Boys Quotes - Page 31

• When I see a short schedule, my question to the director is, are you really comfortable with this, or are you doing it to be a good boy? At the end, you only win the medal if the film is good, you don't win a medal if the movie is on time.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Winning, Directors, Schedules

  Source: deadline.com

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• It's really important for boys to have a father around, or a grandfather, or an uncle - a man they can really relate to who loves them, and who they know loves them.

  Laura Bush

  Uncles, Father, Men

  "Laura Bush's New Goal". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 2, 2007.

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• I think that the boys have a tendency to be less receptive than the girls.

  Goldie Hawn

  Girl, Thinking, Tendencies

  "Goldie Hawn Talks ‘MindUP’ and Her Mission to Bring Children Happiness". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2011.

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• My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.

  Alan Bennett

  School, Oxford, Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Book, Hands, Clouds

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• To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Meditation, Doe, Pieces

  Fulton J. Sheen (2004). “The Priest Is Not His Own”, p.69, Ignatius Press

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• The funny thing about the boy who gave away his loaves and fish is that he, too, ended the day with a full stomach.

  Mark Hart

  Funny Things, Stomach, Fishes

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• When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but to a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. I think of the books on library shelves, without their jackets, years old, and a countryish teen-aged boy finding them, and having them speak to him. The review, the stacks in Brentano's, are just hurdles to get over, to place the books on that shelf.

  John Updike

  New York, Book, Writing

  John Updike (2013). “Picked-Up Pieces: Essays”, p.472, Random House

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• It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Ashamed, Fourteen, Wells

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.137, Jerome K. Jerome

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• In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of the universe, or both alike were dispersed into atoms.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Principles, Atoms, Ends

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• According to the legend an evil old doctor, who called himself God and us dogs, created the first boy in his adolescent image. The boy peopled the garden with male phantoms that rose from his ejaculations. This angered God, who was getting on in years. He decided it endangered his position as CREATOR. So he crept upon the boy and anaesthetized him and made Eve from his rib. Henceforth all creation of beings would process through female channels. But some of Adam's phantoms refused to let God near them under any pretext.

  William S. Burroughs

  Letting Go, Dog, Garden

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• There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.

  William S. Burroughs

  Rivers, Peaches, Swimmer

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.114, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I love my wife more than anything in the world, but boy when she had our babies, it quadrupled. There's just something about the connection.

  Tim McGraw

  Baby, Wife, Connections

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• When I was a boy we were poor and we had to make do with what we had. So my grandma used to make us quits that we used for blankets. She couldn't afford to go to the store and buy a blanket -- so she'd take scraps of cloth and sew them together. there'd be different colors and different patterns and different types of cloth -- but they all went together to make that big quilt to keep us warm.

  Jesse Jackson

  Quilts, Grandma, Color

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• For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863...

  William Faulkner

  July, Years, Two

  "Intruder in the Dust". Book by William Faulkner, 1948.

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• 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.

  Booth Tarkington

  Punishment, Doe, May

  Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection”, p.2564, eBookIt.com

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• Some boys go to college and eventually succeed in getting out. Others go to college and never succeed in getting out. The latter are called professors.

  H. L. Mencken

  College, Succeed, Professors

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• The boys in the office preferred Daft Punk and the song "Robot Rock" as an anthem, speaking excitedly and without irony about wanting to become robots one day. That made me wonder: Why? What's the pull of being a robot?

  Katherine Losse

  Song, Rocks, Office

  Katherine Losse (2012). “The Boy Kings: A Journey Into the Heart of the Social Network”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• I had big dreams when I was a boy. And I can't say that I never saw a beach house in Malibu in those dreams.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Dream, Beach, House

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• When my boy arrived in this life, on this planet, it was completely a new dimension of experience for me and my wife. I'm still riding on the wave of that experience.

  Novak Djokovic

  Wife, Riding, Dimensions

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• The day I will never forget is the day I married my wife, Tashera. Tashera is so special to my boys and me. Her energy is enough to put anyone on a cloud. Her dedication and care gives me comfort and ease.

  DMX

  Dedication, Clouds, Giving

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• Women are my biggest defenders. It's that bad-boy syndrome. Now girls chase me.

  O. J. Simpson

  Girl, Bad Boy, Syndromes

  "The Outcast" by Pat Jordan, www.newyorker.com. July 9, 2001.

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• You always get that one customer that decides that your name is boy. Or something. It certainly reinforces a respect I already had for people that are in the hospitality industry.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Names, People, Hospitality

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Any time you do an Adam Sandler film, it's kind of like a boys' club, because you're hanging out and there are guitars around, and basketballs and footballs and electric bikes and scooters and different people dropping by.

  Kevin Nealon

  Basketball, Football, Guitar

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I suspect people are going to vote for Max Burns because they know him as local boy who's got - share their values.

  George W. Bush

  People, Max, Vote

  "President Bush Discusses Midterms; War on Terror Strategy With Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. October 30, 2006.

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