Other Guys Quotes - Page 3

• Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. You've got all the fans, lots of hangers-on jumping up and shouting different words. But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

  Frank Bruno

  Sports, Lonely, Jumping

  "Q: Did you feel suicidal before you were sectioned? A: Nah, I'm not that brave or clever. I wouldn't know how to tie a rope, know what I mean?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2005.

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• People say I'm a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note.

  Joel McCrea

  People, Guy, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.

  Lee Child

  Guy, Can Do, I Can

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• Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam.

  Les Claypool

  Personality, Guy, Feelings

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No seriously... when there's families, you tend to go back to your room after the gig rather than go for a drink with the other guys. But there's always someone who's got something going, like the tour manager.

  Phil Collins

  Guy, Gigs, Rooms

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• My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.

  Beth Ditto

  Mom, Mother, Dad

  Beth Ditto (2012). “Coal to Diamonds”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Early on I was just a kid in a cowboy hat with a bunch of other guys in a room that were putting out some records. Now thank God, in the past 3 or 4 years, when.. it's really hard to burn an image of a face with a song these days. I think that the songs like 'Don't Happen Twice' and 'Young' were songs that helped me do that and I think that 'I Go Back'(did) that even more.

  Kenny Chesney

  Song, Kids, Cowboy

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• If I have any particular appeal to women, maybe it's because I listen more than other guys do and appreciate how they think and feel about things.

  Ryan Gosling

  Thinking, Appreciate, Guy

  "If women love me it’s because I listen …not for my abs" by Amy Jones, www.thesun.co.uk. August 25, 2012.

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• He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.

  Stephen King

  Eye, People, Guy

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.637, Simon and Schuster

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• Why were we fighting if you had that kind of power?" In unison, every ex-Dark-Hunter and Nick said, "Just because you can doesn't mean you should." "And sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right," Wulf said. When the other guys looked confused by his solo outburst, he added, "I guess I'm the only one he ever said that one to.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Confused, Mean, Fighting

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Acheron”, p.503, Hachette UK

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• Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.

  S. E. Hinton

  Guy, Way, Outsiders

  S. E. Hinton (1995). “The Outsiders: That was Then, this is Now ; Rumble Fish”

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• I didn't like seeing you with him" he says. "I don't think I'd like seeing you with any other guy....beside me.

  Simone Elkeles

  Thinking, Guy, Seeing

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• Dating is like trying to catch a fish. Some guys go to the gym and have huge muscles and six-pack abs, and that attracts a lot of women. Other guys, they go and learn how to become pick-up artists so they charm their way into a woman's heart, at least for the night. Then there are guys like myself, who don't have either of those, but we have some level of generosity and can treat women with respect and open a door for them or buy them gifts. And surprisingly, buying presents happens to be one of the languages of love! And it's one that many women relate to.

  Brandon Wade

  Heart, Artist, Night

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• You may be the only guy my age I've ever met who knows what bergamot is, much less that it's in Earl Grey tea." "Yes, well," Jace said, with a supercilious look, "I'm not like other guys. Besides," he added, flipping a book off the shelf, "at the Institute we have to take classes in basic medicinal uses for plants. It's required." "I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners." Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Class, Guy

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• Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

  Andrew Vachss

  Guy, Camouflage, Helping

  Andrew Vachss (2001). “False Allegations”, p.255, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Because after the haze of not being kissed cleared I was forced to face the facts that: 1. Jack was a very bad guy. 2. Jack had threatened Fred. 3. Just thinking that he was going to kiss me made me tingly everywhere 4. In a way no other guy had 5. And that was without our mouths even touching 6. Which meant that 7. If they did 8. Wooohoo baby! 9. Except that it did not matter 10. At all 11. Because he was plotting against fred 12. And I was complicit in whatever he planned if I didn't tell Mr. Curtis 13. And I was trapped in a boat with a woman singing showtunes.

  Michele Jaffe

  Baby, Kissing, Thinking

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• While I was walking I passed these two guys that were unloading this big Christmas tree off a truck. One guy, kept saying to the other guy, 'Hold the sonunvabitch up! Hold it up, for Chrissake!' It certainly was a gorgeous way to talk about a Christmas tree.

  J. D. Salinger

  Two, Guy, Tree

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• I can't blame her. but wonder why she's here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having someone the others have abandoned?

  Charles Bukowski

  Guy, Lucky, Blame

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Love is a Dog From Hell”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• My most recent faith struggle is not one of intellect. I don’t really do that anymore. Sooner or later you just figure out there are some guys who don’t believe in God and they can prove He doesn't exist, and there are some other guys who do believe in God and they can prove He does exist, and the argument stopped being about God a long time ago and now it’s about who is smarter, and honestly I don’t care.

  Donald Miller

  Believe, Struggle, Long

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.103, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Average, Guy, Claims

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• What makes the strength of a soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a whole lot of signals, it's the strength he's able to concentrate within himself, by staying centered.

  Muriel Barbery

  Guy, Soldier, Trying

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, 2006.

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• Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Guy, Towns, Freak

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• And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

  Will Smith

  Sleep, Bad Ass, Work Ethic

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• I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.

  Marat Safin

  Guy, Being The Best

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• Wanna rock you, girl, with a butterfly tunic. / No, I'm not gay, I'm just your emo enuch. / Gonna smile real shy, won't cop a feel, / 'cause I'm your virgin crush, your supersafe deal. / Let those other guys keep sexing. / You and me, we be texting / 'bout unicorns and rainbows and our perfect love. / Girl, we fit together like a hand in a glove. / Now I don't mean that nasty, tell your mum don't get mad. / I even wrote 'You're awesome' on your maxi pads.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Crush, Emo

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