Rumors About Boo Radley Quotes

Nobody knew what form of intimidation Mr. Radley employed to keep Boo out of sight, but Jem figured that Mr. Radley kept him chained to the bed most of the time. Atticus said no, it wasn't that sort of thing, that there were other ways of making people into ghosts. ~ Harper Lee

The Maycomb school grounds adjoined the back of the Radley lot; from the Radley chickenyard tall pecan trees shook their fruit into the schoolyard, but the nuts lay untouched by the children: Radley pecans would kill you. A baseball hit into the Radley yard was a lost ball and no questions asked. The ~ Harper Lee

Boo and I walked up the steps to the porch. His fingers found the doorknob. He gently released my hand, opened the door, enter inside, and shut the door behind him. I never saw him again. ~ Harper Lee

There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally. ~ Shawn Ashmore

Please do not devour me, I wish to remain Boo Radley. ~ Angela Marie Suor

Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world. She was even lonelier than Boo Radley, who had not been out of the house in twenty-five years. ~ Harper Lee

Rumors are born with legs that can run a mile in less than a minute.
Rumors eat up dreams without condiments.
Rumors do not have expiration dates.
Rumors can be deadly.
Rumors can get you killed. ~ Tiffany D. Jackson

Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people. ~ Morgan Freeman

After I was injured, I had several good examples of "Get on with it, stop whinging and life can be what you make it," because the world doesn't stop turning when you have a boo-boo. ~ Simon Weston

Becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens. ~ Katherine Boo

Honey Boo Boo is a handful, baby. She says what she wants to say, does what she wants to do. I've only seen, like, snippets, like one or two or three, you know, little shots of her, but yeah, she's a handful, baby. ~ Ashanti

As a kid, I really wasn't thinkin' about no golf. ~ Boo Weekley

There are new rumors about me every day. ~ Kylie Jenner

It annoys me when people who don't know what they're talking about boo the referee. ~ Jonah Lomu

But not every dog was Boo Radley. Sometimes a dog was just a dog. Sometimes a cat was just a cat. Still, I opened the screen door and stuck a red sticker on Lucille's head. ~ Kami Garcia

A girl could be virtuous without being perfect. Back ~ Katherine Boo

Everything around us is roses, and we're the shit in between. ~ Katherine Boo

Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours. ~ Brian Koslow

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~ Philip Sidney

You think your work is dreaming? ~ Katherine Boo

I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself. ~ Stephen King

Well, maybe it's because of the rumors they had going around, you know, they had some rumors about Dennis Brown was in the hospital and all that. Well, that is all bull! ~ Dennis Brown

When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure. ~ Katherine Boo

I love rumors. It gives me something to think about and enjoy. ~ Leonard Lauder

I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo Radley, just like in To Kill A Mockingbird. ~ Kathryn Stockett

Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough. ~ Harper Lee

People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other. ~ Katherine Boo

Ah, the boo. The boo is the most maligned, gossiped about, ridiculed figure in the pantheon of prison characters. Boo, which is short for the street term "booty call," is the casual girlfriend, the cheap feel in the sally port, the temporary object of someone's affections (although most boos don't realize the impermanence of their positions). ~ Erin George

I have not watched 'Honey Boo Boo'. ~ Lisa Ling

Turner [Reagan's "drug czar'] was especially determined to purge psychiatrists from federal drug agencies. "They're trained to treat," he said, "and treatment isn't what we do." Methadone was out, so Turner blocked advocates of the treatment who were still in the federal government from speaking about it publicly. ~ Radley Balko

I'm not squeamish. ~ Katherine Boo

Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating. ~ Ben Affleck

For years, Asha had hoped that her daughter wouldn't guess about the men. Now she wished she had raised Manju to be worldly enough to understand. This wasn't about lust or being modern, though she knew that many first-class people slept around. Nor was it just about feeling loved and beautiful. This was about money and power. ~ Katherine Boo

The lyrics, in English, were meaningless to him, the bass line irresistible. ~ Katherine Boo

And now out onto Airport Road and into the city's horn-honk opera. ~ Katherine Boo

