Bogey's Quotes

#1. Referring to Bogey's party: A lame excuse for all the idiots in our school to drink beer and rub up against each other in hopes of distracting themselves from the pathetic emptiness of their meaningless, consumer-driven lives.

David Levithan

#2. I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.

Peter Scott

#3. That grin was pulling me into the deep end of the pool. The scary part, the part that made me search desperately for some other task I could lose myself in, was that there was a small, insistent voice urging me to dive right in.

Robin Constantine

#4. Others wonder, if the Bogey isn't wearing his pants, who is?

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#5. You want to play the Bogey-Man?...Part's already taken. I'm driven by demons you can't even imagine.

Pat Mills

#6. Everyone believes in sin, the people who charge their peers with political incorrectness and the people who regard political correctness as the bogey of a little mind. What everyone does not believe in, as nearly as I can tell, is forgiveness.

Garret Keizer

#7. I pick my nose and I'm not ashamed to admit it. If there's a bogey then just pick it, man.

Justin Timberlake

#8. We are capable of big lives. A big history. Why settle? Why choose the practical thing, the mundane thing? We are born to dream and make the things we dream about.

Nicola Yoon

#9. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.

G.K. Chesterton

#10. Every song you write you think is the last one you're going to manage. You put everything you've got into the song, and you've twisted it and pulled at it and dug in and found a way to complete it. To get another one is the trick.

Jakob Dylan

#11. It's the secret to happiness, you know. Only take what you need.

Adriana Trigiani

#12. Whenever all men are ... hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

C.S. Lewis

#13. Golf is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological, psychological and moral fight with your self; it is a test of mastery over self; and the ultimate and irreducible element of the game is to determine which of the players is the more worthy combatant.

Arnold Haultain

#14. Time to switch to decaf, princess. If you're going to shriek at every bogey that jumps out and says 'boo', you'll be exhausted before we reach the edge of the woods. -Puck

Julie Kagawa

#15. Brecht was a cynical bohemian bogey of the middle classes, but also much more than a mere provocateur. He developed and dramatized his political knowledge in remarkable ways, and was an outspoken, radical opponent of the war, its nationalism and its capitalism

Harold Bloom

#16. I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier.

Joe Hill

#17. And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press.

Albert Einstein

#18. Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

Aleister Crowley

#19. The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#20. He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

Confucius

#21. You truly have to make the very best of what you've got. We all do.

Mary Tyler Moore

#22. A year ago he had been in America. Two years ago he had been straight. Tonight he was underground, with the remains of the bogey man, lit by the torches of the children who had killed him.

Caleb Crain

#23. These are the results of public security cams at work, recording routinely those who come and go. Apparently, it functions as a wondrous preventative because nothing deters crime so much here as the fear of getting caught. Incompetence is the bogey that haunts all Bug dreams.

Ann Aguirre

#24. Humph,' he said, with a disagreeable air, 'the universe does its work very quietly.' ("The Bogey Man")

A.E. Coppard

#25. Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own.

Caroline Kennedy

#26. Yeah, size is no guarantee of power," said George. "Look at Ginny."
"What d'you mean?" said Harry.
"You've never been on the receiving end of one of her Bat-Bogey Hexes, have you?

J.K. Rowling

#27. We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.

Carl Levin

#28. Beware of putting all your focus into results. While results are important, your people should be your number one area of focus.

Ken Blanchard

#29. The transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement between the two the whole fortune of his works depend.

Virginia Woolf

#30. As students of the silver screen recall, Bogart's admonition about future regret led Bergman to board the plane and fly away with her husband. Had she stayed with Bogey in Casablanca, she would probably have felt just fine. Not right away, perhaps, but soon, and for the rest of her life.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#31. If golfers can run around and crow when they make a birdie, I think it would be just as proper to lie down on the green and cry when you make a bogey.

J. C. Snead

#32. The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

Rebecca West

#33. A winkle is just a bogey with a crash helmet on.

Mick Miller

#34. I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.

Don McLean

#35. Imagination is destination.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#36. If I make a bogey or three putt I'm on fire inside. But it's not like you're going to play any better slamming your club or getting angry. So you might as well just keep it in. People say I'm pretty calm, but I do make mistakes and I do get angry, but I try and not show it.

Lydia Ko

#37. 1945-1990 - Russophobia
1990-2015 - Islamophobia
2015- ?? - Russophobia AND Islamophobia.
Isnt it time the MI Complex created a new bogey-man?

Arindam Mukherjee

#38. As every golfer knows, no one ever lost his mind over one shot. It is rather the gradual process of shot after shot watching your score go to tatters - knowing that you have found a different way to bogey each hole.

Thomas Boswell

#39. He was my favourite possession, and I didn't feel right if I couldn't get hold of him. He was warm, hard to do without, and I wanted to drag him around with me everywhere I went. The most comfortable blanket in the world, right next to my skin, that was Bogey.

Rika Yokomori

#40. This is the South and we have our own ways of doing things down here. We're not going to sit back in silence while people like Wiley ram their homosexuality down our throats."
"God knows I ain't about to put my homosexuality in your mouth, Billy," I said.

Nick Wilgus

#41. My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

Rudolph A. Marcus

#42. When I rule the world," screamed the Bogey, "all antiques will be destroyed! Antiques will be things of the past!

Mark Gorton

#43. The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.

Bobby Jones

#44. All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.

Lou Holtz