Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaliyah

It's Friday and I'm ready to swing. Pick up my girls and hit the party scene.

We're hoping to get at least 10 girls or more qualify for regions. It could be a little more or little less, but I feel good we can get those kids and some of our relay teams to the regions.

We seem to have the most depth. But girls golf is a sport where you can see a lot of unexpected improvement and a lot of improvement in scores in August.

We are so young, I am just trying to get these girls used to playing big games.

Ann Wilson

We are so grateful to all of you here today. Katherine would have loved to see all of you girls out here playing soccer like this. Thank you so much for all you have done this week.

Trying to watch 30 girls is a full-time job. With that many new kids, trying to sort out where they all go has been a little challenging.

Bruce Oldfield

We're into Nicole Kidmans, rather than the young girl who just got married in a tracksuit.

Meryl Streep

Well, it has to do with very deep things, because it might be that imagining yourself as a girl is a diminishment. But it is something that when I made "The Devil Wears Prada" it was the first time in my life, 30 years of making movies, that a man came up and said I know how you felt. I know how you felt. I have a job like that. People understand.

Meryl Streep

This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of history, it's really about boys, most of it. But I can feel more like Peter Pan than Tinker Bell, or like Wendy. I wanted to be Tom Sawyer, not Becky. And we're so used to that act of empathizing with the protagonist of a male-driven plot. I mean, that's what we've done all our lives. You read history, you read great literature, Shakespeare, it's all fellas, you know?

Meryl Streep

When I was in - at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was - that class still existed. I think it's pretty much gone, but there was a way of talking that the private school girls had that was different than the way I talked from New Jersey.

Meryl Streep

I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there was Huck Finn and "Spin And Marty." The boys characters were interesting and you lived through them when you're watching it.

Meryl Streep

It's harder for men to imagine themselves as the girl in the movies than it is for me to imagine myself as Daniel Craig bringing down the building.

Meryl Streep

We're viewed as equals - but we're still not there yet. [...] The challenge for our girls, I think, is dealing with that resistance. How can we lift and defuse it, how do we make it so our equality is not so threatening? Our girls are going to have to contend with that. I contend with it right now in every realm I operate in.

Meryl Streep

For young women, I would say don't worry so much about your weight. Girls spend way too much time thinking about that, and there are better things. For young men, and women, too, what makes you different or weird-that's your strength. Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up. I used to hate my nose. Now I don't. It's OK.

Bjork

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.

Bjork

I'm a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay

Bjork

When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd - the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.

Bjork

I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You're not just imagining things. It's tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.

Georgia Salpa

When I do club appearances, it's girls who come up and get their photos taken with me, not just guys.

Bindi Irwin

I try so hard to be true to myself. I hope I can help other girls realize that they don't have to do things just because everyone else is doing them.

Malala Yousafzai

We must tell girls their voices are important.

David Mitchell

Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.

Francesco Carrozzini

I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.

Charles de Gaulle

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.

Gloria Steinem

Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys.

Bianca Lawson

I was in line at a store and there was a little girl, she was standing in line next to me and some other girls had come up to me and recognized me from 'Pretty Little Liars.' When they walked away, this girl was staring at me, and her eyes got so big, and she started crying. It was, like, the cutest thing.

Claude Rains

Often we'd secretly like to do the very things we discipline ourselves against. Isn't that true? Well, here in the movies I can be as mean, as wicked as I want to - and all without hurting anybody. Look at that lovely girl I've just shot!

Colin Firth

It's hard to get yourself into a position where someone will trust you to direct a film anyway, whatever sex you are. Certainly in England, the film set is a very male preserve. There's a lot of very rough looking men pushing equipment around that don't want the gaffer to be a girl.

Colin Firth

I have almost no memory of them [St. Trinian's films]. I don't think I've seen them since I was quite young. I was a bit frightened of the girls. I fancied them. Even though I was young, I found them attractive and rather frightening. I've always been attracted to frightening girls! I'm married to one!

Cleo Moore

None of the European girls, including Anita Ekberg, has anything not found on American girls as well.

Cleveland Amory

Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl.

Daphne Gottlieb

I'm not a girl anymore, I'm a woman and my heart beats like prizefighter's fists, and I have not stopped yet, I will not stop.

Dante Alighieri

How come I never meet any nice girls?