That One Special Boy Quotes

#1. Leigh Bowery was actually quoted as saying, "Flesh is my most favorite fabric." I've seen many a freak make a scene and go, but Leigh was a special kind of exhibitionist because he was dedicated and saw it as an art form.

Boy George

#2. There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#3. I know space is supposed to make me feel small and insignificant, but somehow it doesn't. What it makes me feel is special: I'm here, despite a million odds, in this moment, in this single point in time, with a boy I'm so completely in love with.

Suki Fleet

#4. I needed to get familiar with sex, and it would be just as well to practise first with a boy I didn't care about too much. Then later on, if I was with someone special, I'd have more chance of doing everything right.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#5. Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals.

Ingrid Newkirk

#6. It's well known by now that I had a special need to get Maureen's goat when ever the opportunity presented itself. I was a boy and she was the enemy ... a girl.

Christopher Knight

#7. I couldn't see well enough to play (baseball) when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they made me an umpire.

Harry S. Truman

#8. And the boys made fun of her skinny legs that were always bruised and cut from her tomboyish antics at the ranch. There was one special boy, Jake Weldon. Maggie pretended not to notice him. He was one of the boys who made fun of her, and it hurt really

Diana Palmer

#9. We can also express it like this: the difficulties, which this boy has with himself as well as with his relationship to the world, are the price he has to pay for his special gifts. (Asperger 1938, p.2)

Tony Attwood

#10. After a minute a willowy woman with a baby boy came out. The baby was swinging a crystal from a string. I checked to see if he and I had a special connection that was greater than his bond with his mother. We didn't.

Miranda July

#11. I had my first kiss under a tree near the school. It was with a boy named Michael who rarely spoke, but he would sometimes give me one of the cookies from his lunch. Maybe it was the gifts that made me feel special? I don't know, but when our lips touched, it felt magical.

Paula Abdul

#12. Sawyer was always the Vincent boy worth fighting for. He's the special one.

Abbi Glines

#13. She kissed her teenage fantasy, the popular boy she used to dream would see something special in her and love her forever. The man kissed her back.

Ophelia London

#14. A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood.

Arthur Capper

#15. How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?

Sting

#16. This little boy is five years old, and big trees he loved to climb! His special name is Terry

Tali Carmi

#17. Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special about them - the noise, the smell, the steam coming out everywhere.

Michael Bond

#18. 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

#19. From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

Donald Kagan

#20. As a boy, it was clear that my inclinations were toward the physical sciences. Mathematics, mechanics, and chemistry were among the fields that gave me a special satisfaction.

Ahmed Zewail

#21. The skies make no special dispensation for Magi, boy, they piss on everyone the same.

Joe Abercrombie

#22. I know girls want what they can't have, and they want to be the special exception responsible for taming the boy no one else can, even though they probably won't be.

Gena Showalter

#23. When the boy asked him if this knowledge were a special knowledge only to the blind the blind man said that it was not. He said that most men were in their lives like the carpenter whose work went so slowly for the dullness of his tools that he had no time to sharpen them.

Cormac McCarthy

#24. A boy who could make his mother feel special inspite of his own ordeals is the boon from God in lieu of some good deed.

Adhish Mazumder

#25. I'm so thrilled to have been asked to guest in the Doctor Who Christmas Special, I'm such a fan of the show. The read-through was very difficult for me; I wanted to keep stuffing my fingers into my ears and scream 'No spoilers!' Every day on set I've had to silence my internal fan-boy squeals!

Nick Frost

#26. A baby boy has a special way of brining out the man in his father and the little boy in his grandfather.

Tanya Masse

#27. I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the number of game animals and the need to adjust the cull to the size of the surplus population.

Prince Philip

#28. The wrong boy will bore you or annoy you," Mom said. "But the right one? He'll make you laugh, make you feel special.

Jenny B. Jones

#29. When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books have held special places in my heart all my life.

Mike Greenberg

#30. I love everything special or unique. Sometimes I love girly clothes, sometimes I love strong boy looks. You never know what is the next look of Ming.

Ming Xi

#31. No boy ever makes you special. You just are. Understand?

Heather Davis

#32. I'll see you tomorrow night."
Be ready," he said. "I'll have something special planned."
"I thought you didn't make plans."
"You're an exception to my rules, Monica Campbell.

Terri L. Austin

#33. I'm not commercial, I'm not for Special K cereal and I'm not a Wheaties boy; I'm a little bit more avant-garde, a little bit more out there.

Johnny Weir