Quotes of: Poster-boy Keyword

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

George Bernard Shaw

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

Garry Wills

I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.

Garry Wills

I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.

Haile Gebrselassie

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

Hugh Laurie

Success is a relative thing―and the victory of a boy at marbles is equal to the victory of an Octavius at Actium when measured by the scale of cosmic infinity.

H.P. Lovecraft

I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.

Joel McHale

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.

John Mahoney

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'

James Naismith

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

James Harvey Robinson

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