.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.

Do you light up when your kids are coming in the room or do you become the instant critic?

Bre Pettis

I like to make things. Its been part of my identity since I was a kid.

Branford Marsalis

The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.