80s Rap Quotes

#1. When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.

Thomas Moore

#2. Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world ... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.

Chubby Checker

#3. The world is full of people who mean no harm and cause a great deal of it.

Patricia Cornwell

#4. I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.

Noel Gallagher

#5. Well then that's our date confirmed. I am excited! Most girls want to know if I have long term plans to start a family; you want to know if I like 80s rap. I think I'm in love with you.
Actually, I'm not you have a foul mouth and terrible taste in men by all accounts.

Lucy Robinson

#6. You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.

Gaines Adams

#7. They like him better when he was the poor cousin that they can feel good for taking notice. I tell him that politician do the same thing to me when they realize me can read.

Marlon James

#8. Margaret Benton; creative marketing director

Alice Schroeder

#9. Reality ... includes a perceiver, who has memories, thoughts, desires, emotions - [which] a normal camera tends to omit.

Barbara Ess

#10. The Unites States is the largest developed country. Canada enjoys a flourishing economy and advanced technology. Mexico is an important developing country. China attaches great importance to the friendly cooperation with the three countries,.

Li Zhaoxing

#11. I'm greedy for a second serving of those words. I want a dessert of those words, a soup, a salad. I wanted to salt those words and snap them in like peanuts.

Alice Randall

#12. I talk kinda slow, especially for the Northeast, so it was a way to beat (would-be hecklers) to the punch.

Jim Gaffigan

#13. In the '80s and '90s, I was really interested in, moved by, exhilarated by, and troubled by rap in all the ways a white person from Brookline, Massachusetts should be. That was music that was making trouble, and it was interesting and provocative trouble.

John Hodgman

#14. What is a Better Feeling then Be Loved in Love?

Jan Jansen

#15. I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#16. When I didn't have friends, I had books.

Oprah Winfrey

#17. I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.

Mayer Hawthorne

#18. You can be honest without sharing your opinions on everything.

Temple Grandin

#19. By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

Chuck Eddy

#20. Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.

Sitting Bull

#21. It's always something when you let other people in your world.

James Lileks