Boys Quotes
  
  
  
	
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		AHA!" interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. "Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Norton Juster
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Hang on. This Lord Voldything's back you say?... and now he's sending dismembers after you?... I see. Well that settles it, YOU CAN GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE BOY!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joanne Rowling
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Catullus
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Twelve years ago I made a mock
Of filthy trades and traffics;
I considered what they meant by stock;
I wrote delightful sapphics;
I knew the streets of Rome and Troy,
I supped with fates and Fairies--
Twelve years ago I was a boy,
A happy boy at Drury's.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Winthrop Mackworth Praed
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Wordsworth
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Miriam Makeba
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hal Borland
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Boys! Are they always this impossible? Do they always say cryptic, indecipherable things? (Note to self: work with Liz to adapt her boy-to-English translator into a more mobile form—like maybe a watch or necklace.)
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ally Carter
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how you build it, the motel remains the haunt of the quick and dirty, where the only locals are Chamber of Commerce boys every fourth Thursday. Who ever heard the returning traveler exclaim over one of the great motels of the world he stayed in? Motels can be big, but never grand.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Lewis Trogdon
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If anyone had told me in the '60s that 20 years later we'd still be talking about whether pot was worse than this or that, I'd have said, Oh, come off it, boys.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paul McCartney
			
			
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		I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ang Lee
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I lump Canada and the States together. I like good old North American boys.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tricia Helfer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ray Bradbury
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ernest Hemingway
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Bowie
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Boys do what they want to do, Men do what they need to do.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Norm Parker
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where they two mutually inspire each other to live– if I’ m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hayao Miyazaki
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Arelia looked up at Macon. "It's not the house that protects her. It's the boy. I've never seen anything like it. No Caster can come between them.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kami Garcia