B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Barbie, perché non abbiamo un bambino?"
"Smettila di fare domande stupide e comincia a scoparmi."
"Cosa significa scopare?"
"Quando lo capirai, i nostri problemi saranno finiti."
Aveva come l'impressione che invece sarebbero appena iniziati.”
Source: Cronache dalla fine del mondo
“Barbie”
Through my many long travels I’ve seen women reading books on planes, buses, and trains…
Over the years, three titles caught my eye, each in the hands of women who looked—or tried to look—like the Barbie doll.
I don’t recall the exact names, but one was along the lines of ‘How to Keep Your Husband’ or ‘How to Preserve Your Marriage.’
The second warned of ‘Signs He’s Cheating on You,’
and the third promised how to get rid of him—and move on.
It felt as if these three titles mapped out the lifecycle of every woman who lets herself play Barbie.
And I often wonder: wouldn’t reading ‘How to Stop Playing the Barbie Role in Love and Life’ be enough to solve all the problems those books claim to fix?
[Original poem published”
“Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.”
Source: Bellwether
“Barbie’s disfigured. It’s fine to play with her just as long as you keep that in mind.”
Source: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's
“Barbra Streisand has accomplished so much, and Dustin Hoffman as well. They are down to earth and approachable. I admire that.”
“Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies”
“Barca is more than a club and a great team and I want to contribute to Messi staying the best for many years.”
“Barca is nothing but a small part of Real Madrid’s history”
“Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way...”
“Barcelona is a great city and Spain is a great country to live in.”
“Barcelona is a special track. I have always loved the layout of the circuit, but also the atmosphere and the fans are special. It has always been good fun.”
“Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.”
“Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it. In Los Angeles, it is quite the opposite: it is an older city than it might seem to be, but you don't perceive this -- every day you get out of your home, you are driving somewhere and sometimes you get this impression that everything was put there the night before.”
“Barcelona is always a club that, at the beginning of the season, wants to win everything. I will try my best to do that with them and I'm sure I will help as much as I can.”
“Barcelona is my home and I hope that I stay here for many years.”
“Barcelona is my life. They have brought me to where I am today. I could not leave, I don't want to leave. I know the Premier League is very good. But I cannot see myself playing in England because my heart is with Barcelona, always.”
“Barcelona is now in the past. I was sick and boxed in, and that's understandable why I lost.”
“Barcelona players are passing the ball at least 25 times to reach the goal, while Real Madrid's Xabi Alonso is doing this all in a single pass.”
“Barcelona, the tournament is, for all the Spanish players, an amazing event. I think is one of the top events on tour because is a historic event with a lot of tradition. A lot of years of the tournament, a lot of great players have been playing there. And it's in a real tennis club.”
“Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.”
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...
“Barclays Bank in England purchased bankrupt Lehman Brothers Tuesday along with its Manhattan tower, saving nine thousand jobs. It's humiliating. The United States of America is 232 years old and we're having to go to mom for money.”
“Bardic oaths weren't made to Shkoder, they were just made.”
Source: The Quartered Sea
“Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.”
“Bards don’t believe in goodbyes—we know that the roads we walk are winding, and we generally tend to come back to people and places we’ve known and been before, and often at just the right time.” I smiled. “We’ll meet again.”
Source: The Chronicle of Heloise & Grimple
“Bards of passion and of mirth,
You have left your souls on earth!
You have souls in heaven too,
Double -lived in regions new?”
“Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new?”
“Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music.”
Source: Sing the Four Quarters
“Bardur and the boy had leaned back a bit and looked at the sparkling sky that makes us humble and powerful at once and seems sometimes to speak to us. What is says carefully cleanses old wounds.”
