Best Boys Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.”

Bigs Lasts Used Literature Boys Century Great Love Dostoyevsky

“Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.”

People Boys Fields Football Serious Impression

“Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.”

Knows Should Long Eye Actors Lines Boys Know How Members Long Time Shots Cameras Handle Crew Electrician

Author:Jodie Foster

“Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.”

Want Mean Eye Young Causes Easy Boys Feet Stores Toys Bruises Tantrums

Author:Jodie Foster

“I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.”

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Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Of course you have memories, and these memories are convincing. But it's really at the moment when I write them down - when I write about my relationship with that Japanese boy in Ni d'Eve, Ni d'Adam - that they reach a degree of reality which is incandescent, that I've really conquered a story, understood it and feel that it is really part of me.”

Feels Writing Moments Stories Reality Courses Memories Boys Degrees Understood Adam Convincing

Author:Amelie Nothomb

“When my kids started preschool, the teachers had to take away all the fake bananas because all the boys would pick them up and pretend that they were guns. Boys find sticks to play swords and anything that looks like a gun to shoot. It's just inside of them. It's who they are.”

Looks Play Kids Boys Teacher Picks Gun Sticks Fake Bananas Preschool

Author:Dean Norris

“Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy.”

War Interesting Boys Connected Exploits

Book:James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography

Source: James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography

“The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.”

Years Bigs Boys Careers Lucky Ten Brilliant Fats Flukes

Author:Sandra Oh

“Like so many other kids with special needs, I have been bullied. Kids in elementary school made me eat sand, and those same boys would walk behind me, teasing me. Finally I had enough, and I told them to grow up.”

Needs Has Beens Made Enough Kids School Grows Walks Behinds Boys Growing Up Special Sand Tease Had Enough Bullied Elementary School Special Needs

Author:Lauren Potter

“Excitable boy, they all said, he killed and raped her and brought her home.”

Said Home Boys Insanity

Author:Warren Zevon

“Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.”

World Said War Brain Boys Insane Insanity War Of The Worlds Nurse Pads

Author:Bob Dylan

“Oh boy, when you're with me. Oh boy, I want the world to see that you were meant for me.”

World Want Boys Misinterpretation

Author:Buddy Holly

“Oh teacher, I need you like a little child, you got something in you to drive a school boy wild.”

Needs Children Littles School Education Boys Teacher Need You I Need You

Author:Elton John

“The boy's got problems, the boy's got stress, the boy's got a .38 hidden in his desk.”

Problem Education Boys Stress Desks

Author:Alice Cooper

“The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons. ... Republicans: The No. 1 reason the rest of the world thinks we're deaf, dumb, and dangerous.”

“When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.”

Has Beens Two Lines Boys Paper Logic Bases Distance Philosopher Invisible Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Visible Fountain Pencils Straight Lines Nothing New Ontology

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I could take this home, Marilyn. This is something teenage boys might find of interest.”

Home Might Politics Interest Boys Teenage

Author:Dan Quayle

“If I did not have my wife, I wouldn't be married, I wouldn't have the life that I have and I wouldn't have my wonderful baby boy who's not a baby anymore - he's going to be eight-years-old.”

Ifs Years Boys Wife Wonderful Baby Married Eight My Wife Being Married Baby Boy

Author:Brian Littrell

“My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.”

Hard Boys Growing Up Study Growing Hard Work Mom My Mom Strict Study And Work

Author:Coco Lee

“I'm a typical California boy.”

Boys California Typical

Author:Gary Lockwood

“I've always wanted two kids. I've always wanted a girl and a boy.”

Two Kids Wanted Girl Boys

Author:Ana Ortiz

“I will probably only give birth to two and then the rest will come to our family however it happens. I can only hold two, but you never know. I really want a boy because boys love their mamas!”

Knows Want Giving I Can Two Happens Boys Birth Our Family Mama

Author:Ana Ortiz

“The most important thing is to find the balance between city and nature. I have that 'hippie quality' - my husband is a super-hippie Los Angeles boy - so we'll have to make time to go to Puerto Rico, and upstate New York, and be sure we get to do outdoorsy stuff like that.”

Important Stuff Cities Quality Boys New York Balance Husband Important Things Los Angeles My Husband Hippie Making Time Puerto Rico Rico Upstate New York

Author:Ana Ortiz

“I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.”

