B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Bailey, Ace and I continue to look for a place to live, and, it would seem, so is everyone else. In fact, word around Eden Perch is that a prosperous millennial woman from Boomer City has expressed interest in the scrubby lot that sits behind my parents’ home. According to my mother’s contact, the woman is not only interested in purchasing the land but also in building. With this revelation, the whole suburb is in an uproar. None of the other residents of Eden Perch want to buy the plot, but they don’t want anyone else to have it either. And now that someone else has shown interest, every objection comes crawling up to meet the challenge.”
Source: A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir
“Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain man, who soon confuses his own interest and his own safety with that of the leader.”
Source: Just Representations: A James Gould Cozzens Reader
“Bailey sat on the edge of the couch and fed Maddy grapes. The very swollen mommy-to-be initially complained about being fed like a pet. Eventually, she gave in and enjoyed the attention. Not to be outdone, Sawyer turned a fan towards Maddy and was painting her nails. I watched them baby her and wondered about when I would be that big and uncomfortable.
“I’m in no hurry to have a baby,” Tawny said, maybe for the tenth time since arriving. “Not in any hurry at all.”
Farah grinned from where she was cutting carrots into little perfect sticks for dipping. “Coop is obsessed with getting me pregnant. First, his little brother is about to have a baby then his best friend. I swear whenever we’re alone, he’s inside me,” she said then her smile grew. “It’s awesome.”
“Huh,” Tawny muttered. “Judd is in me all the time too and not because he’s trying to plant his flag or lay his seed or whatever.”
“Jealous?” Farah asked and Tawny fake glared at her.
“Sometimes, my sister irritates me too,” I said and they both laughed.
“I’m going to brush the baby’s hair,” Bailey announced to no one in particular. “When she’s old enough, I’m going to put those little barrettes in her hair and make her wear headbands and turn her into a doll. Then when she cries, I’m giving her back to Maddy.”
“Yeah for me,” Maddy whispered with her eyes closed.
“Are you suffering?” Bailey asked. “Like should I do more for you to ease away the horror of how huge you’ve become?”
Opening her eyes a crack, Maddy muttered, “Stop charming me.”
Bailey grinned. “Seriously, you look pretty miserable today.”
“I’ve been having those Braxton Hicks contractions since yesterday.”
“Is that bad?” Sawyer asked, looking up from her meticulous work on Maddy’s toes. “Is it like hemorrhoids?”
When we laughed, Sawyer beamed, even though she likely had no idea what was funny.
“They’re like practice contractions,” Maddy explained. “They don’t hurt much, but they’re uncomfortable.”
Bailey frowned. “How do you know all this stuff?”
“I read a book.”
“Yeah, I did that once. Not a fan.”
“You guys don’t have to hang out here,” Maddy said. “The guys are out having fun and you’re pampering me. You could go to the movies if you want.”
“No,” Bailey said quickly. “I need to be super nice because I had a dream that being nice will lead to a handsome awesome guy who is the fucker. I want that guy. He belongs to me and I’m sick of waiting, so shut up and let me be nice to you.”
“Sure,” Maddy said, sighing. “This is nice, but I’m going to have to pee soon.”
“Do you need me to carry you?” Bailey asked.
“Maybe. Ask me in a few minutes.”
Source: Damaged and the Cobra
“Bailey, shut up and let me fuck what belongs to me. We can talk later.”
Source: Hopeless
“Bailey took an exasperated breath and sat up in the seat. “You can’t reason with a teenage girl.”
Elise’s eyebrow shot up. “Bailey, you’re a teenage girl.”
“Exactly.”
Source: Hidden Elements
“Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.”
“Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!”
“BAIT GOAT There is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set one out like a bait goat and wait and seven others will approach. But watch out: roving packs can pull your word away. You find your stake yanked and some rough bunch to thank.”
Source: The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
“Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation.”
“Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
“BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Baiting is the narcissist and flying monkeys deliberate act to provoke emotional reactions from you. It's to confirm their superiority and power over you. The destruction they inflict onto you may baffle you. Baiting could take any form. It's essentially them doing something vile to evoke a negative response from you.”
