“It's rather an exhilarating feeling. It's 6 or 7 when you get up and go out into the fields wearing your Wellingtons or high boots. You know that at this very hour half the nation does the same thing, which gives you, with the benefit of hindsight, a satisfaction in doing those things, too, a knowledge, a sense of the nation. I was a city boy until then.” KnowsGivingDoeFeelingsNationsHoursCitiesHalfBoysFieldsBenefitsSatisfactionGet UpBootsHindsightExhilaratingWellingtonExhilarating Feeling Author:Joseph Brodsky
“Miley [Cyrus] is so sweet. In this generation - and I know because I have two teenage boys - they don't really have to care about things. It's kind of a desensitized generation. I'm so impressed that she's really vegan and outspoken about animal welfare.” KnowsKindTwoCareAnimalBoysGenerationsSweetWelfareVeganImpressedTeenageAnimal WelfareThis GenerationOutspokenMiley Author:Pamela Anderson
“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?” KnowsFeelsMeanLittlesI CanDoneWantedUsedGirlLiteratureBoysOur LivesEmpathyMalesDrivenPlotPeterBellsTomsProtagonistsFellasWendyGreat LiteratureSawyerBecky Author:Meryl Streep
“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.” KnowsMenTwoBigsThreeNumbersBoysFourCostThousandRingsEmsEngagementBucks Author:Norm MacDonald
“I used to breakdance, be a b-boy. I love hip-hop from back in the graffiti days, growing up listening to Michael Jackson. Loved it from birth. I know it all, from Afrika Bambaataa, the roots and the beginning. I came up in a good era.” KnowsUsedBoysGrowing UpGrowingListeningBirthRootsHip HopHipsErasHopsGraffitiKnow It All Author:DJ Khaled
“I started DJing soundclashes. I used to go to Jamaica a lot. I was like a hip-hop sound boy, where I took the dancehall culture and mixed it up with the hip-hop as well. I kept going, going, and I got real hot in the streets of Miami - you know, doing pirate radio - then ended up doing 99 Jamz, the big station out there.” KnowsWellsRealBigsUsedCultureSoundBoysStreetsHotHip HopRadioHipsHopsStationsPirateMiamiJamaicaDancehallPirate Radio Author:DJ Khaled
“I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.” IfsKnowsUsedChurchWonderBoysWindowExcuseIf I CouldGoing OutBathroomToilets Author:Dolly Parton
“'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.” KnowsWantLongSongFallBoysExpectationsDirectPaidSatireConsumerismFall Out Boy Author:Patrick Stump
“To me, beauty and sadness are very closely linked. Truly beautiful things make me sad because I know they are going to fade. When I see a beautiful 20-year-old boy or girl-and they are breathtaking-I am filled with a kind of sadness. But maybe they are beautiful because we know they are not permanent and they are in a kind of transition.” KnowsYearsKindBeautifulGirlBoysSadnessFilledPermanentTransitionFadesBeautiful ThingsLinkedBreathtaking Author:Tom Ford
“There was a part, you know, obviously there was a part of the whole I military experience that you know like hooks right into the whole boyhood experience that that you know most American boys have growing up, you know, which is proving your manhood by proving how hard you are, by proving that you can take it.” KnowsHardWholeBoysGrowing UpGrowingMilitaryProveManhoodHookBoyhoodMilitary Experience Author:Peter P. Mahoney
“I was watching cartoons on television and a commercial came on for one of the Batman series where I played a butler. And then my grandson looked up at me and he said, "Do you know Batman?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Really," I said, "Yeah." I said I know him very well. And he told all the boys at school, he said, "My grandpa knows Batman. Does your grandpa know Batman? OK, no. Mine does.” KnowsWellsDoeSaidSchoolBoysTelevisionMinesYeahSeriesDo You KnowCartoonGrandpaButlersGrandson Author:Michael Caine
“I only write about stuff I know. I don't have a lot of experience with boys and stuff so I write a lot of songs about interesting and strange subjects that people wouldn't write songs about.” PeopleKnowsWritingSongStuffInterestingBoysSubjectsStrange Author:Brie Larson
“Of all of them, I just -- maybe because I know them, but I think 'N Sync has -- can maybe transcend that whole boy band thing, you know, because they got a good attitude and a good spirit, and they're talented guys.” ThinkingKnowsWholeSpiritGuyAttitudeBoysBandSyncGood AttitudeBoy Bands Author:Joey McIntyre
