Quotes about Girls
by Futurescopes Research Team
- I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at. - Jensen Ackles, Actor
01-Mar-1978
- I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage. - Kate Adie, Journalist
19-Sep-1945
- I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing. - Christina Aguilera, Musician
18-Dec-1980
- I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head. - Alvin Ailey, Dancer
05-Jan-1931 - 01-Dec-1989
- I've always felt so different from how I look. I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?' - Malin Akerman, Actress
12-May-1978
- Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it. - Louisa May Alcott, Novelist
29-Nov-1832 - 06-Mar-1888
- What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles? - Louisa May Alcott, Novelist
29-Nov-1832 - 06-Mar-1888
- If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path. - Marty Allen, Comedian
23-Mar-1922
- What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close. - Tori Amos, Musician
22-Aug-1963
- I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls. - Richard Dean Anderson, Actor
23-Jan-1950
- Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. - Maya Angelou, Poet
04-Apr-1928
- Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work. - Susan B. Anthony, Activist
15-Feb-1820 - 13-Mar-1906
- There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles. - Mary Antin, Activist
24-Feb-1909 - 15-May-1949
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. - Hannah Arendt, Historian
14-Oct-1906 - 04-Dec-1975
- Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors. - Dario Argento, Director
07-Sep-1940
- Men want girls. Most men want little girls. They want them in film. They want to look at them. That's all they want. An evolved man is not going to look that way. - Rosanna Arquette, Actress
10-Aug-1959
- Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile! - Peter Asher, Musician
02-Jun-1944
- Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being. - Jane Austen, Writer
16-Dec-1775 - 28-Jul-1817
- I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls. - Burt Bacharach, Composer
12-May-1928
- I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked. - David Bailey, Photographer
02-Jan-1938
- It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. - Tallulah Bankhead, Actress
31-Jan-1903 - 12-Dec-1968
- Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time. - Tallulah Bankhead, Actress
31-Jan-1903 - 12-Dec-1968
- You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights. - Bob Barker, Actor
12-Dec-1923
- Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls. - Bruce Barton, Author
05-Aug-1886 - 05-Jul-1967
- Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks. - Alison Bechdel, Cartoonist
10-Sep-1960
- If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls! - Boris Becker, Athlete
22-Nov-1967
- Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis. - Boris Becker, Athlete
22-Nov-1967
- There's room for boys' and girls' football in the world-that's what I believe. - David Beckham, Athlete
02-May-1975
- I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls. - Kate Beckinsale, Actress
26-Jul-1973
- I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I've had quite a few people actually say that they're going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me... the character. I think that's pretty cool! - Catherine Bell, Model
14-Aug-1968
- When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys. - Catherine Bell, Model
14-Aug-1968
- I think it's great that she's not perfect and wasn't perfect. I think that's maybe why so many young girls and different people look up to Mac and respect her even more. - Catherine Bell, Model
14-Aug-1968
- I've got more junk in the trunk than most 5-foot-1 blonde girls, and I like it. - Kristen Bell, Actress
18-Jul-1980
- I've got more junk in the trunk than most 5-foot-1 blonde girls, and I like it. - Kristen Bell, Actress
18-Jul-1980
- All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy. - Kristen Bell, Actress
18-Jul-1980
- All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy. - Kristen Bell, Actress
18-Jul-1980
- By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions - and that happened in my school too. - Annette Bening, Actress
29-May-1958
- Guys aren't threatening. Other girls are the competition. You are usually what they're fighting over. - Jonathan Bennett, Philosopher
- Girls aren't mean to guys in high school. They are mean to each other. Girls were never mean to me. - Jonathan Bennett, Philosopher
- I still have horrible luck with girls. - Jonathan Bennett, Philosopher
- A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I've got to pay for that being an income tax payer. - Jeffrey Bernard, Journalist
27-May-1932 - 04-Sep-1997
- The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started gett - Justin Bieber, Musician
01-Mar-1994
- Cheryl Cole and Katy Perry are two of the hottest girls in the world - and so normal and funny with it. If I was a few years older they are the kind of girls I'd like to date. I want a younger version of Cheryl and Katy - a mixture of the two would be hot - Justin Bieber, Musician
01-Mar-1994
- But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls' point of view, I've heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well. - Jason Biggs, Actor
12-May-1978
- My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet - especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult. - Jason Biggs, Actor
12-May-1978
- Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much. - Jimmy Carl Black, Musician
01-Feb-1938
- A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time. - Alexis Bledel, Actress
16-Sep-1981
- When I'm out with my girlfriends at the bar, and I see some young 18-year old boy, just for fun I say, 'Hi honey. Do you like girls? Do you like girls exclusively? Oh, good.' - Yasmine Bleeth, Actress
14-Jun-1968
- I like outgoing girls with a lovely smile and beautiful eyes. - Corbin Bleu, Actor
21-Feb-1989
- A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though. - Orlando Bloom, Actor
13-Jan-1977
- On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned. - Lionel Blue, Clergyman
06-Feb-1930
- That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls. - Simon Le Bon, Musician
27-Oct-1958
- We were five heterosexual, good-looking men. We competed against each other for the sexiest girls... I won. - Simon Le Bon, Musician
