Hood Quotes

Personally, I like the social novel. I like writing that gets in and under the hood and looks about - at what's going on. But I don't say to any writer that that's absolutely what they should do.

I'm from my hood, and everybody knows me in my neighborhood, and that's cool, I can do what I want over there, but in other people's neighborhoods, I can't.

DNS is kind of the hamster under the hood that drives the Internet.

I was in Hollis' band for eight years, playing drums. At one time we had Barry Beckett, Jimmy Johnson, David Hood - everybody but Roger Hawkins. We had a hell of a band.

Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.

Anybody can make hood music or club records, that's not hard. But can you make music that touch people's souls. That's what I was out to do.

I'd take about 40 thousand CDs, and then take about three full vans of people to hit every hood, every mall, and every club. Just hit one city to the next.

I have tons of rescuing fantasies based on the movies I saw when I was growing up. I wanted to be Robin Hood and the Three Musketeers and the Scarlet Pimpernel.

I bought my wife a little Italian car. A Mafia. It has a hood under the hood.

Like Robin Hood....Not real, but true.

Robin Hood is often seen as the hands-on-hips, archetypal, tally-ho hero. But, realistically, the one calling the shots wouldn't be at the front shouting about it. He'd be the one you don't expect.

I would rather portray the hero, if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in "The Last of the Mohicans" and "Robin Hood."

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall you look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.

I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.

My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich.

I would say [Fed policy] has been in some sense Reverse Robin Hood.

Well,” said Ronan, “I hope he likes it. I’ve pulled a muscle.” Gansey scoffed, “Doing what? You were standing watch.” “Opening my hood.

Music doesn't have to be your livelihood to make your 'hood lively.

Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.

By waging the drug war and "getting tough" almost exclusively in the 'hood, we've managed to create a vast new racial undercaste in an astonishingly short period of time.

I want to have conversations, because they give you confidence in your choices. I learned it first on Boyz n the Hood, but it is not a race-based experience - it is part of the artistic process.

But Anne, do you love him?" I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. "I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.

I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.

Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like Shrek or The Simpsons, Robin Hood manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.

Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

They walked with a pedatory grace.... one of them ripped off their hood and said, "my name is Tally Youngblood and is a special circumstance".

I think that the new models of Chevrolet should have Barney Frank as a hood ornament.

I swear, Kat, you drive like you’re playing a video game. (Cassandra) Yeah, yeah. Wanna see the ray gun I have under the hood to zap them if they don’t get out of my way? (Katra)

In my hood, I was always with the older guys, but I like everybody's music.

Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and one more time they are out.

I think if you were to really peek under the hood of what got Aerosmith back again for our second life in the Eighties, you'll find out that it's exactly this, it's the willingness to take a risk.

When you're a screenwriter, it's like being a mechanic. You open the hood of the story, the director is the driver, and he says, "What do you think? It's a little tough."

If the hoods don't get you, the monoxide will.

New Jack City' and 'Boyz 'N the Hood' are realities, but movies like 'Strictly Business' are realities, too.

This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.

I can dine at the White House, but I can still hang at the 'hood.

Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Under this cradle-hood and coverlid My child sleeps on.

Rise and rise again until lambs become lions

One Life With Many Names, Childhood, Boyhood, Manhood And Old, Then? Then! All Unknown, Uncertain Destination....

That's different, " Levi smiled at her warmly. "Ypu don't rock that Little Red Riding Hood vibe. You're scary." Reagan grinned like the Big Bad Wolf.

When your freedom depends on the death of an innocent, it haunts you forever, ' Red thought empathetically. 'Even if you couldn’t save them anyway.

We feel that we fit into this fandom even if we're an outcast or misfits in this world." -Mary, 16, Philippines

I may some day get a boyfriend and eventually a husband, but you will always be my first loves." -Sheetal, 14, Qatar

At the end of the day, I fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. If that makes me an outlaw, so be it. I’ve been called worse.

The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark.

What if there were health food stores on every corner in the hood, instead of liquor stores!?

Stories are made about girls like you. The wild ones, those rare faces that smile in the midst of chaos.

sStip settling for someone who doesn't meet your expectations and find someone whom already holds the characteristics you're looking for.

The tricky thing about the hood is that you’re always working, working, working, and you feel like something’s happening, but really nothing’s happening at all.