Good Lad Quotes

#1. To begin with, working class people reacted against our openness about sex. They are frightened of nudity, they're repressed in that way as well as others. Perhaps they thought 'Paul [McCartney] is a good lad, he doesn't make trouble'.

John Lennon

#2. Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin' me lawn and killin' what Brits come around.

Kevin Hearne

#3. Do I think I'm a national treasure? I don't see why not? I don't see why I shouldn't be. I'm a good lad, really.

Robbie Williams

#4. By the time she'd finished with him, with a little encouraging pat and a request that he rest quiet like a good lad, there was no point in denying it: Holly Evernight would be the death of him.

Kristen Callihan

#5. Good lad. You did well, Spook. I'm proud.

Brandon Sanderson

#6. I ain't going to kiss ye, poppet. Just keep still like a good little lad.

Bey Deckard

#7. I really kind of pride myself on figuring stuff out pretty quickly but I couldn't, couldn't. I just had no idea.

Jennifer Aniston

#8. That bit where that lad sprang backwards right across the room with them axes in his hands was impressive, though."
"Yeah."
"You didn't ought to have stuck your sword out like that, I thought."
"He's learned an important lesson."
"It won't do him much good now where he's gone.

Terry Pratchett

#9. Okay, maybe I'm not cooler than you, but I felt like I was for a second. Just let me have my moment!

Eric Halvorsen

#10. I couldn't wait to meet his cherry-popping, cougar pimp landlady again. Said no one ever.

Linda Kage

#11. I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet.

Walter Cronkite

#12. Everyone's thinking these days. I think there's a good deal too much of this thinking, that's what I think. We never thought about thinking when I was a lad. We'd never get anything done if we thought first.

Terry Pratchett

#13. The Heart Gallery premise is very simple. It is a special traveling exhibit of photographs featuring Los Angeles foster youth, designed to highlight the need to find loving adoptive families for waiting children.

Angela Featherstone

#14. Courage for the big troubles in life, lad' he'd say, 'and patience for the small. Be of good cheer. God is awake.

Louisa Young

#15. I've been called many things in my time, but never a conduit of divinity- Cedric MacKinnon, My Fearful Symmetry

Denise Verrico

#16. I never saw a lad, page or prince, so eager to learn to do a thing right.

Gail Carson Levine

#17. When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

Baron D'Holbach

#18. Yes, a good swipe at head height would kill ... some mother's son, some sister's brother, some lad who'd followed the drum for a shilling and his first new suit. If only he'd been trained, if only she'd had a few weeks stabbing straw men until she could believe that all men were made of straw.

Terry Pratchett

#19. Story affirms that not everything in the universe can or must be explained propositionally; the loose ends of story aren't always neatly tied together, because neither are the loose ends of our lives. "Life can bear only so much reality," says poet and pastor Calvin Miller.

Sarah Arthur

#20. It's a crazy - crazy - amount of talent on 'Smash.'

Julian Ovenden

#21. Above all mediums, through which storytelling is conveyed, none has the potential to draw us in, to hold us spellbound, but the unassuming book.

Diana Jane Heath

#22. Good God, the lad is a lass!

Margaret Mallory

#23. Intrinsically, I'm the same person I was as a young lad, and I think I still have the optimism of life, still the same wants and desires to be good and great about what I do.

Pierce Brosnan

#24. The key to having good scales is a healthy diet of venison when you're just a wee dragon lad.

Sully Tarnish

#25. A rock is a good thing, too, you know. If the Isles of Earthsea were all made of diamond, we'd lead a hard life here. Enjoy the illusions, lad, and let the rocks be rocks.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#26. You know, all the evil in the world, all the sadness comes from not having a good answer to that question: What do I do next? You just keep thinking of good things to do, lad. You'll be all right. We'll all be all right. I wanted you to know that.

Geoff Ryman

#27. For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction.

Regina Doman

#28. Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and 'play the game,' and these are the best of training for any game of life.

Robert Baden-Powell

#29. We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

J.J. Abrams

#30. A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Emily Bronte

#31. Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

Jules Verne

#32. If you hurt her any more than you already have, the wound could be too deep to fix.

Haruki Murakami