Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.

Marquis de Sade

And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?

Nicki Minaj

Just met a boy, just met a boy when he could become my little problem.

Nicki Minaj

I don't date boys. I don't like boys. It's true. I don't change.

Nicki Minaj

I think boys are yucky, and that's it. Nothing more to say.

Nick Moran

When you've been in the tabloids as a drunken 'It-boy', people automatically assume you're thick.

Marv Albert

In 1957, I was a 16-year-old office boy for the Dodgers.

Mark Twain

As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.

Mark Twain

There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.

Mark Twain

As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not aware that there was such a creature. He said he could not blame himself for not knowing about the dinosaur, because it was an American animal and America had not then been discovered.

Nicholas Sparks

Me. A bad boy. For eating boiled peanuts in the graveyard. Go figure.

Muhammad Ali

I've been on planes flying through thunder storms when the pilot says, 'ladies and gentlemen, we tried to fly around it but we can't so it's going to be rough'.And when a pilot says it's going to be bad, it's going to be rough. And you say to youself, boy, I could have got the train.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Friends are forever Boys are whatever.

Mark Wahlberg

Clooney is just a pretty boy, man, and that's it, OK? I carried him on my back long enough. I'm on my own.

Marian McPartland

Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.