Abdul rose with minimal whining, since the only whining his mother tolerated was her own. ~ Katherine Boo

The astonishing thing is that some people are good, and that many others try to be. ~ Katherine Boo

I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself. ~ Jonathan Ames

An awkward, uneducated boy might still be capable of righteousness: He intended to remember this and every other truth The Master spoke. ~ Katherine Boo

Ghosts of women are the worst. Years go by and they don't leave you be ~ Katherine Boo

In the age of globalization - an ad hoc, temp-job, fiercely competitive age - hope is not a fiction. ~ Katherine Boo

I've heard all kinds of crazy rumors about myself. I've even heard that I'm pregnant! I've become real good about laughing things off - I figure I'd better get used to it. ~ Carrie Underwood

But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader and a citizen, I don't want to live in that world. ~ Katherine Boo

Avoid trouble. This was the operating principle of Abdul Hakim Husain, an idea so fiercely held that it seemed imprinted on his physical form. ~ Katherine Boo

I grew up in a second when my mother died," he told Sunil. "My father and brother didn't understand me. ~ Katherine Boo

You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games. ~ Jack Kemp

We talk a lot about infrastructure in cities, and it's talking about highways and it's talking about trains, but I think more important to people who are low income is, how do I get from here to there? How do I become part of the affluence that's surrounding me? ~ Katherine Boo

It made sense to Abdul that in a polyglot city, people would sort themselves as he sorted his garbage, like with like. ~ Katherine Boo

But in her current mood, small affronts were bundled with larger disappointments and became a body of evidence. ~ Katherine Boo

Director Ken Burns revealed that his next documentary is about Franklin Roosevelt, and it's fourteen hours long ... which sounds like too much, until you realize there's been over thirty hours of TV dedicated to Honey Boo Boo. ~ Jimmy Fallon

Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives. ~ Barbara Kruger

Stuff about me dating Kim Kardashian - I have no idea where that came from and all these other rumors. I don't think I'm that type. ~ Jeremy Lin

I've heard rumors that the Petersons are writing a book. It will be very interesting to see what they have to say, but I don't know anything about the Rochas. ~ Catherine Crier

Yes, bin Laden the man is dead. But he achieved all he set out to achieve, and a hell of a lot more. He forever changed who we are as a country, and for the worse. Mostly because we let him. That isn't something a special ops team can fix. ~ Radley Balko

Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, "What a navigator I am!" And then the wind blows you east. ~ Katherine Boo

Rumors alone can cause his family grief. It just isn't fair to compromise a person's reputation. ~ Mary Ellis

That kid ain't got no bills to pay, he ain't got no kids; When you're that young to him it's only all about the sport he's playing. You don't have to worry about nuthin' else! ~ Boo Weekley

It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers! ~ Warwick Davis

Taking his cup, the soldier had stared at her for a long moment and said, 'Don't stand in the sun-- you'll get too dark" (141). ~ Katherine Boo

I don't care much for the cities. ~ Boo Weekley

law tends more and more to be grounded upon the maxim that every citizen is, by nature, a traitor, a libertine, and a scoundrel. In order to dissuade him from his evil-doing the police power is extended until it surpasses anything ever heard of in the oriental monarchies of antiquity. - H. L. MENCKEN, NOTES ON DEMOCRACY ~ Radley Balko

In India, a land of few safe assumptions, chronic uncertainty was said to have helped produce a nation of quick-witted, creative problem-solvers. Among ~ Katherine Boo

I had never thought about it, but summer was Dill by the fishpool smoking string, Dill's eyes alive with complicated plans to make Boo Radley emerge; summer was the swiftness with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when Jem was not looking, the longings we sometimes felt each other feel. With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable ... - Scout Finch ~ Harper Lee

Scotland's a pretty place. I mean, as long as it ain't raining. ~ Boo Weekley

In his first weeks back home, scavenging skills rusty, he took the sandals from the feet of his sleeping father and sold them to Abdul for food. ~ Katherine Boo

I think British audiences are accustomed to the 'boo' factor and pantomimes. ~ Nigel Lythgoe