27-Oct-1958
- A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk. - Lisa Bonet, Actress
16-Nov-1967
- Girls Incorporated of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey continues to advance their cause and to strengthen their community by aspiring to open a Girl's Center for Philadelphia. - Robert Brady, Politician
07-Apr-1945
- I like strong girls, as long as they don't get snappish. And furthermore I think it important that you are good buddies and she does not get angry when you don't have your day. - Jonathan Brandis, Actor
13-Apr-1976 - 12-Nov-2003
- I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge. - Susie Bright, Writer
25-Mar-1958
- Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows. - Adam Brody, Actor
15-Dec-1979
- Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter. - Louise Brooks, Actress
14-Nov-1906 - 08-Aug-1985
- PENTHOUSE didn't seem to concentrate as much on the girls' faces, and I really wanted to see the girls' faces. It seems like through the 1980's, they almost went out of their way to obscure the girls' faces. - Chester Brown, Cartoonist
16-May-1960
- I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me. - Chris Brown, Musician
05-May-1989
- I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But also be a girl who isn't afraid to get sweaty and play basketball, so it's cool if she's a tomboy. - Chris Brown, Musician
05-May-1989
- I love attention. If I see a gang of girls? That makes me dance even more! - Chris Brown, Musician
05-May-1989
- Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man. - Chris Brown, Musician
05-May-1989
- I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls. - Chris Brown, Musician
05-May-1989
- Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere. - Helen Gurley Brown, Editor
18-Feb-1922
- Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls. - Louise Brown, Celebrity
25-Jul-1978
- It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print. - Louise Brown, Celebrity
25-Jul-1978
- The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers. - Louise Brown, Celebrity
25-Jul-1978
- Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet
06-Mar-1806 - 29-Jun-1861
- You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls. - Robert Browning, Poet
07-May-1812 - 12-Dec-1889
- Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb. - Yul Brynner, Actor
11-Jul-1915 - 10-Oct-1985
- I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices. - Betty Buckley, Actress
03-Jul-1947
- It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in it. It was great. - Gisele Bundchen, Model
20-Jul-1980
- I want to find a way to reach young women emotionally and also to start providing clothing for them so that they can wear the same things their thin friends can wear. I really want to do evening wear and prom dresses for these girls. - Delta Burke, Actress
30-Jul-1956
- I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me. - Carol Burnett, Actress
26-Apr-1933
- They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls. - Laura Bush, First Lady
04-Nov-1946
- My friends and I are collecting prom dresses to give to girls who can't afford them for their proms. - Lauren Bush, Model
25-Jun-1984
- Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks. - Sophia Bush, Actress
08-Jul-1982
- Around 7 years old, we girls took dancing lessons, joined the Brownies, the Girl Scouts, the 4H Club. - Ruth Buzzi, Actress
24-Jul-1936
- I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was. - Maria Callas, Musician
02-Dec-1923 - 16-Sep-1977
- Wit doesn't make girls pretty. - Jeanne Calment, Celebrity
21-Feb-1875 - 04-Aug-1997
- There is a lot of good quality music being made and from this tour and the touring we've been doing over the 10 years there has definitely been a big pickup in people showing up, especially in girls 18-24. - John Campbell
- I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his - Robert Capa, Photographer
22-Oct-1913 - 25-May-1954
- You'd be surprised. Girls like sensitive, namby-pamby guys. - Lizzy Caplan, Actress
01-Jun-1982
- The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. - George Carlin, Comedian
12-May-1937 - 22-Jun-2008
- Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls. - Leslie Caron, Actress
01-Jul-1931
- You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That's what's important, KISS is important. I think we look great, and the attitude is there, and I'm real happy with it. - Eric Carr, Musician
12-Jul-1950 - 24-Nov-1991
- There's no dancing girls. We're kinda like secondary to the thing. It's a story about these two guys that are in love with this one girl and how it unfolds and what happens. - Eric Carr, Musician
12-Jul-1950 - 24-Nov-1991
- It was pretty extensive - we worked out 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, which I think is more than anybody in the Olympics. I thought well I don't need this, the girls need it, but it was a gift. - David Carradine, Actor
08-Oct-1936
- I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet. - Jung Chang, Writer
- For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies. - Joan Chen, Actress
26-Apr-1961
- Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it. - Lynne Cheney, Celebrity
14-Aug-1941
- I like to rock and roll, but I'm a mushy guy, too. I want to be the guy that all the girls love and all the guys want to hang out with. - Kenny Chesney, Musician
26-Mar-1968
- The funny thing about making this record and being away from the girls and on my own in LA is that it allowed me to reflect on how much we've accomplished. - Melanie Chisholm, Musician
12-Jan-1974
- I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot. - Melanie Chisholm, Musician
12-Jan-1974
- Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience. - Melanie Chisholm, Musician
12-Jan-1974
- A lot of people have been quite surprised with the stuff that I'm doing on my own, which shocks me because I've always known what I wanted to do. But people have only seen me with the Spice Girls, so I suppose it's not that surprising. - Melanie Chisholm, Musician
12-Jan-1974
- I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls. - Tommy Chong, Actor
24-May-1938
- Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. - John Ciardi, Dramatist
24-Jun-1916 - 30-Mar-1986
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