Sometimes I Wish I Was A Boy Quotes

#1. I can't take any more white boys noodling around on their guitars.

Gene Ween

#2. She dumped me for the quarterback after she'd played my body like a banjo. So Sad."
"I bet"
"I'm serious. I was heartbroken."
"For how long?"
"A whole week." An eternity in the life of a teenage boy.

Nalini Singh

#3. I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles
champions every one.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. I was always being called upon to be an honorary boy alongside my brothers. I don't think I'd be a comic now if it hadn't been for that.

Jo Brand

#5. Age, like wealth is but a mental abstraction, my boy"~ Herr Doktor Pavel

K.W. Jeter

#6. As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.

Sue Monk Kidd

#7. I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.

Cokie Roberts

#8. But [Patrick's] character is partly based on a boy named Mark who lived across the street from me when I was growing up ... I liked hanging out with him and was sad when he moved away after only a year in the neighborhood. I guess writing about Patrick is a way for me to spend more time with Mark.

Linda Sue Park

#9. I was a Knicks fan of the Kenny Sears-Carl Braun-Jim Baechtold vintage. I was even their ball boy when I was a teenager.

Marv Albert

#10. I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

Beverly Cleary

#11. Don't put your wand there, boy! What if it ignited? Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know."
"Who d'you know who's lost a buttock?"
"Never you mind ...

J.K. Rowling

#12. The bad boy: always more fun.

Ian McShane

#13. I was always watching the boys and how they interacted. It comes with being a feminist, just somebody who thinks a lot about gender and how it plays out in society.

Lynn Coady

#14. Always live the adventure.

Christopher J. Holcroft

#15. Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, with all appliances and means to boot, deny it to a king?

William Shakespeare

#16. The Boy should watch where he's going," she
said.
"Rachel should not manifest in doorways," I
replied.

Maggie Stiefvater

#17. An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot of the time it's easy for casting directors to just stick me in as a bad boy, but 'Being Human' took a risk on me - bless 'em - and I'm not that bad boy no more.

Michael Socha

#18. Sleep is a prison for a boy who has friends to meet.

Michael Ondaatje

#19. Boy, it's a tough planet if you want it to be. But a great planet if you let it.

Gary Busey

#20. Humans without humanity, A world of dread and fear for eternity.

Mouloud Benzadi

#21. When boys and girls go out to play there is always someone left behind, and the boy who is left behind is no use to the girl who is left behind.

Paul Potts

#22. My friends call me Wrath," says Raffe. "My enemies call me Please Have Mercy. What's your name, soldier boy?

Susan Ee

#23. Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.

Baden Powell De Aquino

#24. It is well to be attentive to successive ambitions that flood the growing boy's and girl's imagination. They leave profound traces behind them. During those years when the first sap is rising the future tree is foreshadowing its contour. We are shaped by the promises of imagination.

Thornton Wilder

#25. My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on doing those myself.

William Shatner

#26. Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.

Shel Silverstein

#27. A brigand, a barber, a beggar, two orphans, and a boy whore. With such do we defend the realms of men.

George R R Martin

#28. Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

Nicole Krauss

#29. Julian gave his brother a slow, sweet smile. In that smile was all the love and wonder of the little boy who'd lost his brother and against all odds, gotten him back.

Cassandra Clare

#30. I'm not a freak. That's a horrible thing to say."
"That's where you're going. A special school for freaks. You and that Snape boy ... weirdos, that's what you two are ... "
"You didn't think it was such a freak's school when you wrote the headmaster and begged him to take you.

J.K. Rowling