Other Boys Quotes
42 quotes by 36 authors
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Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except…
— Charles Darwin
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The other boys at Yale came from wealthy families, and none of them were investing outside the United States, and I thought, 'That is very…
— John Templeton
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I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I…
— Robert Crumb
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There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if…
— Auberon Waugh
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for…
— Harry Mathews
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[As a young teenager] Galois read [Legendre's] geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.
— Eric Temple Bell
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I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of…
— G. H. Hardy
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Like thousands of other boys, I had a little chemical laboratory in our cellar and think that some of our friends thought me a bit…
— Linus Pauling
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My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more…
— Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and…
— John Lennon
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All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and…
— Roald Dahl
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When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would…
— Roald Dahl
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At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.
— James Dyson
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It's fun chasing boys, especially when you're young, but I think it takes time and life experience to notice the other boys.
— Reese Witherspoon
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I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I…
— Colm Toibin
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I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and in roaming the…
— H P Lovecraft
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I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.
— Jonathan Franzen
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When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw past…
— Janet Fitch
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So I hear we get to go to town this weekend. Want to catch a movie or something? --Z P.S. That is, if Jimmy doesn't…
— Ally Carter
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Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation, through the testing…
— Sylvia Plath
Who Wrote These Other Boys Quotes
36 authors contributed a total of 42 Other Boys Quotes, led by these top contributors: