Famous Quotes & Sayings

Major Taylor

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

Gabrielle Union

I've dated a number of 'mama's boys.'

Gabrielle Zevin

I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.

Frank Lampard

To be honest, I was Mum's boy. Always was, always will be.

Maggie Smith

I think he [Leonardo DiCaprio] is a terrific actor. And I've - I've been rooting and voting for him since "Gilbert Grape." I thought he was so amazing in that one. He was a young man, really very young boy.

Maggie Stiefvater

Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boys because they were trouble. And two, stay away from Aglionby boys, because they were bastards.

Maggie Stiefvater

The Boy should watch where he’s going,” she said. “Rachel should not manifest in doorways,” I replied.

Maggie Stiefvater

I try to think of something catchy to say, but there's nothing but irritation that something that was funny yo an eleven-year-old boy is still funny to a seventeen-year-old one.

Maggie Stiefvater

Boys,' she says, 'just aren't very good at being afraid.

Maggie Stiefvater

I was suddenly overwhelmed by what an incredible person this boy was, standing in front of me, and by the fact that he was mine and I was his.

Maggie Stiefvater

In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.

Maggie Stiefvater

Boys like him didn't die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries.

The most pleasure any manager can get is seeing everyday boys joining the Club as youngsters and growing into men and giving themselves a better social standing than they could ever have dreamed of previously.

Jimmy Carter

After all these years, I still feel like a boy when I'm on a stream

The last two meets, I've seen a lot of improvement in the boys' team, which is good to see. We hope to peak at the right time and this is the time we want to start to see that.

James Toney

If I'm the poster boy for steroids, steroids is going out of business.

James Polshek

I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.

James Patterson

Boy, you just can't kill people like you used to,

James Patterson

We’ll be back!” he snarled. It was really Ari’s voice. Boy, you just can’t kill people like you used to,” said Fang

James Patterson

I love the idea of expanding the universe of games to some extent. At one point, they were kind of limited to boys, fanboys and whatever. I like the idea of liberation for games.

James Nesbitt

I feel old and vulnerable. I now realise that I knew nothing and know nothing, but back when my career was beginning, I thought I was a man when, in fact, I was a dewy-eyed boy who'd not seen an avocado or eaten a tomato.

James McAvoy

I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.

Emily Dickinson

I had a terror-since September -I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground-because I am afraid.

Elliott Yamin

I'm still Elliott Yamin. I'm still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va.

Ella Maillart

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.

All of the boys had lifetime-best swims and all three relays were season-bests.

All the boys, they ran just ran tremendously today. Of the 10 boys that ran today, only three of them have high school experience of running a competitive 5K race. Of the inexperience we have, I thought they had a great night.

All the big boys don't want it. That'll be the end of this place.

Edward Albee

If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about the comedy boys, I'm talking about the more serious writers - it seems inevitable that almost every one has been encouraged until the critics feel that they have built them up beyond the point where they can control them; then it's time to knock them down again.

Michelle Mone

The market was striving for newness and someone to bring a new concept and invention. We shook the industry up from the big boys who had had the market to themselves. We got lots of PR, invented products and took a market share.

Holly Johnson

Let's face it I am not Joan Collins or Boy George.

Holly Black

He looks like the good boy he's never been.

Herodotus

The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.