Famous Quotes & Sayings

Retta

I would often get called in to play a very loud, obnoxious - which, truth be told, I can be loud and obnoxious. My issue was when it was like a ghetto girl; I didn't think I was good at it; I didn't feel authentic. And so I had insecurities about going in on it.

Young Jeezy

When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets.

Eartha Kitt

Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.

Carlos Mencia

When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call it camping.

Richard Williams

We're from the ghetto. Venus is a ghetto Cinderella. People from the ghetto don't get nervous.

Diana Ross

I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

Bono

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

Bono

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

Elie Wiesel

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

Denis Diderot

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

S. Hughes

There are too many things being funneled into the mayor's office, too many eggs in one basket. We want to delegate.

Isabel Gillies

My mother worked full-time running a foundation, but she found all the time in the world to have supper ready every night, feed us shirred eggs on the weekends, and produce a leg of lamb for my fourth-grade Bedouin feast at school.

Mark Kiesel

We are putting our eggs into the two- to five-year spot on the curve.

Ben Stein

I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.

A. J. McLean

My crotch is like scrambled eggs

Jim Olson

Those eggs have been sitting in the high marsh for as long as two years waiting for something like this.

Cervantes Saavedra

Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket.

Charles Stuart Calverley

The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her spectacles lay on her apron'd knees...

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.