Quotes About Hoodlums

#1. America's biggest failure is its inability to take comedy seriously.

H.L. Mencken

#2. With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.

LZ Granderson

#3. The junior hoodlums who roamed their streets were symptoms of a greater sickness; their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights' . . . and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure.

Robert A. Heinlein

#4. Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.

Sophia Loren

#5. When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up.

Prince William

#6. I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.

Nat King Cole

#7. I definitely ran with a pack of hoodlums, that's for sure.

Kristen Wiig

#8. Liberals pretend to believe that when two random hoodlums kill a gay man in Oklahoma, it's evidence of a national trend, but when a million people buy a book, it proves absolutely nothing about the book-buying public.

Ann Coulter

#9. Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.

Brigitte Bardot

#10. Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face.

William S. Burroughs

#11. Yesterday, I masturbated for 45 minutes ... with salad tongs.

Zach Galifianakis

#12. Jesus planted the first church on earth with a group of hoodlums who wouldn't be let inside the doors of most churches today.

Preston Sprinkle

#13. You're not there to spread any particular- if you're Bob Marley you're there to spread a message, but very few people can do that effectively without shoving opinions down someone's throat.

Jon Fishman

#14. Which are you first, a Jew or an American? A Jew.

David Ben-Gurion

#15. Do not regret the past. Look to the future.

Soyen Shaku

#16. I don't want to watch 'Newsnight.' I just don't understand those politicians who genuinely want to watch it for pleasure.

George Osborne

#17. Some of these challenges may be foreseable, many of them may not. Some of the risks associated with a rapidly changing climate may be quantifiable, many of them may not. Doing nothing is not an option.

Mike Hulme

#18. In the swift wounding of his own flesh on a bewildering impulse from the hot, pitch-black core of himself he had felt a deep joy which was not only unperceived by the hoodlums surrounding him but which he himself was not even conscious of as joy.

Kenzaburo Oe

#19. There was definitely something to be said for grown men dressed in nice suits instead of hoodlums in baggy jeans with three inches of underwear showing.

Giuliana Rancic

#20. You named them: hustlers, killers, fiends, ex-cons.
I called them: cousins, aunts, pops, moms.
To you? Hoodlums, crackheads, gunmens.
To me? Just neighbors, classmates, young friends.

Ka

#21. What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums.

Jerome Charyn

#22. Believe in a love that is preserved for you like a heritage, and trust that in this love there is a strength and a blessing which you are not bound to leave behind you though you may travel far!

Rainer Maria Rilke

#23. The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"
anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.

Joe Bob Briggs