Source: Toxic Siblings: A Survival Guide to Rise Above Sibling Abuse & Heal Trauma
“Bajan Pride
Barbadians should be proud of Rih,
Thanks to Evan Rogers and Jay-Z,
At only twenty eight,
Rih's at the top of her game,
And it's seems like Robyn Rihanna,
Is still the same,
Same friends,
Same personality,
Never adding flavor to her accent
Some say Rih has never changed,
Even with all her diamonds and pearls
Rihanna is still a St. Michael Girl.”
“Bajarse cuando pasa la bala no cobardía; lo malo es desafiarle para caer y no volverse a levantar.”
Source: Noli me tángere: Edición enriquecida.
“Bajo un gobierno electo popularmente, los incentivos políticos son hacer lo que es popular, a pesar de sus posibles consecuencias negativas, o hacer algo tan popular como sea posible”
“Bajé del taxi. Las aceras estaban encharcadas, la lluvia caía con fuerza. El cielo lloraba lo que mis ojos no se atrevían o no habían sido capaces de expresar. Y un nudo se quedó atrapado en mi garganta”
Source: En aquel último aliento
“Bajé las escaleras, despacio. Sentía una viva emoción. Recordaba la terrible esperanza, el anhelo de vida con que las había subido por primera vez. Me marchaba ahora sin haber conocido nada de lo que confusamente esperaba: la vida en su plenitud, la alegría, el interés profundo, el amor. De la casa de la calle de Aribau no me llevaba nada. Al menos, así creía yo entonces.”
Source: Nada
“BAK BİL Kİ ATLARIN ÖNÜNE İNCİLER SERİLMEZ.
MÜCEVHERLERDEN SARRAFLAR ANLAR ANCAK, BAŞKASI BİLMEZ...
NE FARKEDER Kİ KÖR İNSAN İÇİN ELMAS DA BİR CAM DA.
SANA BAKAN BİR KÖR İSE, SAKIN KENDİNİ CAMDAN SANMA.”
Source: Dîvân-ı Kebîr
“Bak canım, ben sana aşığım,
izin verirsen hayatım boyunca
peşinden köpek gibi koşacağım,
ama ikinci köpeğin gibi koşamam.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“Bak dostum, bu söyleyeceğim sana ezoterik gelebilir, ama sen ciddiye al, bazen bir şey seni değiştirmek, seni daha doğruya yönlendirmek için sadece senin için senin karşına çıkar, belki bir kitap, belki bir film belki biri, oradaki mesaj sanadır, o mesaj sadece senin için gelmiştir, o mesajı iyi değerlendir!”
“Bak, dostum, hedefine doğru ilerlerken karşına bir sürü kurukafa çıkacak, heyecanları olmayan, düşünceden, fikirden, büyük ideallerden yoksun bir sürü kurukafa moralini ve konsantrasyonunu bozmaya ve seni yolundan döndürmeye çalışacaklar! Geri dönersen yazıklar olsun! O kurukafaları görünce onlara tekmeyi bas, yoluna devam et çünkü onların tek amacı seni de kendilerine, hedefsiz, amaçsız, heyecansız, idealsiz bir kurukafaya dönüştürmek!”
“Bak dostum, şunu hiç unutma, eğer hayat önüne harika bir sakinlik koyuyorsa, bil ki gelecek fırtına için senin enerji biriktirmeni, dinlenmeni istiyordur, bu fırsatı iyi değerlendir!”
“Bakat seakan menjadi tumbal, seolah dengan mudahnya menyalahkan Si Bakat terhadap hal-hal yang tidak mereka kuasai”
Source: Sila ke-6: Kreatif Sampai Mati
“Bake a lie into proven facts and you will be surprised at how many fall for it.”
“Bake in heels.”
“Bake some bread. Make a focaccia bread or bake a whole mill loaf. Do something creative, and then put the labor of love into it in the beginning. When you take that bread out of the oven and you eat it an hour- and- a- half, two- hours later, you start to appreciate it more and then you eat less because you worked so hard to make it, you appreciate it in a much better way.”
