Top Boys Quotes Collection - Page 22

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Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friends are forever Boys are whatever.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Collection: Boys
Image of Lester Bangs
A young woman is dead. I don’t care. You probably don’t care. The police don’t care. The papers don’t care. The punks for the most part don’t care. The only people that care are (I suppose) her parents and (I’m almost certain) the boy accused of murdering her.
- Lester Bangs
Collection: Boys
Image of Jerzy Kosinski
Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird
- Jerzy Kosinski
Collection: Boys
Image of Fran Lebowitz
When I was young, boys didn't type.
- Fran Lebowitz
Collection: Boys
Image of James A. Baldwin
You're getting to be a big boy,' I said desperately, 'it's time you started thinking about your future.' 'I'm thinking about my future,' said Sonny, grimly. 'I think about it all the time.
- James A. Baldwin
Collection: Boys
Image of James A. Baldwin
My friend was about to introduce me when she looked at me and smiled and said, "Whose little boy are you?"
- James A. Baldwin
Collection: Boys
Image of Sophie Kinsella
When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card. (Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)
- Sophie Kinsella
Collection: Boys
Image of M. Russell Ballard
Just as He had done with David, Samuel, and Joseph of the Old Testament, God took an innocent, unlearned boy, one still unsullied by the world and pliable to His divine will, and molded and shaped him into His chosen prophet.
- M. Russell Ballard
Collection: Boys
Image of Stephen King
You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?
- Stephen King
Collection: Boys
Image of Rudyard Kipling
After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.
- Rudyard Kipling
Collection: Boys
Image of D. H. Lawrence
Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. Don't get connected up. If you get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! "Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that
- D. H. Lawrence
Collection: Boys
Image of Harper Lee
That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?
- Harper Lee
Collection: Boys
Image of Henry Adams
Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.
- Henry Adams
Collection: Boys
Image of Judith Martin
. . . women were brought up to have only one set of manners. A woman was either a lady or she wasn't, and we all know what the latter meant. Not even momentary lapses were allowed; there is no female equivalent of the boys-will-be-boys concept.
- Judith Martin
Collection: Boys
Image of Phyllis McGinley
Men can't be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen . . . They are like boys with new pocket knives who will not stop whittling.
- Phyllis McGinley
Collection: Boys
Image of 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.
- James McAvoy
Collection: Boys
Image of Daphne du Maurier
Watch that boy. He's going to startle somebody someday.
- Daphne du Maurier
Collection: Boys
Image of Marilyn Manson
I was a pizza-delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wrecked the delivery car, but they wouldn't fire me. I was the only person they had working there.
- Marilyn Manson
Collection: Boys
Image of Cormac McCarthy
Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
- Cormac McCarthy
Collection: Boys
Image of Diogenes Laertius
Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.
- Diogenes Laertius
Collection: Boys
Image of James M. Barrie
Wendy: Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient! Peter: How am I deficient? Wendy: You're just a boy.
- James M. Barrie
Collection: Boys
Image of Wynton Marsalis
One thing about excellence, it&Mac226s an exclusive club. And it&Mac226s only for those who really want to pay dues to the s--. My daddy told me when I was a boy: The only way you can be different from other people is to do some s-- they don't want to do.
- Wynton Marsalis
Collection: Boys
Image of Federico Garcia Lorca
At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five in the afternoon. A boy brought the white sheet at five in the afternoon. A frail of lime ready prepared at five in the afternoon. The rest was death, and death alone
- Federico Garcia Lorca
Collection: Boys
Image of George R. R. Martin
Irri and Jhiqui argued about Rakharo. “You are too skinny for him,” Jhiqui was saying. “You are almost a boy. Rakharo does not bed with boys. This is known.” Irri bristled back. “It is known that you are almost a cow. Rakharo does not bed with cows.
- George R. R. Martin
Collection: Boys
Image of Paul McCartney
If anyone had told me in the '60s that 20 years later we'd still be talking about whether pot was worse than this or that, I'd have said, Oh, come off it, boys.
