“It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.” KnowsMenLooksTurnsMistakeBoysWisePlentyClockNew Beginnings Author:Mel Gibson
“In Middle America men are awakening. Like awkward and untrained boys we begin to turn toward maturity and with our awakening we hunger for song. But in our towns and fields there are few memory haunted places. Here we stand in roaring city streets, on steaming coal heaps, in the shadow of factories from which come only the grinding roar of machines. We do not sing but mutter in the darkness. Our lips are cracked with dust and with the heat of furnaces. We but mutter and feel our way toward the promise of song.” MenWayFeelsAmericaSongTurnsMemoriesCitiesBoysDarknessStreetsMiddleFieldsPromiseShadowMachinesTownsLipsHungerAwakeningDustMaturityHeatFactoriesAwkwardCoalCrackedRoaringFurnacesOur TownCity StreetsMiddle America Author:Sherwood Anderson
“I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.” ThinkingPlayCharacterTurnsThreeBoysWrittenSilentTallTall Women Book:Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee
“I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.” WritingFeelingsSchoolTurnsBoysObsessionSongwritersInfatuationGeekTurn Me Author:Ellie Goulding
“Eggs are very much like small boys. If you overheat them or over beat them, they will turn on you and no amount of future love will right the wrong.” IfsTurnsBoysFoodAmountBeatsCookingEggsCulinaryTurn-onFuture Love Author:Irena Chalmers
“... Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty.” YearsTurnsBoysTenDifficultyTwentiesNineNine YearsNineteenImmaturity Author:John Boyne
“I was one of the boys who made passes at girls who wore glasses. Any girl who was smarter than me - that was a huge turn-on.” MadeTurnsGirlBoysHugeGlassesSmarterTurn-on Author:Ernest Cline
“Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.” KnowsTurnsForgetBrainBoysShotsEpisodes Author:Gillian Jacobs
“Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles in ultraconventional style. We've seen little girls whose mothers are doctors absolutely refuse to take the doctors' parts in their play, insisting that "only boys can be doctors," against all reason. Girls do more washing and drying of clothes, dishes, and babies than they've ever seen their own mothers do, and they turn their play husbands into TV-watching drones who do nothing but talk about money.” YearsChildrenLittlesMatterReasonPlayMotherTurnsGirlParentBoysRolesFiveFourStyleTvsBabyHusbandClothesDoctorsNo Matter WhatRefusePopsFive YearsSexismDishesWashingDronesFive Year OldsInsistingChildren Playing Author:Stella Chess
“Wolf Boy is absolutely beguiling. Evan Kuhlman has boundless empathy for all his characters, and his wonderful protagonist Stephen is, in turn, boundlessly inventive. . . . This is an auspicious debut.” CharacterTurnsBoysWonderfulEmpathyBoundlessProtagonistsDebut Author:Valerie Sayers
“Most of the boys would come with bits of equipment that their fathers had given them from their war days - helmets, canteens, binoculars, these kinds of things - that leant a kind of authenticity to the games we were playing. But, of course, my father never gave me anything. So I began to question him. You know, Why don't you have anything from the war? And I think he was...embarrassed to tell me he hadn't fought, because, you know, little boys want to turn their fathers into heroes, and he didn't want to be diminished in my eyes.” ThinkingKnowsWantKindLittlesWarEyeTurnsCoursesFatherGamesGivenBitsBoysHeroAuthenticityEmbarrassedEquipmentLittle BoysHelmetBinocularsCanteen Author:Paul Auster
“No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument - the Incorporated National Will. ... When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American. And nobody will ever say "Heil" to him, nor will they call him "Führer" or "Duce." But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike bleat of "O.K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaaay!"” PeopleBigsTurnsBoysLike YouDependsUniversalElectionInstrumentsDemocraticChiefsPlatformsDictatorshipDictator Author:Dorothy Thompson
“They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.” SaidCharacterTurnsFoundCompassionBoysSympathyCartoonImpatientDeep Down Author:Audrey Meadows
“This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never knows. And punishment and clemency are alike inexplicable.” KnowsMayDoeHas BeensTurnsBoysCrimePunishmentInexplicableClemency Book:The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection Source: The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection
“If sexuality is beginning in such a skewed way: that boys expect to receive sexual pleasure and girls are expected to give it without reciprocation, is that why young women, even unintentionally, turn to getting something else in return for sex? Whether it be popularity, career success, professional attention.” IfsWayGivingYoungTurnsGirlSexPleasureAttentionBoysCareersReturnSexualityExpectedPopularityYoung WomenCareer Success Author:Cris Mazza
“Two young salmon are swimming along one day. As they do, they are passed by a wiser, older fish coming the other way. The wiser fish greets the two as he passes, saying, "Morning boys, how's the water?" The other two continue to swim in silence for a little while, until the first one turns to the other and asks, "What the hell is water?"” WayFirstsLittlesTwoYoungTurnsAsksWaterSilenceBoysMorningHellOne DayFishesSwimSwimmingWiserSalmon Author:David Foster Wallace
“Like most Catholic boys, I wanted to be Jesus Christ. I could never get the turn-the-other-cheek thing down, though.” WantedTurnsJesusChristBoysJesus ChristCatholicCheeksTurn The Other Cheek Author:Jim Carrey
“Basically for everything that comes out of Five Four, I've come up with the idea or changed it in some way. I'm also working with Putnam Accessory Group, a private label hat manufacturer. I'm in the process of re-branding a line they have called Chuck. It was mostly hats and bags, but I'm adding apparel and eyewear and whatever I feel like adding to turn it more into a brand. I'm supposed to be working with Pharrell on Billionaire Boys Club, but that's on hold.” WayFeelsIdeasTurnsProcessLinesBoysFiveFourGroupsChangedCome UpClubsBrandsLabelsSupposed To BeHatsBagsBrandingBillionaireChuckAccessoriesApparelEyewear Author:Mark McNairy
“This particular one was very, very heartwarming and is the relationship of an older man and a young boy that are essentially on the run. And so yeah, as I say, Barry Crump wrote a lot of books and this one got into the hands of Taika Watiti who then writing the screenplay decided to really vamp up if that's the word, or ramp up and modernize certain phrases - getting in the humor. So he added a lot of a real comedy perspective onto it which is what I think the story needed anyway, especially for it to turn into a film. And it worked.” IfsThinkingMenWritingBookRealStoriesHandsRunningFilmYoungCertainTurnsBoysComedyParticularPerspectiveNeededDecidedYeahPhrasesScreenplaysHeartwarmingRampOlder ManVamp Author:Rhys Darby