“bardziej lubię ludzi niż zasady, a ponad wszystko lubię ludzi bez żadnych zasad.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Bardzo wielu Polaków nosi cudzoziemskie nazwiska. Są one pamiątką po mniej lub bardziej odległych cudzoziemskich przodkach, zwykle jednak nie wyciągamy z tego wniosków dotyczących narodowej tożsamości człowieka. Aleksander Brückner miał bez wątpienia jakichś niemieckich, a właściwie austriackich przodków, ale nikt nie powie, że był Niemcem lub Austriakiem. Wiemy, że był Polakiem, wielkim luminarzem polskiej humanistyki. Nikt też nie powie, że Niemcem był Ryszard Reiff, w czasie okupacji żołnierz AK, potem jeniec NKWD, który zdołał uciec na piechotę z Syberii do kraju, następnie działacz PAX, przewodniczący tego stowarzyszenia, jedyny członek Rady Państwa PRL, który nie głosował za wprowadzeniem stanu wojennego, a w 1989 r. senator z listy OKP. Był to szczery Polak i – bez względu na powikłane losy – prawdziwy patriota. Podobnie Jadwigi Staniszkis nikt nie uważa za Litwinkę, a Romualda Szeremietiewa – za Rosjanina. Ale o Sewerynie Blumsztajnie mówimy bez zastanowienia: to Żyd. Mówimy tak, bo miał żydowskich przodków, podobnie jak Reiff – niemieckich, Jadwiga Staniszkis – litewskich, a Szeremietiew – rosyjskich. Tyle, że tamci się spolszczyli, więc są Polakami. A Blumsztajn to Żyd. Przecież ma żydowskie nazwisko. Ostatecznie możemy złożyć daninę poprawności politycznej i powiedzieć o nim, że to Polak pochodzenia żydowskiego. Wbrew pozorom jednak niewiele to zmienia. Nie mówimy przecież o Szeremietiewie, że jest Polakiem pochodzenia rosyjskiego. Widocznie jest tu jakaś nieusuwalna różnica.”
Source: Zajeździmy kobyłę historii. Wyznania poobijanego jeźdźca
“Bare and glistening blooms do reach,
longing to connect with my being.
Setting my feminine spirit alight
in a tightly wound body of darkness.
The promise of fortuitous fruit,
arouses my thirst to conquer
a world of madness and dark rule,
with womanhood as my stealth.
[Spring’s Touch]”
Source: Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall
“Bare Bones? Oh, there were a few of you in the joint. Nice guys. Leastways, someone must’ve told them to be nice to me, ‘cause they never offered to stroll with me down Bosco Boulevard or give me a baloney colonic.”
Source: The Bare Bones
“Bare en rekke årsaker som kommer etter hverandre kan gi katastrofale eller seierrike utfall.”
Source: Mannen og muren
“Bare feet are the best shoes!”
“Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound traditional around the story. This is one she's called mother willow tree, it's beautiful”
“Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves.”
Source: Succeeding With What You Have
“Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there He can renew us.”
“Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.”
Source: The Annotated Emerson
“Bare minimum feels like royal treatment when you have a history of being undervalued.”
“Bare nocturne gleams,
a canopy of star light above.
A pent up constellation
of our restrained love.
Buried spirits we’ve become,
forbidden by our families
to surrender to our desires.
[Bare Nocturne]”
Source: Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall
“bare skin in sunshine, wild under moonshine”
“Bare skin is the one and only right criterion for receiving water's gracious acceptance or any acceptance whatsoever from that element. But Pliny also seems to say something more: Stripping off not caution but the stale, crusty garments of preconception, peeling sensibly down to raw, new nakedness, is the only way to enter and be properly embraced by the world.”
“Bare strength entitles the Men to no superiority above us”
Source: Woman Not Inferior to Man
“Bare twigs in April enhance our pleasure; We know the good time is yet to come.... Bare twigs in Autumn are signs for sadness; We feel the good time is well-nigh past.”
Source: Poems
“Bare vent. Der dukker en eller anden smuk ainatunari op og tager sig af hende. Som i et menneskeeventyr, hvor den gode prins redder den smukke prinsesse. Han finder hende, forelsker sig i hende og bringer hende sikkert tilbage til hendes far og bror i det skønne kongerige.”
Han sendte Ryna det smil, som han vidste, hun ikke ville kunne modstå, og ganske rigtigt bredte smilet sig nu også over Rynas ansigt. Der var det glimt i Rynas øjne, som Alaric havde savnet hele dagen.
”Hvis jeg kender hende ret, så stikker hun prinsen en lige højre, stjæler hesten og rider selv ud og finder sin bror.”
“Bare your struggles very close to your heart and have them be a part of you that you’re proud of instead of something that you’re ashamed of.”
“Bare," came her answer in a squeak. "Yes, we'd both have to be bare," he said with a laugh. "Not bare naked," she gasped. "Bear bear. Furry bear. Bear!" -Mortimer and Sam”
“Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.”
Source: The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
“Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design.”
Source: Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
“Barefoot on the shore, I steady myself, alone.
Tides sway back and forth as earthly hours trace forward motion on the clock. Reassuring ease refreshes with the smooth, slow bloom of morning twilight, governed with consistent timing by predictable planetary spin.”
Source: The Cosmos of Amie Martine