Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Brodsky

It's rather an exhilarating feeling. It's 6 or 7 when you get up and go out into the fields wearing your Wellingtons or high boots. You know that at this very hour half the nation does the same thing, which gives you, with the benefit of hindsight, a satisfaction in doing those things, too, a knowledge, a sense of the nation. I was a city boy until then.

Joseph Brodsky

I had this fantasy of becoming a neurosurgeon. You know, the normal Jewish boy fantasy, but I wanted to be a neurosurgeon for some reason. So I started in this unpleasant way. I was an assistant to the coroner, opening up corpses, taking the innards out, opening skulls, taking the brains out.

Miriam Toews

Even a Menno sheltered from the world knows not to stick her tongue into the mouth of a boy who owns an Air Supply record. You might stick your tongue into the mouth of a boy who owned some Emerson, Lake and Palmer, but you would not date him on a regular basis, or openly.

Pierre Omidyar

When you look at the accomplishments of accomplished people and you say, 'Boy, that must have been really hard,'...that was probably hard. And conversely, when you look at something that looks easy, that was probably hard. And so you're never going to know which is which until you actually go out and do it.

Nelly

I can get inspired just off the energy of Soulja Boy, just his energy, you have to take something from an artist. Everyone may not look at an artist the same way, but it's something that artist is doing that's creating his success.

Neil Tennant

It's fundamental that what we do only exists in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world.

Nick Cannon

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

Jeremy Piven

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

Grant Morrison

There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

Frank Zappa

Am I a boy or a lady, I don't know which?

Frank Zappa

Disco boy, no one understands, but thank the lord you still got hands.

Fred Melamed

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

Harmon Killebrew

We're not raising grass. We're raising boys.

Molly Ivins

Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman

Nathan Fillion

Oh, boy. I'm still in touch with about 90 percent of my exes. They would describe me as being unlucky in love.

Kelly Wearstler

Every year, my boys and I create new cool gift wrap paper. We hand paint the design and come up with interesting ways to wrap each gift.

Keith Richards

It made me sick - my name's Keith Richards. It hardly makes it against Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters, does it? On my first guitar I had Boy Blue written - just pathetic. But that was as good as I got at the time.

Krista Allen

Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men.

Kim Harrison

Her elf is going to do just that,” he said, the red glow of the ever-after sun turning his hair auburn, almost as red as mine. “I did not work this hard at getting her to accept who she is to let you take your spoiled brat of a little-boy temper tantrum out on her. She stays on my side of the lines.

Kevin Pietersen

The boys are so well-rounded, they're so self-disciplined, there is so much camaraderie

Keri Hilson

I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.

Kristen Stewart

I looked like a boy for a long time. Now I feel like a woman.

Oprah Winfrey

There were lots of little boys having their bar mitzvahs all over the world, and they sent me tapes of some of them that they interviewed, probably six or seven little boys, and there was something about Mendel. I just loved his little face. I loved the energy of Mendel.

Olivier Theyskens

When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.

Oliver Hudson

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

Kiefer Sutherland

Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong.

Kid Rock

There's always a Justin Bieber. Ever since I've been around, there's always been one of him. You know, you can trace it back from how old you are and the boy bands that came along then and the teen sensations and whatnot. And, you know, good for them. There's a few of them that make it out and a few of them that don't.

Kevin Mitnick

I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.

Kenny Rogers

Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

Margaret Cho

My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don't have sex - ever. Now that the milk is free, we've both become lactose intolerant.

Mark Twain

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

Mark Twain

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Jessica Hart

I don't like to try very hard. Most of the time it's just jeans, a T-shirt and Converse trainers. Casual, comfortable and boyish is how I'd describe my look. The way people wear clothes makes them stylish, rather than the clothes themselves.