Boy Meets Girl Quotes:

Boy Meets Girl, So What?

- Bertolt Brecht

source: Bertolt Brecht, Werner Hecht (1998). “Werke”

topic: Broken Heart, Girl, Boys, Boy Meets Girl

If it is the case that love does survive death, then you may consider this to be a happy ending. Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Happily ever after or not.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Girl, Boys, Doe, Boy Girl, Boy Meets Girl

Boy meets girl; girl gets boy into pickle; boy gets pickle into girl.

- Jack Woodford

source: Jack Woodford (2012). “The Autobiography of Jack Woodford”, p.299, askmar publishing

topic: Girl, Drinking, Boys, Boy Meets Girl

You know how it is. Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story, really.

- David Gemmell

source: "The Swords of Night and Day". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 14, 2004.

topic: Girl, Boys, Everyday, Boy Meets Girl

You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.

- Terry Southern

topic: Girl, Boys, World, Boy Meets Girl

The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.

- Nathan Myhrvold

topic: Girl, Boys, Ideas, Great Literature, Boy Girl

What's difficult to understand about German opera? It's always the same. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love, girl gets devoured by horrible winged creature with claws.

- Susan Wiggs

topic: Girl, Falling In Love, Boys, Boy Girl, Boy Meets Girl

Because of my comedic-influence growing up, Mel Brooks, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin… A lot of Jeff comedic-influences included Charlie Chaplin and physical comedians of the silent-era. What we were able to do together is to show all these major influences but make it into our own comedy. We've seen the stereotypical boy-meets-girl story a hundred thousand times…

- J. Robert Spencer

source: "J. Robert Spencer: Jersey Boy & Movie Man". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. November 13, 2007.

topic: Girl, Growing Up, Boys, Boy Meets Girl

Believe it or not, people went so far as to suggest that I might not be able to write songs anymore because now I am married. I tried to explain again that there are other things to write about besides boy meets girl, girl meets boy, boy breaks up with girl, girl is sad.

- Lucinda Williams

source: "An Interview with Lucinda Williams". The Believer Magazine, Issue Ninety-One, believermag.com. July 1, 2012.

topic: Girl, Song, Believe, Boy Meets Girl

Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth.... A mother's love isn't cliché, it's universal. These things are archetypes. They're the building blocks of myth and legend. They are a big part about what it means to be human.

- Patrick Rothfuss

topic: Girl, Mother, Revenge, What It Means To Be Human, Tropes

Boy meets girl. Boy marries girl. Boy and girl angst over which family they visit at Thanksgiving and which one in December and whether or not it's best to serve turkey or goose for the family feast. When first faced with the reality that the family you married into does things differently, the warmth of tradition can take on a chill.

- Marge M. Kennedy

topic: Girl, Boys, Reality, Boy Girl, Boy Meets Girl

Alexander and I sat together on a backyard swing. "This is like a dream come true," Alexander said as we gently swung back and forth. "We can finally just focus on us now. Continue the traditional 'Boy meets girl, girl falls for boy, boy turns out to be a vampire' story.

- Ellen Schreiber

topic: Girl, Dream, Fall, Back And Forth, Boy Meets Girl