“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?” ThinkingYearsChildrenWantedAmericaMovingGrowsSidesAnimalBoysGrowing UpNiceYears AgoTwentiesEastProfessionJungleColumbusWild AnimalEast Side Author:Abraham Polonsky
“Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of success, as America's growing celebrity culture turned a simple Irish American gladiator into a national, in fact international hero. A very human story with profound parallels for our sports-obsessed culture today!” HumansFactsStoriesTodayAmericaCultureStrongSportsSidesSimpleBoysRichGrowingPerspectiveHeroPeriodsProfoundPaintInternationalDetailsObsessedBiographiesParallelsAnecdotesCelebrity Culture Author:Nigel Hamilton
“Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise.” MenShouldStillsDesireFatherSidesBoysYouthFoolishNoiseDreadSoberBaseness Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson
“a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the boy had known enough to steal the whole railroad he would be heralded as a Napoleon of finance.” IfsYearsEnoughWholeWould BeSidesKnownBoysTenTrackStealingFinanceJailCoalArrestedRailroadsLadIndianapolisRailroad Tracks Author:Mother Jones
“Three things Marco taught me today race through my mind: boys will lie to your face just to have sex with you, don't trust any boy who says I love you, and never date a boy who lives on the south side of Fairfield.” MindTodayFacesLyingThreeSexSidesRaceBoysLove YouTaughtSouthYour FaceThree ThingsDon't TrustSay I Love YouMarcos Book:Chain Reaction Source: Chain Reaction
“Early in my career I was divided because I had the real self underneath: the lawbreaker, the anarchist, the person who swims against the tide, the outsider, the loner, all of that guy. He was my private self, and I had this other side that wanted to be liked in order to do all those things I dreamed of as a little boy. I didn't realize that those things didn't go together until later. And I'm quite sure that my use of acid and peyote helped me accept what was really going on inside of me instead of what I had imposed on myself.” LittlesPersonsRealSelfUseWantedTogetherGuyOrderSidesRealizingAcceptingBoysCareersSwimDividedTidesOutsidersAcidAnarchistThat GuyLittle BoysLonerReal SelfPeyote Author:George Carlin
“Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. That was the stuff that really got me into music. Song writing wise, bands like Alkaline Trio were very important to me for beginning to write songs.” WritingImportantSongStuffSidesBoysWiseRocksGrewBandGrew UpPunkPunk RockRock BandsMisfitsTrios Author:Andy Biersack
“Every woman is multifaceted. Every woman has a switch, whether she's going to be maternal, whether she's going to be a man-eater, whether she has to kick ass, whether she has to be one of the boys, whether she has to show the guys that she's just as smart or smarter, she's just as talented or creative. Women suppress a lot of their sides.” MenShowsGuySidesBoysCreativeSmartAssKicksSmarterBe A ManKick Ass Author:Nicki Minaj
“The range of individuality in children is infinite, but every class of children seemed to have the same groups. And there was a chief girl and a chief boy - a girl that all the other girls of that age looked up to and imitated and a boy that all the boys looked up to and imitated. I realized that if I got them on my side and exclusively taught them for a couple of weeks, maybe for the first full term, then I wouldn't have any trouble. Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.” IfsThinkingFirstsChildrenAgeGirlSidesTermMistakeClassBoysTeacherTroubleGroupsWeekTaughtCoupleSittingInfiniteIndividualityI RealizedChiefsRangeBossSitting DownOther Girl Author:Philip Pullman
“When winter fails to provide an adequate snow base, my boys bring their sleds in the house and ride them down the stairs. Just the other day, my wife found them with a rope out their second-story bedroom window, preparing to rappel down the side of the house. The recipe for fun is pretty simple raising boys: Add to any activity an element of danger, stir in a little exploration, add a dash of destruction, and you've got yourself a winner.” LittlesStoriesFoundHouseFunSidesSimpleBoysWifeFailingDangerActivityElementsWindowDestructionAddWinterMy WifeSnowWinnerExplorationBedroomPreparingRecipesAdequateRopeStairsMy Boys Book:Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul Source: Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
