Quotes of: Bogey Keyword

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 provide...

Tremendous Trifles

At the U.S. Open, you're going to make bogeys.

David Duval

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

Lou Holtz

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

Joe Hill

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

Justin Timberlake

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

Others wonder, if the Bogey isn’t wearing his pants, who is?

May Bird Among the Stars

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

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

Dusky Ruth: And Other Stories

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.

Necessary Errors

Watching the Commons tribute to Margaret Thatcher was like being suffocated inside a gigantic sticky toffee pudding, but one with nasty bogeys planted inside. There was much of the 'Margaret Thatcher who was lucky enough to know me,' especially from ...

Simon Hoggart

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.

Help: The Original Human Dilemma

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, b...

Stumbling on Happiness

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, bu...

Lydia Ko

Susan's gotta poker, you know," it said, as if anxious to be helpful. WELL, WELL. INDEED. MY GOODNESS ME. "I fort- all of you knew that now. Larst- week she picked up a bogey by its nose." Death tried to imagine this. He felt sure he'd heard the sent...

Terry Pratchett

O, sir,' murmured Sheila, still on her knees, 'please forgive me.' 'Forgive you! 0, la, la, la!' cunningly cried the droll, and strutting like an actor. 'Forgiveness is easy, is it not? O, yes, it is nothing. You are a young woman full of pride. O. y...

Dusky Ruth: And Other Stories

My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the real life and not of the little separate lives which we live as individuals — and have five hundred a year each of us and rooms of our own; if we ha...

A Room of One's Own