B Quotes
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“Barefoot or first thing in the morning, I feel beautiful. I didn't always feel that way, but I feel that way now. When somebody loves you, and when you make somebody else happy, when your presence seems to make them happy, you suddenly feel like the most beautiful person in the world.”
“Barefoot travel allows you to get the true feel of a place.”
“Barefooted on the slick brick walk I rushed to where I could breathe in the cool breath from the interior of the springhouse. On a cold bubbling spring, covered dishes and crocks and pitchers of milk and butter and so on floated in a circle in the mild whirlpool, like horses on a merry-go-round, in the water that smelled of the mint that grew close by.”
Source: One Writer's Beginnings
“Barefooted workers would take apart, bit by bit, the dying ships with their bare hands, shipyard in Gaddani, Pakistan. On their shoulders, workers bore great metal plates to their destination. People complain about their crappy lives working in an air conditioned work place, imagine having this as your only option in life.”
“Barely a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already more beautiful and voluptuous than Miss America. When she arrived at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for our magazine shoot, I was bowled over. I couldn't believe she was only fourteen. She filled out a swimsuit better than I did. We did the pictures, including one shot of me teaching her to float. With that superstructure of hers, she floated just fine. What she couldn't do was sink.”
“Barely able to breathe, Eva's tongue slipped across her lips.
He moved a bit closer. "Every time ye walk past, I want ye. Your scent sends my insides into a maelstrom of need."
She closed her eyes and drew out the moment, wishing he'd say that again. Oh, how delectable to listen to a medieval Scotsman declare his desire.”
Source: Rise of a Legend
“Barely awake and already starting in with the questions.You were alot easier to take when you were sleeping." - Rio to Dylan”
“Barely caught thoughts whisper timeless weavings in my mind.”
“Barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.”
“Barely halfway back, exhaustion sets in. What if I don’t make it? An edge of panic gets intercepted by a calmer inner voice: Look behind you.”
Source: Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing
“Barely is enough for now.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“Barfield understood his epochal experience are not as a rebound from love sickness, but as a spiritual epiphany that cured a spiritual illness.”
Source: The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
“barfly n. You have the ability to talk to anyone which is an ability I do not share.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel
“Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.”
“Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain.”
Source: How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide
“Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.”
“Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.”
“Bargaining with God is pointless. He already has a thousand followers that will do what you bargained to do for free.”
“Bargains are the holy grail of the true stockpicker. The fact that 10 to 30 percent of our net worth is lost in a market sell-off is of little consequence. We see the latest correction not as a disaster but as an opportunity to acquire more shares at low prices. This is how great fortunes are made over time.”
Source: Beating the Street
“Bargains, bargains, El-ahrairah," he said. "There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here what is is what must be.”
Source: Watership Down
“Barges from around the world floated up and down the river on their way to and from Montréal and the Great Lakes. I imagined the sailors aboard these ships—far from home, tired, excited, adventurous, lonely—and felt a little better knowing I wasn’t the only stranger in this place.”
Source: The River is Everywhere
“Bark early, so the neighbor doesn’t have to.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“Barking at people earns their respect about as effectively as staring into the sun improves your vision.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Barking dogs don't bite, but they themselves don't know it.”
“Barking dogs may occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot!”
“Barking hard work, being a boy.”
Source: Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy: Leviathan; Behemoth; Goliath
“Barky was at her heels, and he let out a low, plaintive growl. She scooped him up and held him to her face the way Birdie had held the kitten---so naturally. They sniffed each other's noses.
It felt kind of good.”
Source: Love and Peaches
“Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.”
“Barlinnie Prison stands on dark and bloody ground. It is a temple of lost souls, and a place of living nightmares. It’s been the breaker of many a man’s dreams for more than a century. This prison works to a model of penitence with no pretence of rehabilitation. The criminal population that society has forsaken has filled this once, seemingly, bottomless pit to overflowing with their despair and nightmares of pain. More specifically, it is the battleground of an undeclared war that still ravages to this day, between the screws and the cons. The screws, backed by their authority, would use violence, but in return the prisoners would have to resort to their cunning, beguile, and the odd sudden act of violence.”
Source: Lost in Care: The True Story of a Forgotten Child
“Barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw?”
“Barn's burnt down...now I can see the moon.”
“Barna is correct when he writes, "After fifteen years of diligent digging into the world around me, I have reached several conclusions about the future of the Christian church in America. The central conclusion is that the American church is dying due to lack of strong spiritual leadership. In this time of unprecedented opportunity and plentiful resources, the church is actually losing influence. The primary reason is the lack of leadership. Nothing is more important than leadership."7”
Source: Comeback Churches: How 300 Churches Turned Around and Yours Can Too
“Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.”
Source: The John Green Collection
“Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch just announced that he is stepping down after three years. When asked if he's looking for a new job, he was like, 'Nah, just browsing.'”
“Barnes are blessings.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English
“Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.”
“Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing . . . . Nobody can play guitar like that”
“Barney Kessel was 'Mr. Guitar,' the foremost jazz guitarist of his generation. He had an amazing imagination, his solos were incredible, he swung his tail off, he was a heck of an arranger and could out-read anybody.”
“Barney Miller' was a lot of fun. I'm very fond of Abe Vigoda. Most - a lot of people on that cast - I really liked.”
“Barney's Dad was really bad so Barney hatched a plan when his dad said "Eat your peas." Barney shouted no and ran Barney tricked his mean old dad and locked him in the cellar Barney's Mom never found out where he'd gone, Cause Barney didn't tell her. There his dad spent his life eating mice and gruel With every bite for fifty years he was sorry he'd been cruel”
“Barnsley have started off the way they mean to begin.”
“Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Baron Black, a great man once said, 'Money is an interesting luxury, nothing more.' And at my age, I've known the pleasures of nearly every luxury there is. But the best of them, such as a daughter's kiss or a man's freedom of choice, are luxuries I would kill and die for. And I will keep fighting to keep that luxury. And the luxury of choice and one's freedom are luxuries all should know.”
Source: Blood & Loyalty
“Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.”
“Baron Humboldt asked Jefferson, "Why are these libels allowed? Why is not this libelous journal suppressed, or its editor at least, fined and imprisoned? The question gave Jefferson a perfect opening. "Put that paper in your pocket, Baron, and should you hear the reality of our liberty, the freedom of our press, questioned, show this paper, and tell where you found it.”
“Baroque civilization believed in two truths, which for a post-18th-century mindset are exclusive truths - we have to eliminate one to believe the other. They believed in the rational exploration of the universe, and they also believed that there was a hidden spiritual truth. Baroque thinkers were able to live the two at the same time. In any case, for me, it's necessary to live that way also.”
“Baroque sculpture and interior design has a quality of creating an environment that seems organic because it's full of curves and details, like a forest.”
“Barqi: La estética es sólo la forma más inferior de percibir lo Real.”
Source: The Way of the Sufi
“Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.”
Source: The House of the Spirits