“I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War.” BookWarStuffBoysWifeWeekColdCoupleMy WifeCold WarSpyLike A BoyDemolish Author:Noel Gallagher
“When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.” ChristianBoysWeekAtheismSixFables Author:George Meredith
“The neighborhood children, of course, were forbidden by their parents to play with my little boy, Garth, so I finally got him a little kitten to play with. A couple of weeks later we found it on the porch with its neck wrung.” ChildrenLittlesPlayCoursesFoundParentBoysWeekAtheismCouplePositive AtheismNecksNeighborhoodForbiddenLittle BoysKittenPorch Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, "You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?” FeelsYearsMeanSaidTwoHardLastsFunResponsibilityBoysMillionsPlansWeekPrideProjectsDollarsExecutivesVacationLast YearTaking ResponsibilityEightyTwo WeeksMillion DollarsRespondingDummy Author:Lee Iacocca
“I learned an invaluable lesson from a kid in Argentina when we were playing Buenos Aires in 2002. I came out of the hotel and this 16-year-old-boy asked me to sign his copy of my Six Wives of Henry VIII album. As I was signing it I asked him 'what does a 16 year-old like about this old music?' and he looked at me, quite hurt, and said, 'it might be old to you, Mr Wakeman, but I only heard it for the first time last week. When you hear something for the first time, it's new.' I've never forgotten that.” YearsFirstsDoeSaidMightKidsLastsHurtBoysWifeHeardWeekLessonsSixFirst TimeForgottenAlbumsHotelCopiesSigningInvaluableArgentinaOld MusicHenry ViiiBuenos AiresHenry V Author:Rick Wakeman
“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
“Yeah? Rock 'n' Roll is fast, you know. If all goes according to plan I could be in rehab next thursday. Tuesday week I'll be living on an island with a small Indian boy.” IfsKnowsHumorFunnyNextBoysPlansWeekRocksYeahIndianIslandsRock N RollLiving OnTuesdayRehabThursdayAccording To Plan Author:Noel Fielding
“I went to Art College and during the summer I made a movie with my brother. I got hold of a little camera, wrote a script and dragged my brother, Tony, out of bed to help me (which he did not like), so that we could shoot a film every day for six weeks. It was made for £65 and it was called Boy On A Bicycle.” LittlesArtMadeHelpingFilmBoysWeekCollegeBrotherBedSixSummerCamerasScriptsMy BrotherHelp MeBicycle Author:Ridley Scott
“During the last century a seven-year-old boy, Harry Service, was lost from his family's home in Manitoba and lived for two weeks with a badger in its underground den. When he was found he said that the badger had brought him food several times.” YearsSaidTwoHomeLastsFoundLostBoysWeekCenturySevenSeven YearsTwo WeeksDensBadgers Book:Wild Heritage Source: Wild Heritage
“It goes without saying that what a girl goes through, boys could not even comprehend. If we get the flu, we need a week. We're idiots. But what was the most powerful realization to me was, how do single mothers with a low income cope? I can't complain about my dumb life. That's what was most revelatory to me.” IfsNeedsI CanMotherGirlPowerfulBoysWeekLowsComplainingIncomeRealizationDumbIdiotMost PowerfulFluSingle MotherLow Income Author:Gavin Rossdale
“Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.” PeopleWayMindEyeAgeBlackWhiteBoysLaughingWeekBrokenMouthsCornersNewspapersMagazinesEveningHis EyesGet BackGangTwistedOf My MindSwollenEmmett Till Author:Muhammad Ali
“I tell ya, my wife, we get along good cause we have our own arrangement. I mean, one night a week I go out with the boys and one night a week, she goes out with the boys.” MeanNightCausesBoysWifeWeekMy WifeArrangementsOne NightGood Causes Author:Rodney Dangerfield
“The old actors in the old days, they used to go on tour, to get the play ready for the West End, and to learn their lines. The old timers used to say, "Be very careful, dear boy, what you get in to during the first weeks of a long tour."” FirstsLongEndsPlayUsedActorsLinesBoysWeekReadyGoes OnWestDearCarefulOld DaysOld TimeTimerWest EndOld Timers Author:Tom Courtenay
“As far as I am concerned, collectively, the right wing of the blogosphere is the 'boy who called traitor.' Not a week goes by when I hear that so and so should be ostracized because they are a treasonous rat, they are a commie symp, whatever.” ShouldBoysWeekConcernedWingsRatsRight WingTraitor Author:John Cole
“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