B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“By the time we, consumers, are aware of processes like genetic engineering, they're already being done. It's sort of like the war in Iraq: By the time we know about it, it's almost a fait accompli. And that's certainly true with science.”
“By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep.”
Source: The Secret Life of Sleep
“By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.”
“By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water."”
“By the time you are in your thirties, most of the time, you've got a job, you can pay for your rent, you can create this nice world around you. And still, you're only in your thirties - you're not that far away from your twenties, which is when you're making all of your stupid mistakes.”
“By the time you arrive at Sundance as a filmmaker, you've been living with your film intimiately, and scrutinized every frame, and probably aren't happy with - or at least I'm never happy with it - and you've seen it in the roughest of states, and you lose perspective, really.”
“By the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998
“By the time you do what it takes to be a hero, you don't want to be a hero.”
“By the time you establish your priorities, there really isn't any fun or need to interest yourself in what you're doing. And this I find disastrous.”
“By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.”
Source: American Psycho: Picador Classic
“By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write the next paragraph.”
“By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.”
“By the time you get close to the answers, it's nearly all over.”
“By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.”
“By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something unattainable. Never-ending undying love. And in hip hop, we're still taking direct inspiration.”
“By the time you get to year six, there's never a break . . . and you get tired. There's always a crisis. It wears you down. This has been a White House that hasn't really had much change at all. There is a fatigue factor that builds up. You sometimes don't see the crisis approaching. You're not as on guard as you once were.”
“By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.”
“By the time you have described a moment in words, it has passed away. Instead of talking about dead moments, let us birth a new moment in silence.”
“By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.”
Source: Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays
“By the time you kill and mount what you catch, it has lost that very thing that made it worth having. I knew this only as a vague sense of disappointment at age 10; not until later did I recognize it as a metaphor for much of life.”
“By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.”
“By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game.”
“By the time you read these pages, I will be bones in the earth.
I have thought of you every single moment since the night I lost you. As I lie here dying, I think of you still.
I have cried an ocean of tears in the hope that I will see your cornflower blue eyes again, though I know it can never be. I wonder where you will end up in this hurricane that has become your life. Much of it is my fault, for I am the man responsible for whatever has happened to you.”
Source: Three Houses on a Hill
“By the time you read this letter, these words will be those of the past. The me of now is gone.”
Source: A Writer's Year: Fennel's Journal No. 3
“By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.”
Source: Diary: A Novel
“By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.”
“By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying.”
“By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five weeks; I do several drafts, very, very furiously rewriting. I literally do more or less nothing else and I stick with it and go through it and I begin to hate it.”
“By the time you're 30 years old, you can be on a nowhere street, if you're not careful.”
“By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.”
“By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.”
“By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.”
Source: Choke: A Novel
“By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.”
“By the time your perfect information has been gathered, the world has moved on.”
Source: The 60 Second Leader: Everything You Need to Know About Leadership, in 60 Second Bites
“By the time your training is complete, you'll come on command my defiant queen.”
Source: Eternal Night
“By the time you’ve had a relationship with a horse for a while, there are characteristics in the way the horse behaves with you and around you and responds to you that are directly (related) to some of your traits as a human being…whether it’s insecurity or aggression or fear or hate.”
“By the tits of Holy Agnes”
“By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.”
Source: The War of the Worlds
“By the touch of an unselfish soul, even the regular sidewalk becomes holy.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”
Source: Orlando: A Biography
“By the turn of the twentieth century, every state in the South had laws on the books that disenfranchised blacks and discriminated against them in virtually ever sphere of life, lending sanction to a racial ostracism that extended to schools, churches, housing, jobs, restrooms, hotels, restaurants, hospitals, orphanages, prisons, funeral homes, morgues, and cemeteries. Politicians competed with each other by proposing and passing every more stringent, oppressive, and downright ridiculous legislation (such as laws specifically prohibiting blacks and whites from playing chess together.)”
Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.”
Source: Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943
“By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.”
“By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?”
Source: The Screwtape Letters
“By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.”
Source: Discourses on the Christian revelation, viewed in connection with the modern astronomy: To which are added, Discourses illustrative of the connection between theology & general science
“By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes.”
“By the very logic of its grow-or-die imperative, capitalism may well be producing ecological crises that gravely imperil the integrity of life on this planet”
Source: Our Synthetic Environment
“By the very nature of being a clergyman's son, people tend to put you slightly apart, which is - you tend to live a life, at some stages, as being - people being suspicious of you and puts you rather on a - I don't mean lonely, particularly. But it does tend to put you apart.”
“By the very nature of government schooling, the matter of what goes into school textbooks must necessarily be a political matter, to be decided by those I political power.”
“By the virtue of modesty the devout person governs all his exterior acts. With good reason, then, does St. Paul recommend this virtue to all and declare how necessary it is and as if this were not enough he considers that this virtue should be obvious to all.”