“I raise my hand; I take a book from the other side of this desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighboring woods:-in all these I am practicing Zen, I am living Zen. No worldly discussion is necessary, or any explanation.” BookHandsSidesBoysWindowBallsRaisesCloudsWoodsDiscussionExplanationDesksWorldlyBlown Away Author:D.T. Suzuki
“As an actor, you have to be able to take all sides as well. You have to at least be able to understand things. No bad guy looks in the mirror every morning and says, boy, I'm gonna be a real bad guy this morning. He goes after his own what he's after, just like us good guys. You kind of have to take a stand and, a lot of times, you have to take the writer's stand or the stand of the character this writer has created.” WellsLooksKindRealCharacterAbleGuyActorsSidesBoysMorningMirrorsEvery MorningBad GuysGood Guy Author:Michael McKean
“Ira [Gershwin] was the shyest, most diffident boy we had ever known. In a class of lower east side rapscallions, his soft-spoken gentleness and low-keyed personality made him a lovable incongruity. He spoke in murmurs, hiding behind a pair of steel-rimmed glasses..Ira had a kid brother who wore high stiff collars, shirts with cuffs and went out with girls.” MadeKidsGirlSidesBehindsKnownClassBoysBrotherPersonalityLowsEastShirtsPairsSpokesHidingSteelGentlenessCollarsLovableSpectaclesIraGershwinCuffsEast SideIncongruity Author:Yip Harburg
“You might be raised as a boy in a very conservative environment and then somehow, at some point, there was a side of me that felt really powerful and sensual in a way that was more feminine. For me, it's not about living my life as a boy or a girl - but I'm also not trans - it's just that one day you wake up feeling masculine, and one day you wake up feeling feminine. The flickering in between those two states is what's most fertile for me.” WayTwoStatesFeelingsMightGirlFeltSidesPowerfulBoysEnvironmentOne DayWake UpRaisedConservativeSensualFeminineLiving My LifeMasculineTransFertileReally Powerful Author:Arca
“The lawyers have escaped most criticism [and undeservedly so]. The tax shelters [were approved by lawyers, who got paid huge commissions to do so] and every miscreant had a high-falutin' lawyer at his side. Why don't more law firms vote with their feet and not take clients who have signs on them that say, "I'm a skunk and will be hard to handle?" I've noticed that firms that avoid trouble over long periods of time have an institutional process that tunes bad clients out. Boy, if I were running a law firm, I'd want a system like that because a lot of firms have a lot of bad clients.” IfsWantLongHardRunningLawProcessSidesBoysTroubleFeetHugePeriodsTaxesCriticismVotePaidLawyerHandleFirmTunesShelterClientsApprovedLong Periods Of TimeLaw FirmsHard To Handle Author:Charlie Munger
“I grew up around a lot of boys - all my friends on my street were boys, so I was the only girl for a while hanging out with them. I have a little bit of a tomboy aspect; I love to be comfortable. But, I do have a sexy girly side as well - I just love sportswear.” WellsLittlesGirlBitsSidesBoysStreetsGrewComfortableLittle BitGrew UpMy FriendsAspectSexyHanging OutGirly Author:LIZ
“I was quite naïve, a boy from Southport. When I went to art college in Leeds, I lived in a basement flat, and I heard clunking on the stairs all night, and I thought it was just nurses going to work on the night shift at the local hospital! Then I found out it was all working girls upstairs. I suppose I came from a protected background and had my eyes opened wide by that side of city life.” ArtEyeNightGirlFoundSidesCitiesBoysHeardCollegeWideBackgroundsLocalsFlatsHospitalsNurseProtectedGoing To WorkAll NightStairsBasementsCity LifeUpstairsNight ShiftLeedsWorking Girl Author:Marc Almond
“I went to this boy's choir school when I was growing up, and I think that the first time that I consciously started making music was when this one kid joined our class. He was an amazing pianist and would come up with all these ideas. I've always had a really competitive side, so I saw him doing that, and was like, "I have to try writing songs as well."” ThinkingWritingTryingFirstsWellsIdeasKidsSchoolSongSidesClassBoysGrowing UpSawsGrowingFirst TimeCome UpWriting SongsChoirPianist Author:St. Lucia
“[Adolf] Hitler had a very strong adolescent side to him, emotionally he was like a boy in certain things, like film stars and gossip.” FilmCertainStrongStarsSidesBoysGossipVery StrongLike A BoyFilm Stars Author:Gretl Braun