B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Being in a bathtub with Jackie Chan, I don't know, it has a way of bonding you I'll tell you that. I don't know if there are some weird undertones. It was like we had met in Los Angeles and we didn't have that much to say to each other but, after that bathtub scene, we were great friends.”
“Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.”
“Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.”
“Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood.”
“Being in a foreign place, preferably for the first time, having seen many things and collected new impressions, and returning to an empty hotel room with an hour or so to blow. That mix often yields fine results.”
“Being in a group is a way to actually to speak up, and define yourself in the comfort, and the complexity of the group.”
“Being in a group is fun, but embrace solitude if you want to achieve something.”
Source: The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse
“Being in a hurry does not slow down time.”
“Being in a hurry gives us the illusion of doubling the length of every second.”
“Being in a hurry is the father of stress and worry.”
“Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.”
Source: Essays
“Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing.... Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away.”
“Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.”
“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.”
“Being in a public space with [Mark] Spiegler is simultaneously the best and worst. Because he's a porn agent, he's constantly on his phone yelling things like 'Your boy/girl scene tomorrow just became anal!' regardless of where we are.”
Source: Dirty Thirty: A Memoir
“Being in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm - you couldn't hear yourself think.”
Source: The Ivory Dagger
“Being in a relationship doesn’t entitle you to anything. You don’t get what you expect, you get what you create.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“Being in a relationship grounds you. You feel a sense of home.”
“Being in a relationship has the tendency to deceive one into believing that there is someone without whom one cannot live.”
“Being in a relationship is like being in A.A. My friends ask me, 'How's it going with that girl?' 'One day at a time, man.'”
“Being in a relationship is not an achievement. Being in a loyal relationship is!”
“Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are. [But] I do pick you. We've been friends too long to pick, but if we could pick, I'd pick you.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“Being in a relationship, that’s something you choose. Being friends, that’s just something you are. I’d pick you. Fuck it, I do pick you. I want you to come over to my house in twenty years with your dude and your adopted kids and I want our fucking kids to hang out and I want to, like, drink wine and talk about the Middle East or whatever the fuck we’re gonna do when we’re old. We’ve been friends too long to pick, but if we could pick, I’d pick you.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“Being in a relationship with some people is like pushing a boat through sand. I used to have the time and energy for that kind of nonsense, but not anymore. Relationships should be a wonderful journey of exploration and love; not grinding resistance.”
“Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's something you just are.”
“Being in a religion is important but you must remember that all religions have limitations, and these limitations put people inside karmic cycles, among which are also the common cycles that unite them, in the same challenges as well as in similar achievements, keeping them attached as a group within the same faith. This is how the mechanics of any religion are formed in order to allow the creation of an everlasting tribe. Without such methodology, a religion would disappear, as so many others did in the past. And yet, the encompassing Truth of the Great Architect is much wider than all this, and much wiser than all religions combined.”
“Being in a rock band for 20 years is not the best resume for anything else.”
“Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.”
“Being in a rock band is just an excuse not to get a job”
“Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?”
“Being in a rock n' roll and pop world, it's very easy to act like a kid.”
“Being in a rock n' roll band was like being in a Sherman tank. Nothing got to you. You were surrounded and protected by men.”
“Being in a room with other people's energy yields such a different result. I love writing by myself still, but there's something amazing about sharing that experience with someone else.”
“Being in a shadow is never just as simple as stepping out of it. Shadows can camouflage a lot of things.”
Source: Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
“Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.”
“Being in a state of confusion is a self-torture.”
Source: Quantraz
“Being in a state of denial is a
universally human response to
situations which threaten to
overwhelm. People who were abused
as children sometimes carry their
denial like precious cargo without a
port of destination. It enabled us to
survive our childhood experiences, and often we still live in survival mode decades beyond the actual abuse. We protect ourselves to excess because we learned abruptly and painfully that no one else would.”
Source: Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder
“Being in a state of mystery seems to be my calling.”
“Being in a toxic relationship is a drug, and it needs to be treated like any other drug.”
“Being in a war situation is probably the most extreme situation for a human being to be in.”
“Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.”
“Being in a wheelchair has made everyday things difficult. Things you wouldn't imagine. Like the looks I get at high school basketball games when they tell everyone to stand for the National Anthem.”
Source: Write like no one is reading
“Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.”
“Being in an empty mind increases my intuition, my sense of energy.”
“Being in attack mode is something I try to bring into every single game, and that's what's making me be so successful.”
“Being in Birmingham, I thought I was going to be a gangster or a bag-runner or a thief. I heard music and I was determined to get out of there.”
“Being in Black Sabbath felt like being an actor in a soap opera.
It’s a minor miracle all four of the original lineup survived beyond the 1970s, let alone that we’re all still here. Along the way, we consumed enough booze and drugs to sink a battleship. Music writers spent decades trying to tear us down. There were so many lineup changes I sometimes didn’t know what band I was supposed to be in.”
Source: Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond
“Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.”
“Being in business is not about making money. It is a way to become who you are.”
Source: Growing a Business