Avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
“I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be so and painted only the ideal aspects of… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
“In order to understand how a man receives a wound, you must understand the central truth of a boy’s journey to manhood:… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
“Not many boys like boys; but they like being a boy, showing it, being it together" (22) (rbt: where does this come… — Duvert Summers Copy Share Image
The only difference between fear and excitement is what we label it. The two are pretty much the same physiological/emotional reaction. With… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
As a kid I had a dream - I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the bike I must… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Actually, my ambition at eight or nine years old was to be one of Little Richard's sax players, and that's when I… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I want these to be names that young girls and boys and kids of all genders grow up knowing. It shouldn't just… — Anita Sarkeesian Copy Share Image
Daughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys found it almost impossible. Such boys were often severely damaged and spent the rest… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I've always dreamed of getting to know the women of other countries better. When I was a boy, I remember, I used… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Everybody says the first cut if the deepest. It's so true. I don't know if it's because it's the best love, but… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
~I used to think, What if there's an interesting movie and it conflicts with the boys going to a new school for… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I'd like to go back and revisit the Flash/Captain Cold relationship, because that to me has been the heart of it all… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you're in there some guys come and… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I think you need humour and a sense of fun, which is what I try to bring to my books to leaven… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
And I'm going to tell the truth: I didn't like that Sean Penn movie Into the Wild so much. Yes! I know… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Go to a playground: Little girls get called 'bossy' all the time, a word that's almost never used for boys. And that… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Be ever gentle with the children God has given you; watch over them constantly; reprove them earnestly, but not in anger. In… — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
How did you ever get here, Maddie Brodatt?" "'Second to the right, and then straight on till morning,'" she answered promptly-it did… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
At the time, I didn't know why, but I know now that when I was a little boy, I was scared to… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
He [Sir Alex Ferguson] used to play tapes of Bill Shankly talking. I remember that and a singer he liked. I don't… — Gordon Strachan Copy Share Image
I always like to pretend two things: one, I'm sitting in the seat beside you watching the game together. I'll say, 'Wasn't… — Chick Hearn Copy Share Image
With his back to us, Sean tugs the halter from the mare's head. She kicks out, but he steps out of the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Everything I ever learnt as a small boy came from my father, and I never found anything he ever told me to… — Irving Pichel Copy Share Image
On a personal level, I would like my loved ones to know that I have always done the best that I could… — Mike Love Copy Share Image
The idea of The Boy Vs. The Cynic is the tension between the wide-eyed optimism in youthfulness where you think nothing can… — John Reuben Zappin Copy Share Image
I've always been a bit repelled by "Sunset Boulevard", which is wrong about almost everything it touches, whether it's fame, Hollywood, screenwriters,… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Nine times out of 10 when people do a tribute album or tribute songs for somebody, it's what I call 'white boys… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should have the opportunity of… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Adam wasn't certain what came first with Blue--her treating the boys as friends, or them all becoming friends. It seemed to Adam… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Washington is a city of locker-room boys, and all the old, outmoded notions apply: men and women are ushered to separate rooms… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Sixty-five percent of Americans don't have the conversation with their children. So you're sending off boys and girls off to college, off… — Mariska Hargitay Copy Share Image
I think that it gave me a really strong feeling of my life force and a confidence in myself. I felt like… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
When I hit Hollywood, it was full-blown. I was a party boy. It amazes me that I made it ... to be… — Leslie Jordan Copy Share Image
My parents have always had a very limited command of English. Of course, when we first arrived in the UK, none of… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image