It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humo...
T. C. BOYLE I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
T. C. BOYLE I'm not looking ahead joyfully to the rest of my life or the future of the human race. I've ...
T. C. BOYLE I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy...
T. C. BOYLE Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other p...
T. C. BOYLE Now that we all live in a bad '70s sci-fi movie, I am made to understand the tyranny of the mach...
T. C. BOYLE I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that&...
T. C. BOYLE I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to e...
T. C. BOYLE What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
T. C. BOYLE It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and ...
T. C. BOYLE The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty hum...
T. C. BOYLE I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
T. C. BOYLE Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that peo...
T. C. BOYLE What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?
T. C. BOYLE Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.
T. C. BOYLE I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe...
T. C. BOYLE This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
T. C. BOYLE I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seem...
T. C. BOYLE Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.
T. C. BOYLE In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and cu...
T. C. BOYLE The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced.
T. C. BOYLE I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants...
T. C. BOYLE It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time a...
T. C. BOYLE As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.
T. C. BOYLE I think the best endings bring you back in rather than close things off with absolute finality. I...
T. C. BOYLE Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny.
T. C. BOYLE The beauty of American law is you cannot slander anybody who is dead. This is not true in all countr...
T. C. BOYLE I never go anywhere without a book for fear of being stuck in line in front of the theater or strapp...
T. C. BOYLE Man is the principal syllable in Management.
C. T. MCKENZIE If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.
C. T. STUDD Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650 I belong to the "G...
C. T. STUDD Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop ...
C. T. STUDD Concluding a short series on prayer We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the ga...
C. T. STUDD A lost reputation is the best degree for Christ's service.
C. T. STUDD When we are in hand-to-hand conflict with the world, the flesh, and the devil himself, neat little B...
C. T. STUDD Christ's call is to save the lost, not the stiff-necked; He came not to call scoffers but sinners to...
C. T. STUDD Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in ...
C. T. STUDD The Liberals talk about a stable government but we don't know how bad the stable is going to smell.
T. C. DOUGLAS If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.
C T STUDD Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.
GREG BOYLE Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in...
BOYLE ROCHE We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames th...
HAL BOYLE Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
HAL BOYLE What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where ...
HAL BOYLE I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean...
DANNY BOYLE What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it...
HAL BOYLE What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get wh...
HAL BOYLE Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.
DANNY BOYLE Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.
GREG BOYLE The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as...
ROBERT BOYLE That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful tha...
DANNY BOYLE For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could...
FRANKIE BOYLE Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.
DANNY BOYLE Given an area of law that legislators were happy to hand over to the affected industries and a techn...
JAMES BOYLE I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine.
GREG BOYLE And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, thi...
ROBERT BOYLE Homeboy Bakery is an alternative to kids who have found themselves, regrettably, in gangs and want t...
GREG BOYLE It is a great honor to be awarded a Nobel Prize. This is a wonderful experience for my wife Betty an...
WILLARD BOYLE You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: ki...
GREG BOYLE The phaenomena afforded by trades, are a part of the history of nature, and therefore may both chall...
ROBERT BOYLE I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off ...
SUSAN BOYLE I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let ...
SUSAN BOYLE In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is...
GREG BOYLE Being a resident of the city and spending most of my time in the city, I've always been perplexed wi...
BRIAN BOYLE I moved out to give Brock an option. I had my back to the net, so I just shot it to an area.
BRIAN BOYLE He was back to his old form.
BRIAN BOYLE It's obviously a big game. There is just a little more incentive for me because I went there for a y...
BRIAN BOYLE He [Bishop] played a tremendous game for them.
BRIAN BOYLE I cheated a little and spit some out on the table because I was going to throw up.
BRIAN BOYLE I wish I could give you an answer.
BRIAN BOYLE I just looked at myself in the mirror and said, 'This isn't the player I am. I need to do better, .....
BRIAN BOYLE The Monmouth-Ocean area is . . . always in the best-areas-to-live (lists),
BRIAN BOYLE I'm not sure what can be told to them.
BRIAN BOYLE I guess it helps to keep busy.
BOB BOYLE You used to look out this front window and there was nothing but woods and fields between here and N...
BOB BOYLE It (winning the tournament) was great for the fans; everybody had a lot of fun.
BOB BOYLE Denny Baker had been a starter but he broke his leg. It was during a game; he came down on it wrong....
BOB BOYLE Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.
BOYLE ROCHE The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
BOYLE ROCHE How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?
BOYLE ROCHE Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.
BOYLE ROCHE We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.
BOYLE ROCHE Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever...
BOYLE ROCHE I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic "No."
BOYLE ROCHE While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.
BOYLE ROCHE Every pint bottle should contain a quart.
