B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.”
“Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.”
“Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.”
Source: Hocus Pocus
“Beer, well respected and rightly consumed, can be a gift of God. It is one of his mysteries, which it was his delight to conceal and the glory of kings to search out. And men enjoy it to mark their days and celebrate their moments and stand with their brothers in the face of what life brings.”
“Beer. It always seems like such a good idea at the time, doesn't it? What's worse is beer seems like an even better idea after you've had some beer.”
“Beer. Now there's a temporary solution!”
“Beer: Helping ugly people have sex since 3000 B. C.”
“Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.”
“Beerd me!”
“bees
dig the plum blossoms”
Source: Selected Writings of Charles Olson
“Bees and ants are very small, but their mentality is very big. This is why I believe in not judging a book by its cover.”
“Bees are a recurring symbol of the Merovingians and the humming or buzzing sound of bees is likened to supersensible “sounds” experienced by many Sufis as they enter spirit realms.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They just can't buzz any slower.”
“Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.”
“bees are the batteries of orchards, gardens, guard them.”
Source: The Bees
“Bees? Are you telling me we have space bees?”
Source: Trillion Dollar Sky: Climate Fiction Romance
“Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things”
Source: The edge of day: a boyhood in the west of England
“bees came for honey flowers giggled as they undressed themselves for the taking the sun smiled”
Source: The Sun and Her Flowers
“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”
“Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.”
Source: Stray Birds
“BEES USE VERY LITTLE OF WHAT THEY PRODUCE AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM! DO YOU PRODUCE MORE THAN YOU NEED?”
“Bees will not work except in darkness;
Thought will not work except in Silence;
neither will Virtue Work except in secrecy.”
Source: The Treasure of the Humble
“Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,
As fair as ever and as fit to use;
So both the flower doth stay and honey run.”
Source: The Works of George Herbert: Poems
“Beespittle, droppings, hairs
of beefur: all become honey.
Virulent micro-organisms cannot
survive in honey.”
Source: Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967
“Beetee is still messing round the tree, doing I don't know what. At one point he snaps off a sliver of bark, joins us, and throws it against the force field. It bounces back and lands on the ground, glowing. In a few moments it returns to its original color. "Well, that explains a lot," says Beetee. I look at Peeta and can't help biting my lip to keep from laughing since it explains absolutely nothing to anyone but Beetee.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“Beetee's glad we find the plan hard to follow, because then our enemies will, too.
Like your electricity trap in the arena? I ask.
Exactly. And see how well that worked out? says Beetee.
Well...not really, I think.”
“Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.”
“Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.”
“Beethoven and Liszt have contributed to the advent of long hair.”
Source: Notes of a Pianist
“Beethoven and Michelangelo, who sold their artworks for profit, were entrepreneurs and capitalists.”
Source: In Praise of Commercial Culture
“Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from ideally combining the noise of streetcars, internal-combustion engines, automobiles, and bust crowds than from rehearsing, for example, the 'Eroica' or the 'Pastorale'...away! les ust be gone, since we shall not much longer succeed in restraining a desire to create a new musical realism by a generous distribution of sonorous blows and slaps, leaping numbly over violins, pianofortes, contrabasses, and groaning organs, Away!”
“Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.”
“Beethoven can't really be great because his picture isn't on a bubble gum card.”
“Beethoven concertos ... Tchaicovsky concertos ... with a lot of these wonderful masterpieces there's always something wonderful to find ... there's always something new to find.”
“Beethoven exprimiu tudo, tudo. Seu sucessor não poderá continuar; deverá começar de novo. Pois o mestre só acabou no ponto em que acaba a arte'.
Franz Grillparzer, discurso fúnebre por ocasião da morte de Beethoven em 1827.”
Source: O Canto do Violino: E outros ensaios inéditos
“Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It's as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.”
“Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.”
“Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day.”
“Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.”
“Beethoven introduced us to anger. Haydn taught us capriciousness, Rachmaninoff melancholy. Wagner was demonic. Bach was pious. Schumann was mad, and because his genius was able to record his fight for sanity, we heard what isolation and the edge of lunacy sounded like. Liszt was lusty and vigorous and insisted that we confront his overwhelming sexuality as well as our own. Chopin was a poet, and without him we never would have understood what night was, what perfume was, what romance was.”
Source: The Wild Rose
“Beethoven said that it's better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to embarrass yourself; we are all students in this life, and there is always something more to learn.”
“Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.”
“Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.”
“Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.”
“Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it in his mind. He could write it down hearing it in his mind. He was just music. Yeah, he's one of my favorite writers of all times.”
“Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.”
Source: Brain Droppings
“Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice.”
“Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.”
“Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.”
“Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain.”