Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ice Cube

'Boyz-n-the-Hood' was actually supposed to be written for Eazy's group. He had a group out in New York called Home Boys Only, called HBO. One of them looked like LL Cool J. Eazy wanted to write a song for them, a street song, like what we were doing on the mix tapes. So when I wrote it, it was too West Coast for them.

Gillian Armstrong

Hollywood is a very old and very structured situation. There's still a lot of old boys at the top who have the money.

Gillian Armstrong

Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills.

Waylon Jennings

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.

Abraham Lincoln

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

Alfred Verrecchia

The overall decline in our boys' business hurt toys' profitability because that is a high margin business for us,

Ann Romney

That's why I like to get out there, and get people to see the other side of Mitt, and know us in a different reflection when you see the family and how funny he is with the boys and with the grandkids. And you know, just what a super guy he is. That's part of what I am doing, is letting people see the other side of Mitt.

Dev Hynes

I was 13 years old at music school talking to my teacher. I can't quite remember what it was I was trying to describe, but I do remember my music teacher saying to me, 'Do you have synesthesia?' In hindsight, it seems a little presumptuous of her to think a little boy in Essex would know what synesthesia was.

Rick Perlstein

In Ronald Reagan's chaotic childhood, the imagination was armor. There is nothing unusual about that; transcending the doubts, hesitations, and fears swirling around you by casting yourself internally as the hero of your own adventure story is a characteristic psychic defense mechanism of the Boy Who Disappears.

Phillip Gay

Will was a very easy-going guy who took time to mentor new faculty members, including me. I'll remember him for his wry wit and sense of humor.

John Gabriel

We realized on Friday, since we were having a faculty meeting on Monday, that we'd better have a faculty.

Rodney Campbell

One of the priorities of ?Campaign Arizona' was endowed support of faculty and staff, not only to retain the great faculty that you already have but also to recruit more from other institutions or private industry.

Rich Ballinger

We're proud that any student can walk and play 18 holes of golf for $5 during the week and $8 during the weekend. Faculty and staff will have discounted rates as well. It's a great thing for the university as a whole. Students will have to provide their own equipment. In the future we hope to offer rental sets, but at the moment we don't have any.

Gene Pingatore

He is a quiet leader and an outstanding student. What impresses me the most is that all of the faculty have nothing but good things to say about him, and that shows his character.

Susie Porter

It is a special opportunity for the community, students and faculty to speak with Mexicans.

Jules Verne

It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.

Frank Turner

Now, students and faculty can all learn about this great writer firsthand,

Ben Borries

I thank the faculty and administration and students for their support over the years. We have super teachers who are quality people to work with.

Wyclef Jean

I don't have to be president to do great things for my country, but at the same time, to get legislation and policy passed, you have to be in some kind of office. So I don't know what the future will lead to.

Ezra Taft Benson

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

Ellie Goulding

I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something.

Brooke Adams

I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It was just something I saw in my future. But somehow when it happened, I wasn't ready for it.

Brian K. Vaughan

I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.

Daniel Kahneman

We think of our future as anticipated memories.

Dean Geyer

I am a songwriter at heart, and I feel like I would, in the future, write songs for other people. I don't think I want to pursue it for myself, for a solo career.

Barack Obama

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Nayvadius Cash

I just want to be an inspiration. I'm a rock star, I'm Future Hendrix.

Troy Dayak

We had opportunities and we missed them, and the momentum went back the other way and killed us.

Larry Mikesell

We just continually missed too many shots. I called two timeouts to stop the bleeding, but during that 16-0 run, we probably missed three lay-ups.

Jon Sundvold

I thought I missed the memo, but there wasn't a memo.

Vicki Flotta

I'm still not worried about walking under ladders. It's actually been pretty neat to see how we've pulled together and we really haven't missed a beat. We're probably all just a little more tired at the end of the day.

Krystal McKenzie

We got there, her mother said she could run it, and then we missed the 300.

Mary Harris

I was upset. I didn't say anything but I really missed it.

Kevin Kelly

I still had my confidence. I don't think I've ever missed three in a row.

Robert Ross

I think if Phoenix pulled out, it would be a missed opportunity for Phoenix and the state of Arizona.

Steve Armstrong

We couldn't find the net, just missed too many shots.

Darryl Paulson

For much of the '70s, '80s and '90s, it was like the neglected stepchild told it was going to have to go to work to support the family,

Ann Jones

we have neglected that area. And it will take a big project to really turn it around.

Sue Kelly

The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure.

Debbie Carter

She did not look like she was neglected in any way.

Ariel Sharon

Now they're really disillusioned with him because he is doing the opposite. They feel quite neglected because the state used to nourish them. But at the end of the day, they are a small hard-core.

Edwin Morgan

I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.

L. Ron Hubbard

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you.

John Updike

There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.

Pieter Mulder

We are now paying the price. This should not be seen as a racial argument, but as a simple truth of management.

Joel C. Rosenberg

We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price.

Guy Pearce

On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?

Verlene Powell

One of the big things that Boise seemed to have a problem with at this school. Was that we were paying to teach all these teachers, but they were going to other states because of better pay and what not.

Tom Ahola

We took a piece of property that was getting $800 a year in (real estate) taxes. Now we're paying $17,000 a year. We think it's ridiculous, but what are you going to do?

Tom Smith

If this is what we are paying $192 a year for, then we just got taken for another ride.

John Curry

We are getting ripped off. We are not getting what we are paying for.

Kevin McHale

People aren't paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they're paying to see the cast of 'Glee.'

Sean Quinn

I'm a hard-nosed businessman, that if a company is paying its way, increasing profits for thirty-odd consecutive years, you don't put it into receivership.

William Mosher

That was surprising to us. The previous studies had not shown as much.

Hideo Kojima

As a game creator, I'm not 100% satisfied when looking back at the previous game that I released.

Kim Yuna

Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance.

Norman McLaren

I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

This is what happened to me when I received the governorship. The corrupt previous governor didn't do the handover. We received the Miranda governorship completely dismantled.

George Papandreou

Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.

Chris Tarrant

Of course, completely, ... My previous producer always said we were there to learn.

Regina Smith

It's not unlike what we've seen in previous years.

Paul Frost

It was just, but only just, better than the previous week. Three anglers managed to catch.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Benny Hill

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

Augusten Burroughs

but I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely.

Michelle Shocked

Yeah, I am a hick. I am naive, and I am sincere and it's wonderfully unfashionable.

John Rentoul

But that's not to say it's not sincere as well.

Alice Walker

Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Confucius

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.

Bill O'Reilly

Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that. You can't explain why the tide goes in.

Bill O'Reilly

Tide comes in, tide goes out, you can't explain it!

Bayard Taylor

And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.

Austin O'Malley

Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another.

Anant Agarwal

Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats,

Cormac McCarthy

It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.

Jules Verne

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

Pat Conroy

In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.

Pat Conroy

The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.