Lad Quotes - Page 5

• We didn't come here to set any fashions in music. We merely came to bring a much-needed touch of home to some lads who have been here a couple of years.

  Glenn Miller

  Fashion, Couple, Home

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• Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.

  Lawrence Block

  Sex, Young, Booze

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• What's always got me is the fact that when people talked on the telly about Iraq, before Afghanistan kicked off, you'd get only these public-school-type army officers talking about what was going on out there. I kept thinking, 'Why don't we get the true voice of the squaddie? Why don't we hear from the lads on the battlefield?'

  Ross Kemp

  School, Army, Thinking

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• When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them - watching 'On the Waterfront,' my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando.

  Eddie Marsan

  Character, Eye, Thinking

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• The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.

  Tim Powers

  Wages

  Tim Powers (2011). “The Drawing of the Dark”, p.140, Del Rey

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• Come back and stand with us, lad. We will all go down together that's what makes us who we are.

  David Gemmell

  Together, Who We Are

  David Gemmell (2011). “The King Beyond The Gate”, p.231, Hachette UK

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• I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back.

  Sarah Hall

  Tattoo, Men, He Man

  Sarah Hall (2010). “The Electric Michelangelo”, p.149, Faber & Faber

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• But surely "Argh" is the sound of a sort of strangulated scream.
  "Aargh" is the sound of a stabbing, or a falling off a cliff.
  "Arr" is, I think, the noise you're looking for. It's the noise pirates make when they don't have anything better to do. "Arr, Jim Lad" = Pirate noise. "Aargh, Jim Lad" = sound of pirate falling off a cliff.

  Neil Gaiman

  Fall, Thinking, Pirate

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• I'm a London lad, but I'm fascinated by America. I want to take a motorcycling trip across the country and see those wide open spaces.

  Charlie Cox

  Country, America, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.

  Ellis Peters

  Home, Circles, Half

  Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.3066, Head of Zeus Ltd

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• There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.

  Ken Kesey

  Failure, Facts, Failing

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• "Hope, you see, Wal'r," said the Captain, sagely, "Hope. It's that as animates you. Hope is a buoy, for which you overhaul your Little Warbler, sentimental diwision, but Lord, my lad, like any other buoy, it only floats; it can't be steered nowhere. Along with the figure-head of Hope,' said the Captain, 'there's a anchor; but what's the good of my having a anchor, if I can't find no bottom to let it go in?"

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Anchors, Let It Go

  Charles Dickens (1872). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.284

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• The whole film business was built on immigrants: Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz and all these hefty lads.

  Larry Fessenden

  Film, Wilder

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?" Mort thought for a moment. "No," he said eventually, "what?" There was silence. Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right.

  Terry Pratchett

  Silence, Ems, Answers

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• The only ones who ever come here from your lands are the minstrels, and the lovers, and the mad. And you don't look like much of a minstrel, and you're— pardon me for saying so lad, but it's true— ordinary as cheese crumbs. So it's love if you ask me.

  Neil Gaiman

  Land, Mad, Ordinary

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

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• For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Maturity, Progress, Culture

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.11, Random House

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• And sure enough,the youth in question was not his usual dapper self. His face was puffy, his eyes red and wild; his shirt(distressingly unbuttoned)hung over his trousers in sloppy fashion. All very out of charactar: Mandrake was normally defined by his rigid self-control. Somthing seemed to have stripped all that away. Well, the poor lad was emotionally brittle.He needed sympathetic handling. "You're a mess," I sneered "You've lost it big time. What's happened? All the guilt and self-loathing suddenly get to you? It can't just be that someone else called me, surly?

  Jonathan Stroud

  Fashion, Eye, Self

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• One day, lad, your eyes will light upon a woman, and you will never forget that glint in her eye, that toss of her head, or sway of her hips. You will dream of her, whether you are asleep of awake. She will possess your mind, and your body will be on fire for her. Nothing will ever erase the linger of her scent in your nostrils, the touch of her hand on your body, the feel of her flesh beneath your fingers. When you find a woman to love, Cnut, your life changes forever.

  Helen Hollick

  Dream, Life Changing, Eye

  Helen Hollick (2004). “A Hollow Crown: The Story of Emma, Queen of Saxon England”, William Heinemann

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• A kiss is the prize?’ he asked sadly. ‘Even more than giving me the rest of you? It should be the other way round, Princess. In the real world, it's called courting. You let a lad kiss you and then you offer him more.’ ‘Let me tell you something, Olivier,’ she said with tears of sorrow in her eyes, ‘this is my real world.

  Melina Marchetta

  Real, Princess, Eye

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.575, Penguin UK

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• When you find the one, my lad, grab her up in your arms and never let her go. You may never get another chance.

  Gaelen Foley

  Another Chance, May, Arms

  Gaelen Foley (2002). “Lord of Fire”, p.143, Ballantine Books

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• You know, all the evil in the world, all the sadness comes from not having a good answer to that question: What do I do next? You just keep thinking of good things to do, lad. You'll be all right. We'll all be all right. I wanted you to know that.

  Geoff Ryman

  Sadness, Thinking, Evil

  Geoff Ryman (2013). “Paradise Tales: and Other Stories”, p.157, Small Beer Press

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• I'm going to Ibiza with the lads! I’ll probably come back a raging alcoholic.

  Katie Taylor

  Ibiza, Rage, Alcoholics

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• It was Tottenham at home. I thought: 'Please don't go on about Tottenham, we all know what Tottenham are about. They are nice and tidy but we'll f****** do them.' Alex came in and said: 'Lads, it's only Tottenham.' And that was it! Brilliant!

  Roy Keane

  Football, Nice, Home

  "Roy Keane says he and Alex Ferguson were on same wavelength at United" by James Riach, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2014.

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• I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.

  David Ginola

  Weekend, Climbing, Safety

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• Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness....Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?

  Joseph N. Welch

  War, Thinking, Done

  Statements to Joseph McCarthy on the 30th day of the Army - McCarthy hearings, June 9, 1954.

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