B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America.”
“Because I can’t live without Della. I don’t want to. She’s the reason I get up in the mornings - Woods”
Source: Twisted Perfection
“Because I claim to know where I am at does not mean that I am at the place that I claim to be. For quite frequently the 'claim' represents my attempt to be what I am not, while the 'place' represents my attempts to not be what I am.”
“Because I come from such a close family, my natural instinct is to marry and have kids as soon as possible.”
“Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn't on a box.”
“Because I come from the theater, I use the images of the theater and of movies a great deal when I write. I see the story in my head. I have to break down the outline of a story first. I have to know where I'm going. Usually I have a good beginning and a good ending, and then I think, "Now I have to find my way through it."”
“Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.”
“Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labour, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children played, Their lessons scarcely done; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice but a mound. Since then 'tis centuries; but each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity.”
“Because I could see that all these kids were weird and even they didn't accept me, I knew I was the strangest one of all.”
Source: There's A Boy In Here: Emerging from the Bonds of Autism
“Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.”
“Because I could throw so hard when I got to college, they made me a pitcher. If I had to it all over again, I would have stuck to playing in the outfield. I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.”
“Because I couldn't go for three.”
“Because I cursed him to it. (Acheron) Be glad I’m not physically there or I’d slap you upside the head. You know how free will works, so stop the whining and get off the cross. Someone needs the wood. (Savitar)”
“Because I’d known our relationship wasn’t healthy, yet I’d let him twist me up over and over just so I could feel gratitude on the days he decided to help me untangle the knots he’d tied. I was never enough for him. Never what he wanted. Always begging for scraps of attention, perpetually left empty.”
Source: Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions
“Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it.”
Source: The Haunting of Velkwood
“Because I detest entering the fray and I am most averse to taking a hit of any sort, I think myself to be on a journey when I am in reality cowering at road’s edge.”
“Because I didn't know it at the time, but I wanted you to see me”
“Because I didn't go to film school, I had a collection of books that were inspiring or taught me how to make movies, shorts with my friends back in Brooklyn, and one of those books was How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime which is Roger's autobiography. After reading that, I realized that oh my God, this guy is behind all my favorite Pam Grier movies. Oh my God, he made the Vincent Price Poe films that ran on television when I was little. He did Grand Theft Auto. He made Death Race 2000.”
“Because I didn't go to film school, you learn so much from a lot of creative artists.”
“Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.”
“Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.”
“Because I didn't see war in Iraq through the partisan lens that seems to dominate a lot of the perspective today with Fox News on the one side and MSNBC on the other, I didn't see it as Democrats good, Republicans bad. I saw it as a situation where the United States is a force that engages in these military operations around the world, and it's the job of journalists to provide the American people with information they can use to make informed decisions.”
“Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.”
“Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.”
“Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?”
Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot
“Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.”
“Because I do so many action-oriented films, I started working with stunt people doing fight training, then I found it to be just great exercise. Also I like to be fit, so I've continued on with fight training. Right before I got to do 'Conan,' I was fighting off four guys. Its great fun. And strange.”
“Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.”
“Because I do what I want. I might like wearing a dress, but I don't wear it for them. It's for me. Because I like the feel of it. And I'll not have them taking anything from me that I'm not willing to give”
Source: Wake of Vultures
“Because I don’t believe that you are a slave to what you’ve become. I don’t believe that you simply can’t.”
Source: A Shade of Vampire
“Because I don't care what anyone says or how often or willingly they say it: no one will ever, ever be able to persuade me that life is some awesome, rewarding treat. Because, here's the truth: life is catastrophe. The basic fact of existence - of walking around trying to feed ourselves and find friends and whatever else we do - is catastrophe.”
Source: The Goldfinch
“Because I don’t care what anyone says or how often or winningly they say it: no one will ever, ever be able to persuade me that life is some awesome, rewarding treat. Because, here’s the truth: life is a catastrophe. The basic fact of existence – of walking around trying to feed ourselves and find friends and whatever else we do – is a catastrophe. Forget all this ridiculous ‘Our Town’ nonsense everyone talks: the miracle of a newborn babe, the joy of one simple blossom, Life You Are Too Wonderful To Grasp, &c. For me – and I’ll keep repeating it doggedly till I die, till I fall over on my ungrateful nihilistic face and am too weak to say it: better never born, than born into this cesspool. Sinkhole of hospital beds, coffins, and broken hearts. No release, no appeal, no “do-overs” to employ a favored phrase of Xandra’s, no way forward but age and loss, and no way out but death.”
Source: The Goldfinch
“Because I don’t even know if this life is right for me anymore. I don’t know what I want to do.”
Source: The Wild Dogs of Kumamoto
“Because I don’t like being the fool who’d been tricked. I like games, but I hate to lose.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens, and that tribesmen fight because they are part of the human race. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now.”
Source: The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel
“Because I don't own it, I'll never lose it.”
Source: Sulit
“Because, I don’t trust a word out of your mouth. You screw with my head and my heart. I’m done. I’m done letting you into my life to trample on my emotions.”
Source: Mending
“Because I don’t trust people,” Pip said. “Even my mom, who I do trust, has things she doesn’t tell me, really important things, and it would be nice to have a way to find them out without her having to tell me. I’d know the stuff I need to know, but she’d still be OK. And then, with everyone else, literally everyone, I can never be sure of what they’re thinking about me, and I don’t seem to be very good at guessing what it is. So, it’d be nice to be able to just dip inside their heads, just for like two seconds, and make sure everything’s OK—just be sure that they’re not thinking some horrible thought about me that I have no clue about—and then I could trust them. I wouldn’t abuse it or anything. It’s just so hard not to ever trust people. It makes me have to work so hard to figure out what they want from me. It gets to be so tiring.”
Source: Purity
“Because I don’t want my final days in this universe to be filled with pity and sorrow. I want to spend this time doing what I like best for the people I care about most.”
“But… you don’t even know me.”
“Maybe not, but lord do you ever talk in your sleep. It’s clear you love my boy very much.”
Source: Saga, Volume 2
“Because I don’t want to give you any reason to be mad at me. I don’t want to give you a reason to hate me because, as much as I might have have begged you to do that, you’re the single most important thing in the world to me, Charlie Chase. You’ve become my world. And how do I live in a world where you don’t exist?”
Source: Hard Knox
“Because I don't believe everything I read.”
“Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.”
“Because I don't belong entirely to Britain or the U.S. or India or Japan, I build my foundations in some way deeper than mere passports, and more in the light of where I'm going than of "where I come from."”
“Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do.”
“Because I don't have a child and as much as you can sort of imagine it it's always nice to hear from all different walks of life what motherhood is like and what that feels like. And particularly young mothers.”
“Because I don't have everything I want. Not even close.”
Source: Dark Flame
“Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.”
“Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present".”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.”