BOYLE ROCHE We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.
GREG BOYLE Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with the 'demonized' so that the demonizing will stop...
GREG BOYLE My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that'...
GREG BOYLE If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fi...
GREG BOYLE I hope they will come back and just focus on solving the problems of how to pay for our schools and ...
CAROLYN BOYLE People are glad that there's going to be a change.
CAROLYN BOYLE If it's all about money, if our entire Texas Legislature is just kind of up for bid to who can put t...
CAROLYN BOYLE There were many tie votes in the Texas House in 2005 on critical education bills, so a new Austin le...
CAROLYN BOYLE School boards have to work together, so they're used to bringing all opinions to the table and tryin...
CAROLYN BOYLE We learned that if you organize at the grass roots, you can beat the big boys.
CAROLYN BOYLE Just a flood of money turned the tide for some people who probably were close to being beat.
CAROLYN BOYLE Most employers just aren't willing to look beyond the dumbest or worst thing someone has done.
GREG BOYLE He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states o...
ROBERT BOYLE Her bark is really worse than her bite. So you know, she's very effective at barking.
TIM BOYLE Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as fl...
DANNY BOYLE The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.
GREG BOYLE The arms of God reach to embrace, and somehow you feel yourself just outside God's fingertips.
GREG BOYLE It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.
DANNY BOYLE That's an awful call; he didn't fall because of me. Some of those penalties were very, very question...
DAN BOYLE I always have a funny story at communion time that underscores that no one is perfect, and that comm...
GREG BOYLE All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
BOYLE ROCHE Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, ...
GREG BOYLE Even gang members imagine a future that doesn't include gangs.
GREG BOYLE A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I l...
DANNY BOYLE When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can't hold it. The bes...
GREG BOYLE Lester Germer was my first supervisor at Bell Labs. He was the Germer of the Davisson and Germer Exp...
WILLARD BOYLE At its best, an injunction creates a kind of vigilant heat that moves kids toward the light.
GREG BOYLE I found that my career at Bell Telephone Labs thrived because of the environment, which encouraged c...
WILLARD BOYLE My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a di...
DANNY BOYLE The embassy has confirmed at least trace amounts of anthrax in one of the five mailbags
MICHAEL BOYLE Overall, the market does not like indecision.
PATRICK BOYLE When FCC starting gun goes off on Monday and indeed (joint ownership) is allowed in the top 100 mark...
JIM BOYLE When FCC starting gun goes off on Monday and indeed (joint ownership) is allowed in the top 100 mark...
JIM BOYLE I kinda don't do guilt. I gave it up for Lent years ago.
GREG BOYLE I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as m...
GREG BOYLE Barack Obama will appeal to both black and white voters in America. White voters who'll think he's T...
FRANKIE BOYLE What if we ceased to pledge our allegiance to the bottom line and stood, instead, with those who lin...
GREGORY BOYLE Human beings are settlers, but not in the pioneer sense. It is our human occupational hazard to sett...
GREGORY BOYLE I want them to be excited about being there, but not satisfied. It's like what (athletic director) S...
JOANNE BOYLE Well, I have had so many wake-up calls, but finally you wake up. I finally woke up.
PETER BOYLE Kohl's exclusive Daisy Fuentes brand has become a favorite of our customers with its contemporary st...
JACK BOYLE At Kohl's, our objective is to provide great fashions to our customers to help transform the way the...
JACK BOYLE Our first priority was to get all of the students' equipment out of there, as much as we could, for ...
JACK BOYLE The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
BOYLE ROCHE It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It...
DANNY BOYLE Mr. St. Maur will help me make a most excellent match. Perhaps you should retain him as well."
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ELIZABETH BOYLE being sick feels like you're wearing someone else's glasses
MEGAN BOYLE I don't save people. God saves people. I can point them in the right direction. I can say, '...
GREG BOYLE We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the ...
WILLARD BOYLE Jesus did not only serve the needs of the people, but truly hoped that the people and Jesus would be...
GREG BOYLE The parts of the metropolitan area are so interdependent, in so many ways, that nobody is being help...
KEVIN BOYLE I don't see much difference between it and the other films though I can see on a rational and intell...
DANNY BOYLE Just kind of waiting out to hear the locals' chatter, rather than wait to hear everything from the p...
KEVIN BOYLE I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic 'No.'
BOYLE ROCHE It was a terrible call. At that point of the game, I just lifted the guy's stick (Patrick Eaves) and...
DAN BOYLE We've had such a tremendous year and we want to put some icing on that cake.
ERIC BOYLE Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 The gosp...
ROBERT BOYLE We'd like to stabilize the taxpayer subsidy which you know has risen over the past ten years, ideall...
