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Letter "B" » boys
«She's somebody's mother, boys, you know For all she's aged and poor and slow»
«Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a lesbian.»
Author: Fran Lebowitz
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Humorist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
archaic,
boys,
conclusion,
happen upon,
jump,
ladies,
Lesbian,
lesbians,
put out,
The Conclusion,
tramp,
tramped,
tramps,
usage
«I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs.... because they have the most to hide. The guys that are in the most pain are usually the ones with the biggest hearts.»
Author: Tori Amos
(
Singer)
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About:
Music,
Pain,
Singers and singing
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Keywords:
biggest,
Big Boys,
boys,
Good Boy,
good guy,
Good Stuff,
guys,
hide,
one of the boys,
screaming,
songs,
stuff,
The Boys
«I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street.»
«I've a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind . . . you behave yourself !»
«If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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About:
Books,
Reading,
Writing
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Keywords:
boys,
Boys Will Be Boys,
cabin,
cabins,
coyote,
coyotes,
snow,
The Boys,
The Cabin,
yip
«In some places it's known as a tornado. In others, a cyclone. And in still others, the Idiot's Merry-go-round. But around here they'll always be known as screw-boys.»
Author: Jack Handy
(
Writer)
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Keywords:
boys,
cyclone,
idiot,
known as,
merry-go-round,
merry,
Others The,
round,
screw,
The Idiot,
tornado,
tornadoes
«I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
accomplishes,
attractions,
awakening,
awakenings,
boys,
compulsion,
elective,
instructor,
instructors,
marking,
opening,
professor,
pupils,
put on,
scholarship,
schools,
school system,
studies,
The Attractions,
ungracious
«He who was first an acolyte, and afterwards an abbot or curate, knows what the boys do behind the altar»
«Money, horse racing and women, three things the boys just can't figure out.»