Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Ness

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

Patrick Rothfuss

Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.

Parker Stevenson

The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low

Paris Hilton

The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.

Lauren Myracle

Curse false-hand-holding boys!

Lauren Oliver

That is what Alex is now: a shadow-boy

Lauren Oliver

Maybe this is the secret to talking to boys--maybe you just have to be angry all the time.

Lilly Pulitzer

Wear pink and make the boys wink.

Paul Stanley

I was a chubby boy. My pants used to wear out in the middle, and it was because my legs used to rub together. I wasn't obese, just chunky.

Paul Johnson

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.

Patsy Cline

Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!

Tom Courtenay

The old actors in the old days, they used to go on tour, to get the play ready for the West End, and to learn their lines. The old timers used to say, "Be very careful, dear boy, what you get in to during the first weeks of a long tour."

Simon Van Booy

I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

Michael B. Jordan

Definitely, as I get older and my taste buds change, I want to do different things. I'm not ready for directing yet, you know, maybe when I get my big boy voice; I don't have that yet, but right now definitely producing for sure.

Mercedes Lackey

The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to watch, tasting the wooden planks, trying to steal the tools. It made for an interesting day for everyone, as the boys tried to keep the dragonets away from the carpenters, and the dragonets tried to get at the carpenters, and the carpenters worked probably a great deal faster than they ever had in their lives, sure that the dragonets would go from tasting the wood to tasting them.

Jodi Picoult

A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod...

John Green

Boys do not have the monopoly in Staring Business, after all.

John Green

I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'.

John Green

Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this." "Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish." "God, you're the best," I told him. "I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel," he answered.

John Green

So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided - maybe there's like a secret cabal of boys who meet in the locker room and decide who's ugly and who's hot, because as far as I can remember, there was no such thing as a hot fourth-grader. - Lindsey Lee Wells

John Green

Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

John Green

Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.

John Green

Hazel Grace,” he said. “Hi,” I said. “How are you?” “Grand,” he said. “I have been wanting to call you on a nearly minutely basis, but I have been waiting until I could form a coherent thought in re An Imperial Affliction.” (He said “in re.” He really did. That boy.)

Ozzy Osbourne

Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted in search of who I am, I tried so hard to kill the boy inside the man.

P. G. Wodehouse

Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.

I don't think we can be disappointed at all. The boys swam faster this year than they did last year.

I couldn't be more happy with my boys. We had two guys that I wasn't sure were going to make it through the tournament ? just some gutsy performances. The team reached my expectations and beyond. I'm really pleased with them. They did a heck of a job.

I never felt like a boy or a girl, never felt I should wear this or dress like that. I think that's where that confidence comes from because I never felt I had to play a part in my life. I just always come as Shamir.

Sarah Mlynowski

In 'Bras & Broomsticks,' Rachel Weinstein gets the shock of her life when she discovers that her mom and her younger sister, Miri, are both... witches! In 'Frogs & French Kisses,' Rachel and her witchy family are back - Miri is busy zapping up ways to save the world, while Mom has gone boy crazy and become a magicaholic.

In Boys to Men, you don't graduate. It's more of a crossover, or a phase. In life you go through phases, and one of them is growing to be a man.

Martin Jacques

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

Kim Thompson

I mean it's traditional, ... In English public schools boys are punished to keep them under control. It's only mock here. It's not real, but it looks real.

I know the boys have been focusing on that, especially the seniors. They wanted to go out with that title knowing that they were the first team to do it.