DAN BOYLE We can spend it on spay and neuter, we can spend it on the general fund, or second chance. Now that ...
LISA BOYLE I have absolutely no hang-ups about modeling nude. I think if the pictures are really tasteful and c...
LISA BOYLE I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for m...
KAY BOYLE sort of to reintroduce life into the country, ... So that's the premise of it. It's got a good idea ...
DANNY BOYLE The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.
BOYLE ROCHE At present there are such goings-on that everything is at a standstill.
BOYLE ROCHE i wish cats could float around your head
MEGAN BOYLE i wish i had 15-20 cats that would serve as a blanket, like if i moved they would adjust to my new p...
MEGAN BOYLE It won't be the people who were in the first one, They're too busy. Naomie Harris is doing [the sequ...
DANNY BOYLE I likened my arrival to Paris as a pilgrimage.
KAY BOYLE Brian is a fabulous player, a tough kid and a very good passer. I've seen him grow stronger and toug...
KEVIN BOYLE Something was comforting about strangers—it seemed like they would exist forever as the same, unkn...
MEGAN BOYLE Whatever happened to that old-fashioned Grandpa? If he still survives, he must be hiding in the smal...
HAL BOYLE Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ...
HAL BOYLE We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the hu...
HAL BOYLE I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I j...
HAL BOYLE Does Grandpa love to babysit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormon...
HAL BOYLE Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
HAL BOYLE It was then that my gaze happened to fall on the bookcase, on the gap there, where the old paperback...
T.C. BOYLE Even though one of them is about an Edinburgh junkie and one's a little boy of eight in Manchester, ...
DANNY BOYLE With the acquisition of Pacific Trail, we continue to strengthen our portfolio of authentic, outdoor...
TIM BOYLE My assistant told me to keep my composure, but I hadn't said anything all game and I wanted them to ...
ERIC BOYLE Earning money from, and supporting, a system that keeps these people in poverty in the first place a...
MARK BOYLE Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.
T.C. BOYLE Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming.
PETER BOYLE The history of patents includes a wealth of attempts to reward friends of the government and restric...
JAMES BOYLE To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. Peopl...
DANNY BOYLE Although it's just one point we gained on them, it's better than none or losing one. Hopefully this ...
DAN BOYLE people like to see will smith reacting to aliens
MEGAN BOYLE I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: l...
T.C. BOYLE Businesses have come and gone at Homeboy Industries. We have had starts and stops, but anything wort...
GREG BOYLE To all my enemies, I will destroy you.
FRANKIE BOYLE To all my enemies, I will destroy it.
FRANKIE BOYLE If our primary concern is results, we will choose to work only with those who give us good ones.
GREGORY BOYLE God seems to be an unwilling participant in our efforts to pigeonhole Him.
GREG BOYLE There aren't the types of resources to rebuild this city in the billions of dollars. I don't know th...
KIM BOYLE Those distinct substances, which concretes generally either afford, or are made up of, may, without ...
ROBERT BOYLE You are so much more than the worst thing you've ever done.
GREG BOYLE I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower.
SUSAN BOYLE I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.
DANNY BOYLE I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about the...
DANNY BOYLE It's going to be a shared space. Our primary data centers in San Jose and Sterling, Virginia are NTT...
DENNIS BOYLE Once you kind of end the money chase, elected officials are far less susceptible to some of the attr...
MARY BOYLE We played three great quarters and forgot to finish the fourth quarter, and on Monday we turned in o...
ERIC BOYLE After the game I told the kids to laugh it up, but Monday a whole new season starts with a lot of ex...
ERIC BOYLE You can't take a night off in the CIML. This is what happens.
ERIC BOYLE That last 5 minutes in the game, we're going to need to get that into a bottle and drink from it the...
ERIC BOYLE Thank goodness this isn't the end of February.
ERIC BOYLE I thought that was the biggest swing.
ERIC BOYLE When you're offense is based around her, it's hard to get the looks you want. I thought our kids did...
ERIC BOYLE We called for the intentional foul but they couldn't hear us. Thirty seconds go by and we pretty muc...
ERIC BOYLE We could get attorney's fees, and my value is $300 per hour. The longer the case goes on, the greate...
ELIZABETH BOYLE My opinion is that if tenants have six months left on their leases, the management company should pa...
ELIZABETH BOYLE Our theory is that the owners have to give tenants 60 days' notice before the end of an annual term ...
ELIZABETH BOYLE I can't say anything about it because I haven't seen it. I don't think Michael has seen it yet eithe...
BRIDGET BOYLE They were just trying to figure out, as I have done for the last year and a half, who did what to Ju...
BRIDGET BOYLE