“Some boy nuh know dis, dem only come around like tourist. On the beach with a few club sodas. Bedtime stories, and pose like dem name Chuck Norris and don't know the real hardcore.” KnowsRealStoriesNamesBoysClubsBeachTouristsBedtimeChuckHardcoreSodaBedtime Stories Author:Damian Marley
“I had the idea of a boy who was a wizard and didn't yet know what he was. I never sat down and wondered, "What shall I write about next?". It just came, fully formed.” KnowsWritingIdeasNextBoysDown AndSatWizards Author:J. K. Rowling
“I actually saw a kid and went home and drew him. I don't even know who he was. I was buying a TV set in Circuit City. I was looking at this kid and he was kind of standing there, staring off into space. Kids are pretty chubby nowadays because of all the fast-food places. I grew up eating fast food but now everything is double beef and double cheese. So there are a lot of these chubby boys with long, baggy shorts.” KnowsKindLongHomeKidsSpaceCitiesBoysSawsTvsGrewEatingGrew UpStandingStaringBuyingCheeseBeefCircuitsFast FoodShortsStanding ThereEating Fast Food Author:Mike Judge
“Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.” KnowsReasonFeltBoysKnow HowAliveGuiltyBuddy Author:Waylon Jennings
“On a personal level, I would like my loved ones to know that I have always done the best that I could to demonstrate my love, and worked hard to provide them with a sense of security. On a more global level, I would like to see that my efforts, whether with the Beach Boys or as an individual, achieve as much benefit to humanity as possible during my lifetime. Peace and love!” KnowsHardDoneHumanityIndividualLevelsEffortBoysAchieveSecurityBenefitsAnd LoveLifetimeBeachLoved OnesPeace And LoveBeach Boys Author:Mike Love
“I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.” PeopleKnowsInspirationalBoysDrinkingPostersSobriety Author:Billy Joel
“There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.” KnowsDoeIdeasSelfCertainNextActorsNamesCausesBoysMissingMarkBeing TrueMatesFrankUp And DownBad IdeasRubiesHilarity Author:Alan Rickman
“I have three boys. And I wanted to make sure it connected with them and then those guys who grew up like me, in environments like me.And then I knew something about science that your New York Times reader would be interested in. So I was thinking about it in multiple ways: I'll connect with the people who grew up like me first, and then the New York Times reader will be interested in the science because it's so good and they want to be "in the know."” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantFirstsWould BeWantedGuyThreeBoysEnvironmentNew YorkGrewReaderGrew UpConnectedLike MeMultipleNew York Times Author:Carl Hart
“I have some idea that if I pick on [boy band] One Direction, I'll get a ton of hate mail, because I know that when you're 15, you love a band like you will kill people. But I don't quite realize that that's true about people - adults - who read The Hunger Games.” PeopleIfsKnowsIdeasHateGamesRealizingBoysLike YouBandPicksAdultsHungerMailOne DirectionBoy BandsHate Mail Author:Joel Stein
“I was the last one of nine kids - eight girls and me last - and my sisters were going out. They were teenagers. And as they were getting ready, I would sit on the bathtub and watch them put on makeup and transform themselves - you know, putting on clothes and giggling about the boys they were going to meet and everything. So for me, that was an amazing thing - the fact of transforming themselves.” KnowsFactsKidsLastsGirlBoysWatchesReadyClothesEightNineTeenagerMakeupMy SisterGoing OutTransformingAmazing ThingsBathtubs Author:Riccardo Tisci
“We don't have anyone with bad haircuts, which is a good thing. Louis Delmas has some pretty nice dreads. He's a Florida boy, so they know how to do it. He gets the title.” KnowsBoysKnow HowNiceGood ThingsTitlesDreadFloridaHaircutsBad Haircuts Author:Nate Burleson
“I would say I was a philosophical boy. Thoughts about 'identical stones' are the earliest philosophical thoughts I remember. But when I was a teenager I also thought about the more typical philosophical problems teenagers think about: the existence of god, the objectivity of morality, whether one can know that the external world exists.” ThinkingKnowsWorldProblemRememberExistenceBoysMoralityStonesPhilosophicalTeenagerTypicalIdenticalObjectivityExistence Of God Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
