Quotes about Girls

by Futurescopes Research Team
  1. 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
     
  2. 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
     
  3. 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
     
  4. I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head. - Alvin Ailey, Dancer
    05-Jan-1931 - 01-Dec-1989
     
  5. 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
     
  6. 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
     
  7. 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
     
  8. 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
     
  9. What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close. - Tori Amos, Musician
    22-Aug-1963
     
  10. 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
     
  11. Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. - Maya Angelou, Poet
    04-Apr-1928
     
  12. Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work. - Susan B. Anthony, Activist
    15-Feb-1820 - 13-Mar-1906
     
  13. 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
     
  14. Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. - Hannah Arendt, Historian
    14-Oct-1906 - 04-Dec-1975
     
  15. Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors. - Dario Argento, Director
    07-Sep-1940
     
  16. 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
     
  17. 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
     
  18. 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
     
  19. I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls. - Burt Bacharach, Composer
    12-May-1928
     
  20. 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
     
  21. It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. - Tallulah Bankhead, Actress
    31-Jan-1903 - 12-Dec-1968
     
  22. Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time. - Tallulah Bankhead, Actress
    31-Jan-1903 - 12-Dec-1968
     
  23. You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights. - Bob Barker, Actor
    12-Dec-1923
     
  24. 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
     
  25. 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
     
  26. 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
     
  27. 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
     
  28. There's room for boys' and girls' football in the world-that's what I believe. - David Beckham, Athlete
    02-May-1975
     
  29. I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls. - Kate Beckinsale, Actress
    26-Jul-1973
     
  30. 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
     
  31. 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
     
  32. 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
     
  33. 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
     
  34. 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
     
  35. 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
     
  36. 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
     
  37. 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
     
  38. Guys aren't threatening. Other girls are the competition. You are usually what they're fighting over. - Jonathan Bennett, Philosopher
     
  39. Girls aren't mean to guys in high school. They are mean to each other. Girls were never mean to me. - Jonathan Bennett, Philosopher
     
  40. I still have horrible luck with girls. - Jonathan Bennett, Philosopher
     
  41. 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
     
  42. 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
     
  43. 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
     
  44. 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
     
  45. 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
     
  46. 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
     
  47. 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
     
  48. 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
     
  49. I like outgoing girls with a lovely smile and beautiful eyes. - Corbin Bleu, Actor
    21-Feb-1989
     
  50. 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
     
  51. 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
     
  52. That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls. - Simon Le Bon, Musician
    27-Oct-1958
     
  53. 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
     
  54. 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
     
  55. 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
     
  56. 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
     
  57. 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
     
  58. 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
     
  59. 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
     
  60. 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
     
  61. 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
     
  62. 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
     
  63. I love attention. If I see a gang of girls? That makes me dance even more! - Chris Brown, Musician
    05-May-1989
     
  64. 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
     
  65. 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
     
  66. Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere. - Helen Gurley Brown, Editor
    18-Feb-1922
     
  67. 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
     
  68. 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
     
  69. 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
     
  70. 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
     
  71. 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
     
  72. 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
     
  73. I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices. - Betty Buckley, Actress
    03-Jul-1947
     
  74. 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
     
  75. 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
     
  76. 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
     
  77. 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
     
  78. 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
     
  79. 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
     
  80. Around 7 years old, we girls took dancing lessons, joined the Brownies, the Girl Scouts, the 4H Club. - Ruth Buzzi, Actress
    24-Jul-1936
     
  81. 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
     
  82. Wit doesn't make girls pretty. - Jeanne Calment, Celebrity
    21-Feb-1875 - 04-Aug-1997
     
  83. 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
     
  84. 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
     
  85. You'd be surprised. Girls like sensitive, namby-pamby guys. - Lizzy Caplan, Actress
    01-Jun-1982
     
  86. 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
     
  87. Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls. - Leslie Caron, Actress
    01-Jul-1931
     
  88. 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
     
  89. 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
     
  90. 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
     
  91. 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
     
  92. 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
     
  93. 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
     
  94. 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
     
  95. 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
     
  96. 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
     
  97. Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience. - Melanie Chisholm, Musician
    12-Jan-1974
     
  98. 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
     
  99. 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
     
  100. 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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