School Father Boys Teach Teacher Son Physics Sydney Everyman

Author:Alex O'Loughlin

“I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear make-up sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter.”

People Knows Want Sometimes Matter Boys Want Me

Author:Andrej Pejic

“As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.”

Thinking Years Use Young Next Quality Boys Needed Discipline Chairs Dozen Neurotic Cheaper Use Of Time

Author:Ridley Pearson

“Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?”

Thinking Years Children Wanted America Moving Grows Sides Animal Boys Growing Up Nice Years Ago Twenties East Profession Jungle Columbus Wild Animal East Side

Author:Abraham Polonsky

“I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.”

Play Guy Boys Nice Cutting Strange Serious Type Band Clean Guitar Clubs Singers Punk Nails Tattoo Polish Nice Guy Bad Boy Nail Polish

Author:Megan Fox

“I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.”

Book Funny Guy Stuff Boys Growing Up Growing My Friends Actresses Comic Enjoyed Girlfriend Comic Book Nerd

Author:Megan Fox

“I have the libido of a 15-year-old boy. My sex drive is so high. I'd rather have sex with Brian all the time than leave the house. He doesn't mind.”

Years Mind House Sex Boys Brian Libido Sex Drive

Author:Megan Fox

“If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a boy from the hood making records for the people I make records for, that's reality.”

People Ifs I Can Shows Reality Boys Records Television Son My Son Hood Television Shows

Author:Master P

“To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.”

Stories White Boys Universal Catchers Shuffle

Author:Ryan Phillippe

“Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.”

Kind Government Jobs Boys Practice Democracy Connections Abuse Access Dictator Privileged Good Job Abuse Of Power Corridors Family Connections

Author:Jimmy Reid

“Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly.”

Thinking Play Home Boys Bad Boy

Author:Brad Renfro

“Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.”

Said Party Boys Standing Shame Albums Rap Solo Spotlight Billboards Great Party

Author:Dee Dee Ramone

“I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded.”

Ifs Want Ends Wanted Boys Involved Method Hearing Operations Posters Parkinson Parkinson's

Author:Michael J. Fox

“For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them because their home life is so tragic. Some of these kids have only one parent, and that one is addicted to drugs.”

Home Kids Life Is Girl Parent Boys Drug Safety Clubs Tragic Sanity Sanctuary Boy And Girl Oasis Home Life

Author:Judge Reinhold

“I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.”

Born Boys Raised County Born And Raised Like A Boy

Author:Sally Rand

“We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.”

Knows Littles Real Happens Young Mother Father Black Born Boys Issues Heard Serious Dad Young Women Serious Issues Black Boy

Author:Karrine Steffans

“I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.”

Men Want Play Girl Boys Roles Shots Deserve Producers Activist Men Women Proactive Boy Girl

Author:Octavia Spencer

“Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.”

Littles Different Play Natural Boys Failing Universal Distinction Rough Aggression Little Boys Natural Play

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“Toy companies aren't interested in ideology, they want to sell toys. If they would sell a toy that both boys and girls would buy, it doubles profits.”

Ifs Want Girl Company Boys Sells Profit Ideology Toys Boy And Girl

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.”

Mean Doe School Moral Boys Program Bullying Anti Bullying Moral Education

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.”

World Today Boys Teaching Get Away Today's World

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness.”

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Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.”

Men Happens Boys Struggle Awareness Raises Finished Being True Harsh Sweeping

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“I think I got turned onto The Beach Boys for the first time with the 'Endless Summer' album in 1974. The power of that music still, to this day, bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. You don't have to think about it; it's something that you feel.”

Thinking Feels Firsts Heart Stills Brain Boys Summer First Time Albums Endless Beach This Day Bypass Beach Boys

Author:John Stamos

“Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it's this rash leap. It's like spelunking. You kind of create the right path for yourself. But, boy, are there so many points at which you think, absolutely, I'm going down the wrong hole here. And I can't get back to the right hole. I'm not going to be able to get this section back to the right hole - so I'm just going to have to cut it.”

Thinking Writing Kind Littles I Can Ideas Happens Able Boys Novel Path Cutting Willing Holes Leap Get Back Broads Sections Blackness Right Path

Author:Chang-Rae Lee

“If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.”

Ifs Thinking Giving I Can Boys Corporations Humanistic Injection

Author:Ruth Simmons

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