“I take my role as an ambassador for the sport, and as a role model for boys, girls, mommies, daddies - whoever it is - very, very seriously. I know the impact my role models have had in my life, and I'm in a really beautiful position to be able to be that for others.” KnowsAbleBeautifulGirlSportsBoysRolesPositionModelsImpactRole ModelsDaddyAmbassadorsReally BeautifulBoy Girl Author:Kerri Walsh
“We are hopefully seeking some kind of distribution - but that's the ultimate goal of any independent film-maker. We are sold-out, from what I was told yesterday. We're going to try to put together another screening because I know there's a lot Jersey Boys fans that are coming. I don't know when, why or how, but we definitely want the opportunity for everyone to see this.” KnowsWantTryingKindTogetherFilmOpportunityGoalBoysFansUltimateIndependentSeekingYesterdayHopefullyMakersDistributionJerseyUltimate GoalIndependent FilmScreeningSold Out Author:J. Robert Spencer
“My grandmother told me: "We all dated lots of different boys because no one was having sex or kissing. It was just going out for sodas and getting to know people. It didn't seem like there was a threat." I think now we have more ideas of people having premarital and unprotected sex.” PeopleThinkingKnowsIdeasDifferentSeemsSexBoysKissingThreatGrandmotherGoing OutMy GrandmotherHaving SexSoda Author:Zoe Kazan
“You know, boy versus girl. But she's a tough warrior, so I almost treated it like unisex. But it makes a difference how tall the actors are, because I needed to know that if Olivia Wilde sits in a car that the director, Joe Kosinski can still get the angle he wants, as opposed to maybe in another vehicle than Jeff Bridges has to sit in. So that was fascinating. Because in a real car you change everything and adjust it. But here you have one shot.” IfsKnowsWantStillsRealGirlActorsDifferencesBoysCarNeededDirectorsShotsToughTreatedWarriorBridgesMaking A DifferenceFascinatingTallVehicleAngleVersusWildeOliviaUnisex Author:Daniel Simon
“I want to make movies just like "King Kong." You know, dinosaurs, big gorillas - it's everything that a nine year-old boy would fall in love with.” KnowsWantYearsBigsFallBoysKingsFalling In LoveNineDinosaursNine YearsGorillasKing Kong Author:Peter Jackson
“To me, when there's movies that are about, you know, guys named Hell Boy, and you know, the issue that they have with our movie that she doesn't get an abortion, I mean, I think there's greater suspensions of disbelief.” ThinkingKnowsMeanGuyBoysHellIssuesGreaterAbortionDisbeliefSuspensionSuspension Of Disbelief Author:Seth Rogen
“Oh gosh, well, you know, growing up in the '70s being a young boy there, you know, there were still exploitation movies, where, you know, were, you know, still opened up every week and, you know, played - sometimes they would play it at the local, you know, mall theater.” KnowsWellsStillsSometimesPlayYoungBoysGrowing UpGrowingWeekTheaterLocalsExploitationMalls Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I have a 10 year old boy and a 6 year old boy and the stuff that they watch, it's always... I mean, it could be because we're a funny family, but they love the humor and combining humor with space action, I mean, you know, there's a winner right there.” KnowsYearsMeanActionStuffSpaceBoysWatchesWinnerCombiningFunny Family Author:Rhys Darby
“I don't know how in the twenty-first century we can possibly justify not showing girls things that they can aspire to, and at the same time, how can we possibly be showing boys this narrow vision of what women are and what they can be.” KnowsFirstsGirlVisionBoysKnow HowCenturyTwentiesJustifyAspireGirl Thing Author:Geena Davis
“Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it's increasingly girls, not boys, who don't know how to read.” KnowsFirstsShowsSchoolFallGirlBehindsBoysKnow HowStatisticsHousework Author:Melinda Gates
“We also ought to recognize that unpaid labor falls predominantly to women. The other thing I would do in countries like the U.S. is to show more men, even in TV ads, doing household work. Only two percent of ads show men doing chores, and yet we know they actually do several hours of it in real life. Those images affect young boys and girls.” KnowsMenTwoRealCountryShowsYoungFallGirlHoursBoysTvsOughtPercentLaborReal LifeAdsHouseholdShow MeChoresBoy And Girl Author:Melinda Gates
“Thank God that Bumble-Ardy's parents are dead so we don't have to wonder what they did to him. We only know that they were famous, and famous people have unhappy children for the most part. They don't have the time to take care of them. So he's a troubled pig-boy, a kid you've got to watch.” PeopleKnowsChildrenCareKidsParentWonderBoysWatchesTake CareUnhappyThank GodPigs Author:Maurice Sendak
