Famous Quotes & Sayings

For the boys, it's that brotherly feeling, ... They talk about male issues that boys can care for each other. Same with girls. We do a lot of teaming.

Ishmael Beah

I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.

Isla Fisher

I was raised as a tomboy with boys, and I never really feel like myself when I am really dolled up at premieres and showbiz events.

Ike Turner

They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.

Huston Smith

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

Gloria Steinem

When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.

Gloria Steinem

I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said 'maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as Nancy Drew.' It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

Gerard Depardieu

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

I really never thought about the way I looked until boys came into the picture.

J. K. Rowling

To Harry Potter — the boy who lived!

J. K. Rowling

Sword? Haven't got a sword. That boy has, though. He'll lend you one.

J. K. Rowling

He chose the boy he thought most likely to be a danger to him," said Dumbledore. And notice this, Harry. He chose, not the pureblood (which, according to his creed, is the only kind of wizard worth being or knowing), but the half-blood, like himself. He saw himself in you before he had ever seen you, and in marking you with that scar, he did not kill you, as he intended, but gave you powers, and a future, which have fitted you to escape him not once, but four times so far — something that neither your parents, nor Neville’s parents, ever achieved.

J. K. Rowling

Draco Malfoy is a bad boy!" squeaked Dobby angrily.

J. K. Rowling

You'd better hurry up, they'll be waiting for 'the Chosen Captain' — 'The Boy Who Scored'— whatever they call you these days.

J. K. Rowling

And that boys," yelled Mr. Weasley over the tumult of the crowd below,"is why you should never go for looks alone!

J. K. Rowling

Hang on. This Lord Voldything's back you say?... and now he's sending dismembers after you?... I see. Well that settles it, YOU CAN GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE BOY!

J. K. Rowling

Another ten points from Gryffindor,” said Snape. “I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room.

J. K. Rowling

Parry Otter, the Chosen Boy Who — well — something of that sort..

J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.

J. K. Rowling

Harry!" said Fred, elbowing Percy out of the way and bowing deeply. "Simply splendid to see you, old boy-" "Marvelous," said George, pushing Fred aside and seizing Harry's hand in turn. "Absolutely spiffing." Percy scowled. "That's enough, now," said Mrs. Weasley. "Mum!" said Fred as though he'd only just spotted her and seizing her hand too. "How really corking to see you-

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips

Guillermo del Toro

I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window.

Grace Lin

She's my friend, the boy said simply. That's who she is and that's enough for me. As Minli looked at the buffalo boy, aglow with happiness against his poor surroundings, she saw it was enough for him. More than enough, as the smile that kept curling up on his face told her.

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.

Paul Auster

[Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He's a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer.

Paul Auster

A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

Paul Auster

As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.

Pamela Adlon

There was a point a few years ago where I realized I started out playing boys on camera and stage, and then I translated that to playing boys in animated shows. I was like, "Whoa, this is intense."

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

This is an embarrassment of riches, and boy, am I happy to be embarrassed.

Julia Roberts

My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'