Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his ‘English prep’ and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all.

C. S. Lewis

Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the grass was soaking wet. His name was unfortunately Eustace Scrubb but he wasn't a bad sort.

Mark Twain

We have nine children now half boys and half girls.

Mark Jackson

We have never won the national title. There will be some good teams there and it will be hard. The boys had a couple of days off after the Auckland final but are now back into training.

Gloria Smith

We want our students to be A students and we know they can do it. There are special items for B students such as bracelets and things for boys like fire trucks and chess sets.

Aaron Sorkin

Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,

Alan Trammell

I'm a big boy. I've been through enough that I understand how things are.

Charles Dudley Warner

A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.

Charles Dudley Warner

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

If the afternoon had been blue, there might have been less desire.

Jake Delhomme

We want to run the ball, ... I think that is our blueprint for success. And we do that pretty well.

Nancy Idland

We have musicians from as far away as Ontario and Seattle traveling all the way to Greenville to be a part of our first blues festival - this is exciting.

Jason Gunkle

When fireworks come back down, they can land on a blue tarp.

Aaron Stanford

I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

Ann Fox

We've seen people pay $2,000 over blue book,

Linda Pierce

The crab cakes with the walnuts and blue cheese go together nicely.

Brian Johnson

When I moved here, there was no Blue Knights. When I arrived, I went to the international organization and received permission to start a new chapter.

Matt Mathes

We set up a broad blueprint for what we want to see happened over the next 10 to 15 years. Part of our mandate is to serve the public but also to protect the forests.

C. S. Lewis

It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray.

Agnetha Faltskog

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.

Agnes Varda

I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.

Agnes Repplier

Economics and ethics have little in common.

Charles W. Chesnutt

We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things

Charles de Gaulle

I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little.

Charles de Gaulle

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

Charles Dickens

Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.

Charles Caleb Colton

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.