“Bake with love..”
“Baker has done it again! Building on the core principles that he advanced in Professional's Guide to Value Pricing and The Firm of the Future, Ron Baker has again evolved thought leadership on the critical dynamics of value and pricing. Baker's latest work, Pricing on Purpose: Creating and Capturing Value, provides real-world examples and practical strategies that provide a framework for pricing optimization. His clarity of purpose and passionate call to action resonates in today's intellectual capital economy.”
“Baker, baker, can you explain, if truly his heart was made of icing.”
“Bakers bake bread, accountants manage accounts and entrepreneurs turn ideas into reality.”
“Bakers can’t bake bread because they can’t get flour. So why do people burn wheat fields and kill bakers when it’s their fault there’s no flour?”
Source: Her Own Legacy
“Bakers get excited over aprons. I love the soft cotton ones with pockets like my gramma and mom wore. They always kept a hankie tucked in one pocket, which wasn't sanitary, but was comforting to the child who needed a tear or nose wiped.”
“Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer.”
“Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer; bakers of large loaves will not buy grain before two o'clock. This will enable the people of the town to obtain their supply first. Bakers shall put a distinctive trademark on their loaves, and keep weights and scales in their shops, under penalty of having their licenses removed.”
“Bakery air is that steaming hot front of thick, buttery fumes waiting for you just inside the door of a bakery. And I am just going to tell you straight up: That is some fine air!”
Source: The Book of Awesome
“Baking and cooking bring me inner peace, like a tasty version of yoga, without all the awkward stretching and sweating. When my life spins out of control, when I can't make sense of what's going on in the world, I head straight to the kitchen and turn on my oven, and with the press of a button, I switch one part of my brain off and another on. The rules of the kitchen are straightforward, and when I'm there I don't have to think about my problems. I don't need to think about anything but cups and ounces, temperatures and cooking times.
When I was a freshman at Cornell, I heard a plane had flown into the World Trade Center while sitting in my Introduction to American History lecture. My friends and I ran back to our dorm rooms and spent the next few hours glued to the television. I kept my TV on all day, but after talking to my parents and watching three hours of the coverage, I headed straight to the communal kitchen and baked a triple batch of brownies, which I then distributed to everyone on my floor. Some of my friends thought I was crazy ("Who bakes brownies when the country is under attack?"), but it was the only thing I could do to keep from having a panic attack or bursting into tears. I couldn't control what was happening to our country, but I could control what was happening in that kitchen. Baking was my way of restoring order in a world driven by chaos, and it still is.”
Source: The Girls' Guide to Love and Supper Clubs
“Baking and love go hand in hand, for as one bakes a tasty treat and fills the room with its sweet aroma, the true joy is to take what has been made and share it with another.”
Source: Kipnuk Has a Birthday
“Baking bread is a lot like growing your faith in the Lord, Carrie Louise. You mix together the best ingredients you can find and wait for the mixture to mature, but it's the heat of the oven that makes it something of worth and substance. The same way the tribulations of this world mature a persons faith.”
“Baking calms me; it's stabilizing.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“Baking calms me; it's stabilizing. It's what I do when I don't want to think about anything hard. It is an activity that requires very little from you- you just follow the directions, and then at the end you have created something. From ingredients to an actual dessert. It's like magic. Poof, deliciousness.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.”
“Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.”
“Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen.”
“Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread or cookies. With baking, you have to be exact when it comes to ingredients.”
“Baking is like washing--the results are equally temporary.”
Source: Raven's Shadow
“Baking is my business, and it will always come first.”
“Baking is too precise for me. I cook with a pinch of this or that.”
“Baking isLife. So when you describe what you're making, you must describe life. Do you see? It's not just recipes.”
Source: The Little Book Of Sweets And Cake: A Jenny Colgan Sampler 2011
“Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.”
“Baking may be regarded as a science, but it's the chemistry between the ingredients and the cook that gives desserts life. Baking is done out of love, to share with family and friends, to see them smile.”