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.

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.

Gore Vidal

Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things.

Bill Burr

A lot of my fears and anxieties are the fears and anxieties of a six-year-old boy. When I finally confront them, they're really small.

Bette Davis

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

Isabella Bird

Baghdad is altogether built of chrome-yellow kiln-dried bricks.

Evangeline Lilly

I am five foot six, I am built of muscle and bone, and that is not very good for fashion, but it's who I am. Women who look good in fashion are six foot tall, don't have an ounce of muscle, and their legs are the size of my arm.

Doc Hastings

Our region's economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends on the continued success of the enterprises they have worked so hard to create.

Ken Bacon

The pay is now going up about 3.5, 3.7 percent a year, more than the rate of inflation, and that's built into the five-year plan. So pay is improving.

Anne Wilson Schaef

We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today.

Brunello Cucinelli

I like the idea of an enlightened principality. In the early eighteen-hundreds, in Germany, there were princes who built schools, streets, homes. I like that.

Christopher McDougall

We're designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. What's built into that kind of running is a sense of pleasure. You are designed and built and perfect for this activity, and it should be enjoyable and fun.

Denis Villeneuve

In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's everything. And I was the worst hockey player of Canada.

Nina Easton

Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector.

Goldie Hawn

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

F. Sionil Jose

Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.

Mark Richt

We have an opportunity this week, if we can find some way to win it, to clinch the Eastern Division. I don't know if that's going to happen or not. We just have to take inventory of who can play right now.

Brad Taylor

From what we can see, it's a trend that is moving into Eastern Washington from Western Washington.

Michael Schlacter

For third consecutive winter, harsh winter weather will be the main theme for eastern United States.

Phil Davis

His team will now provide support for the folks in eastern Texas as well as the Louisiana area,

DeAnn Sampley

Just to see the poverty in Eastern Europe is shocking.

Liang Liang

He knows how to handle the subtle inner feelings in a Eastern way while retaining the American way of telling the story.

Shibley Telhami

He is terrifying to Middle Eastern elites. He is terrifying to Middle Eastern governments,

Saeb Erekat

The amendments mean pursuing Jewish settlements and not resuming the negotiations from the point where they left off.

Peter Riegert

As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.

Noam Chomsky

People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor.

Harry Triguboff

We had a Jewish school; we had a Jewish club. My father was a main donor. My mother was on the committee of the school.

Harry Triguboff

I realized that we have to do everything we can to preserve the Jewish race. I'm very proud of it, and I think it's wonderful.

Amy Heckerling

To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they'd have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister.

Calvin Trillin

Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.

Lesley Ann Warren

I was terrified, terrified in 'Songwriter,' because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.

Avigdor Lieberman

The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state...I very much favour democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.