After all, he was human, in spite of rumors to the contrary. ~ Peggy Webb

Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started. ~ Venus Williams

Like most people in the slum, and in the world, for that matter, he believed his own dreams properly aligned to his capacities. ~ Katherine Boo

No one made a decision to militarize the police in America. The change has come slowly, the result of a generation of politicians and public officials fanning and exploiting public fears by declaring war on abstractions like crime, drug use, and terrorism. The resulting policies have made those war metaphors increasingly real. ~ Radley Balko

Rumors travel faster then the speed of light ~ Sukant Ratnakar

Midnight was closing in, the one-legged woman was grievously burned, and the Mumbai police were coming for Abdul and his father. ~ Katherine Boo

Expectations are the rumors we spread inside us. ~ Himanshu Chhabra

I think that people who make judgements about other people they don't even know are shallow, and people who start rumors are shallow, and I really don't care what shallow people say about me. ~ Nina LaCour

A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all. ~ Katherine Boo

He wanted to go home to the place that he hated. ~ Katherine Boo

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust him. ~ Katherine Boo

Multiple studies, including from the Justice Department, have shown that the guns used in homicides, including the killing of police officers, overwhelmingly tend to be small-caliber handguns. Moreover, gun ownership has increased over the past 20 years - the same period in which both the violent crime rate and the killing of police officers have been in decline. ~ Radley Balko

I'm not really a betting person. I work too hard for my money to give it away. ~ Boo Weekley

So Kole how do you do it? I mean seriously Lexi sounded like she was having a constant orgasm. I need to set you down with Radley…his game is slipping a bit." I about choked on my own spit, "Oh f$$k no…conversation over. I am not ragging on my boy. I'm out of here." I slid out from under Lexi and left her with Megan, sitting on my bed to go look for Radley. I heard them laughing uncontrollably as I walked down the hallway.

"Radley…where the f$$k are you man? Your girl needs your help," I hollered as I came down the stairs. He was on the couch watching the football game, "Where is she…she disappeared on me?" I flopped down next to him. "She's upstairs with Lex talking about your lack of sexual abilities." He laughed, "F$$k…Whatever. ~ C.A. Harms

If the house is crooked and crumbling, and the land on which it sits uneven, is it possible to make anything lie straight? ~ Katherine Boo

To be poor in Annawadi, or in any Mumbai slum, was to be guilty of one thing or another. ~ Katherine Boo

San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo. ~ George Halas

We never hid anything from the kids. I feel whole again, I really do. I've told them, 'Mommy's boo-boo is much better now.' ~ Wanda Sykes

Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money. ~ Maurice Strong

Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic. ~ Ryan White

The biggest liar in the world is They Say. ~ Douglas Malloch

I can't really comment on rumors. ~ Larry Page

I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true. ~ Layne Staley

But for the poor of a country where corruption thieved a great deal of opportunity, corruption was one of the genuine opportunities that remained. As ~ Katherine Boo

In Hollywood, people get reputations, just rumors that are passed down. ~ Jason Statham

People make up rumors and put them on the Internet. ~ Shiloh Fernandez

I try to put out fires when bizarre rumors get started. ~ Chris Weitz

I've never really addressed those rumors because I figured, 'Why defend yourself against something that is not offensive'? ~ Johnny Galecki

Trying to figure out why Radley's such a horse's butt is all."

"It's a course we take at the academy," that deep voice said from beside her.

She looked up to see Radley's dark eyes staring down at her. Her face flushed before she could prevent it.

"Being a Horse's Ass 101. I got an A+. ~ Trish Milburn

It's just golf. As long as I get done without breakin' somethin' or hurtin' somebody, that's my goal. ~ Boo Weekley

I bow hunt and rifle hunt. It just all depends on where I'm at. ~ Boo Weekley

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth. ~ Venus Williams

You've got to have baddies that you can boo. ~ Richard C. Armitage

It is easy, from a safe distance, to overlook the fact that in undercities governed by corruption, where exhausted people vie on scant terrain for very little, it is blisteringly hard to be good. ~ Katherine Boo