The old G's, or the gangsters, turned me away from the street because they knew my dad, and they had a lot… — Ed Reed Copy Share Image
Gangsters lived in the neighborhood. They weren't apart from it. Their relationships with people were both benevolent and scary. — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
“Christmas ought to be brought up to date,” Maria said. “It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted… — Brion James Copy Share Image
Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up? — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks. — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to major general. And during that period, I spent most of my time… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
Look, you see those groups talkin' about negativity and anger, and they'd do that for two albums, and then you'd see them… — Prince Copy Share Image
“Few would have seen Solomon and realised they were looking at one of wartime London’s top gangsters. With his receding hairline, thick-lenses… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
I think I could totally be a gangster, but I could never be the kind of gangster that carries things out myself.… — Elena Satine Copy Share Image
I think one of the most destructive things in terms of American security has been for all of our leaders, without exception… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Gun control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. I'm a bad… — Sammy Gravano Copy Share Image
“Behind the facade of elected government are a bunch of corporate controlled gangsters running the country.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a… — Emraan Hashmi Copy Share Image
Gangsters dont die, niggas only become immortal. Angels dont only fly, they walk right before you. — Nas Copy Share Image
You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I'm not the thief who grabs your… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
If Dr. Mahathir thinks that by ordering the police to act like gangsters he will frighten the people from supporting this reformation… — Wan Azizah Wan Ismail Copy Share Image
The hip-hop that I really connected with was Public Enemy, KRS-One, Ice Cube, and N.W.A. That late '80s and early '90s era.… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
I am the epitome of the underdog. By societies standards I should have been dead a long time ago, and I was… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
“The next day this meeting at Apalachin is the biggest thing to ever happen to Italian gangsters in America. All of a… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
He was the class clown, the court jester, because he'd learn early that if you cracked jokes and pretended you weren't scared,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot,… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
That's basically the gangster code. Just be yourself. Just be you, dog. The easiest way to get your card plucked around a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
I'm tired of Italian gangsters. Not that I don't watch 'The Godfather' every morning when I get up and 'Goodfellas' when I… — Richard Belzer Copy Share Image
We are a democracy and we don't believe in just hunting down gangsters and killing them. We believe in trying to find… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Of course, political leaders are much more ambitious than gangsters. The latter are content to take your money, whereas the former, besides… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Punishing enemies and rewarding friends - politics Chicago style - seems to be the unifying principle that helps explain the Obamacare waivers,… — Michael Barone Copy Share Image
As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
“The groups in different areas that were affiliated with us knew one thing for sure, and that is that they could trust… — Drexel Deal Copy Share Image
Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I grew up in the projects with four older brothers. And there were tough, macho gangsters, drug dealers, killers, and thugs all… — Michael Che Copy Share Image
'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
