“There is a porter at the door and at the reception-desk a grey-haired woman and a sleek young man. 'I want a… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office… I worked in… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
“Such a shame that I didn’t get to say good-bye to my fellow inmates,” he said sarcastically. “Actually, Puchalski was the only… — Julie James Copy Share Image
“The voice came from the night all around him, in his head and out of it. "What do you want?' it repeated.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that… — John Todd Copy Share Image
“He's been asleep since the war began. He knows this now. In defending himself from death he lost his grip on life.… — Steven Galloway Copy Share Image
“THINGS I DON'T LIKE TO SEE. I'm a modest young man, I'd have you all know, And I can't bear to hear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Captain Kidd said, It has been said by authorities that the law should apply the same to the king and to the… — Paulette Jiles Copy Share Image
“….On my walks to the village, I got to know some of the villagers a little better. It didn’t take very long… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
“You do not lie so good, Yellow Hair. Your eyes make big talk against you. But that is okay. We have had… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
“Beba moved away for a moment and observed the scene. Standing in the water up to his waist, a young man in… — Dubravka Ugrešić Copy Share Image
We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I have a feeling you haven’t invited me here for kissing. Though it never hurts to ask.” He grinned at my ensemble… — Hunting Prince Dracula, Kerri Maniscalco Copy Share Image
“And you make people nervous, young man," she said - most equably, for her. "You either take to somebody or you don't.… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
When young men or women are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Will Smith would say your five closest friends are what you end up to be and ever since I heard him say… — Cory Hardrict Copy Share Image
“After breakfast the host takes the young man into a corner, and explains to him that what he saw was the ghost… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Of course,” said Karl. “They built the new house for the summer. They didn’t mean to stay here in the winter at… — Pansy Copy Share Image
“one night, they went down to the Village for dinner at an italian restaurant. most of the band had picked up young… — Ellis Amburn Copy Share Image
“I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. But if there's anyone I want to be like when… — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
For young women, I would say don't worry so much about your weight. Girls spend way too much time thinking about that,… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“Candle In the Wind Author: Bernie Tauplin Goodbye Norma Jeane. Though I never knew you at all. You had the grace to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He reasoned, even as a young man, that traditions may linger as he walked though the oracles of time. In later years… — Andrew Coster Copy Share Image
“Encouraged by this to a further examination of his opinions, she proceeded to question him on the subject of books; her favourite… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
How we act and dress reflects how we regard where we are and who we are. Let me demonstrate. One of the… — Harold G. Hillam Copy Share Image
It has been our experience that if a young man decides to go on a mission, he can not only play well… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
I used to tell the story about as a young man in high school one of the professors came in and put… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“In an ideal world, a young man should not be an ironical person. At that age, irony prevents growth, stunts the imagination.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Girl going past clinging to a young man's arm. Putting up her face like a duck to the moon. Drinking joy. Green… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
“Simm watched the hanging with disgust. Why would the young man pretend to be a spy when he had no skills and… — Dory Codington Copy Share Image
“Look at the thrush.” The young man glanced at the small speckled bird as it cocked its head to the side, observing… — Elizabeth Hunter Copy Share Image
“Poor young man! he was one of the four subaltern officers of La Rochelle. How horrible is the idea of their (fancied)… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“But this would have been to ignore the young man of only twenty-five, who, for all his, by now, increasing and debilitating… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“The Graduate, an Oscar-winning movie that appeared in late 1967, dramatized these changes. It featured a young man (Dustin Hoffman) who was… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“The man in the headdress nodded. “On that note, I’d like to quickly ask David if there’s been any headway in getting… — Yahtzee Croshaw Copy Share Image