- Paul McCartney
Collection: Boys
Image of John Warren Kindt
Casinos don't bring business except for the gambling boys
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Boys
Image of James M. Barrie
Boy, why are you crying?
- James M. Barrie
Collection: Boys
Image of James M. Barrie
Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.
- James M. Barrie
Collection: Boys
Image of Marilyn Manson
The boy that you loved is the man that you fear.
- Marilyn Manson
Collection: Boys
Image of Cormac McCarthy
They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol. It's us, Papa, the boy whispered. It's us.
- Cormac McCarthy
Collection: Boys
Image of Dave Barry
Lobsters displays all three of the classic biological characteristics of an insect, namely: 1. It has way more legs than necessary. 2. There is no way you would ever pet it. 3. It does not respond to simple commands such as "Here, boy!"
- Dave Barry
Collection: Boys
Image of Larry McMurtry
-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.
- Larry McMurtry
Collection: Boys
Image of James M. Barrie
But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.
- James M. Barrie
Collection: Boys
Image of Cormac McCarthy
Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.
- Cormac McCarthy
Collection: Boys
Image of George R. R. Martin
It's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him.
- George R. R. Martin
Collection: Boys
Image of Matthew McConaughey
If I'm doing something I do like to take it to the limit. I've got a high ceiling. A wide threshold for seeing what those boundaries are for myself. I'm very resilient inside. I find things that I like and do and boy, I do like to stick to them. I'm not necessarily a guy who gets addicted to more of certain things, but if I find something I like to do, I like to stick to it.
- Matthew McConaughey
Collection: Boys
Image of Marie Lu
The boy who walks in the light.
- Marie Lu
Collection: Boys
Image of Marie Lu
I feel so out of place here. No matter how much money the Republic throws at me, I will forever be the boy from the streets.
- Marie Lu
Collection: Boys
Image of H. L. Mencken
Some boys go to college and eventually succeed in getting out. Others go to college and never succeed in getting out. The latter are called professors.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Boys
Image of Norm MacDonald
Man, them engagement rings, boy, they cost a lot. I was looking at 'em. Cost like a thousand bucks, two thousand bucks, y'know. Three thousand bucks. Something like that- four thousand bucks. Big number divisible by a thousand, anyways.
- Norm MacDonald
Collection: Boys
Image of Cormac McCarthy
He was just hungry, Papa. He's going to die. He's going to die anyway. He's so scared, Papa. The man squatted and looked at him. I'm scared, he said. Do you understand? I'm scared. The boy didn't answer. He just sat there with his head down, sobbing. You're not the one who has to worry about everything. The boy said something but he couldn't understand him. What? He said. He looked up, his wet and grimy face. Yes I am, he said. I am the one.
- Cormac McCarthy
Collection: Boys
Image of George R. R. Martin
Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.
- George R. R. Martin
Collection: Boys
Image of Cormac McCarthy
The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
- Cormac McCarthy
Collection: Boys
Image of Rob Lowe
Nothing in life is unfair. It's just life. To the extent that I had any inner turmoil, I had only myself to blame. I also thought of my two boys and what kind of example I hoped to be. I would always want them to take charge of their own futures and not be paralyzed by the comfort and certainty of the status quo or be cowed by the judgment of those on the outside looking in.
- Rob Lowe
Collection: Boys
Image of Joel Madden
You can only start a boy band if you kill one of the other ones already out there.
- Joel Madden
Collection: Boys
Image of George Lucas
Luke: Boy, it's lucky you have these compartments. Han: I use them for smuggling. I never thought I'd be smuggling myself in them. This is ridiculous.
- George Lucas
Collection: Boys
Image of Martin Luther
Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Boys
Image of Herman Melville
Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember.
- Herman Melville
Collection: Boys
Image of Peyton Manning
I like to be able to do things on my own. I'm a big boy. I can drive myself to an appearance or get on a plane. I like a little bit of independence...
- Peyton Manning
Collection: Boys