Quotes of: Boy-scout Keyword

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

James Harvey Robinson

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

James Harvey Robinson

Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.

John Shelton Reed

A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.

Jerry Saltz

Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.

Jerry Saltz

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

Jerry Saltz

I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform.

John Stamos

As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!

John Sununu

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

John Robert Seeley

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

James Thurber

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

John Thorn

Sometimes, you'll watch the news and you'll see two-year-old boys in South Africa, wearing 'Spider-Man' t-shirts. It's such a global phenomenon.

James Vanderbilt

I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.

Dan Brown

Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.'

Douglas Brinkley

I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.

David Herbert Donald

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

David Herbert Donald

When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch until about 8 o'clock at night; that's when it started getting dark. That was it.

Daisy Fuentes

I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.

Drew Gilpin Faust

When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'

Dick Gregory

I've always had the hair of Lionel Ritchie since I was a boy, but the mullet sadly is a hairpiece. My wife won't let me rock that hairstyle.

Danny McBride

I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.

Diego Maradona