“I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.” ThinkingKnowsBookBoysFemaleProtagonistsFemale Protagonists Author:Jacqueline Woodson
“You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad and it's all right there in front of you.” KnowsWritingBookSongGirlBoysFrontsMomDadComicComic BookYour MomMom And Dad Author:Scott McClanahan
“You are educated equally to boys. You're expected to go into equal employment with boys. In a marriage, you are legally equal. So, you know, you cannot deny we live in a feminist world.” KnowsWorldBoysEqualFeministDenyExpectedEducatedEmployment Author:Caitlin Moran
“What kind of person would run for president of the United States in today's political climate? It would have to be somebody who's never really been drunk in public, who's never had an affair, who never shoplifted when they were a little boy, who never had any sort of counseling at all. I just don't know how you go through your life meeting people, experiencing everything you can, trying to absorb, and not make some of those mistakes. It's impossible.” PeopleKnowsTryingKindLittlesPersonsStatesRunningTodayPoliticalPresidentUnitedMistakeBoysUnited StatesKnow HowImpossibleMeetingsClimateAffairDrunkLittle BoysCounselingExperiencing Everything Author:Rob Lowe
“Kids are growing up and they don't know the difference between fact and fiction. The line is getting blurry. I can handle it, you know; I'm a big boy. And the entertainment industry has always been crazy. But the problem is, it spills over into some very serious issues, in politics and real newsworthy stuff.” KnowsI CanRealFactsProblemBigsKidsStuffDifferencesLinesFictionBoysGrowing UpIssuesGrowingCrazySeriousIndustryEntertainmentHandleSpillsEntertainment IndustryBlurrySerious IssuesNewsworthyFact And Fiction Author:Rob Lowe
“That's what I love about Michael Douglas' performance in Wonder Boys, because I feel like he surprises audiences that know him from very different roles in his other work.” KnowsFeelsDifferentWonderBoysRolesAudiencePerformancesSurprise Author:Curtis Hanson
“Here [in Wonder Boys] I had this group of characters where you didn't know which were the important ones or what direction they were heading.” KnowsImportantCharacterWonderBoysGroupsHeadings Author:Curtis Hanson
“None of my 22 grandchildren have genetics played. Three of my four boys were golf pros, but I think they all sort of said, "You know, I'm not going to push" with their children. I was the same with my kids. I said, "You know, if they want to play golf, that's fine, but I'm not going to push them."” IfsThinkingKnowsWantChildrenSaidPlayKidsThreeBoysFourFineGolfGrandchildrenGenetics Author:Jack Nicklaus
“Aunt May's values and Spiderman's traumas are kind of what's defined him as a young boy and now that he's becoming a young man, she's there to provide that safe place where he can still be a kid if he needs to be, or know that he has a home base as he's going through all these physical changes. So as long as those essentials are there, we can work on finding the character together.” IfsKnowsMenNeedsKindMayLongStillsCharacterHomeKidsTogetherYoungValuesBoysBecomingSafeEssentialsFindingsTraumaDefinedYoung ManAuntSafe PlacesHome Base Author:Marisa Tomei
“The fact that there's a more open discussion about everything from feminism to racism ... I look at my two boys ... this is their future I'm talking about. When I'll be long gone, it'll be them and their kids. I know that sometimes the darkest times are followed by the lightest. Sometimes bad things have to happen for good things to happen. At the very worst, we're having very open discussions, discussions about things we didn't even know f-king existed. I talk to my friends about it and they are absolutely shocked. They didn't even know.” KnowsLooksLongTwoSometimesFactsHappensKidsTalkingBoysGoneFeminismWorstKingsRacismMy FriendsGood ThingsDiscussionBad ThingsShockedDarkest Times Author:Michael Buble
“In fact, I told our dear friends, the Burrell boys, five boys lived next door to us. "Why, we don't see your dad anymore?" "Oh, yeah. Yeah. He" - I lied. I said, "He comes home at night when you guys are in bed. He gets us up and we play." I said it so much that I started to believe it myself, you know?” KnowsBelieveSaidPlayFactsHomeNightGuyNextBoysFiveDoorsDadBedYeahDearComing HomeLiedDear FriendYour Dad Author:Bryan Cranston