B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Betsy DeVos is not the most informed person on education policy, but I have seen her present a few times, and she presents as a pretty respectable, intelligent person who has cared passionately about education and cares about charter schools.”
“Betsy DeVos, for example, has shown that she’s flatly ignorant of an astounding amount of basic education policy. It might be possible to persuade two or three Republicans to oppose her on these grounds - but only if the entire confirmation process isn’t a pure partisan battle.”
“Betsy doesn't keep beautiful things to herself. I've learned from her that a pretty thing isn't worth much if you can't share it with anyone. It's just a thing. Only when you let others enjoy it, too, does it become beautiful”
Source: Vintage
“Betsy dreamed about going away from Deep Valley, but she didn't for a moment suspect that around a bend in her Winding Hall of Fate a journey was actually waiting.”
Source: Betsy in Spite of Herself
“Betsy felt happy, delicious, emptied of trouble.”
Source: Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill
“Betsy hadn't had sex, actual; sex-sex, full sex, in two hundred and fifty-three days. She decided on her thirty-seventh birthday that she wouldn't sleep with anyone unless it was in the context of a committed relationship which had some sort of future, and she was only gradually coming to the realization of what happens when a woman her age makes a decision like that: she never has sex again.”
Source: Secrets To Happiness
“Betsy liked to read her stories aloud and she read them like an actress. She made her voice low and thrillingly deep. She made it shake with emotion. She laughed mockingly and sobbed wildly when the occasion required.”
Source: Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
“Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.”
“Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith's trunk. Behind Tacy's house the sun had set. A wind had sprung up and the trees, their color dimmed, moved under a brooding sky. All the stories she had told Tacy and Tib seemed to be dancing in those trees, along with all the stories she planned to write some day and all the stories she would read at the library. Good stories. Great stories. The classics. Not Rena's novels.”
Source: Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
“Betsy: "You bring nothing but trouble!"
Fantomex: "Forgive me if this has inconvenienced your plans for afternoon tea, Miss Braddock. Cyborgs killed my mother and stole from me.”
Source: Uncanny X-Force, Vol. 2: Deathlok Nation
“Betsy: You gentlemen stand around and look tough while I do an astral reconnaissance.
Fantomex: I confess to feeling inferior in the company of such a gifted telepath. But for you, Warren, to be so.. dependent. It must be emasculating.
Warren: Oh yeah, it's a real hardship. Worst part is all the sex it leads to. Terrible stuff to endure.”
Source: Uncanny X-Force, Vol. 2: Deathlok Nation
“Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe.”
“Bett didn't have any siblings because she said her father had preserved what was dead for too long to be able to create life. When Bet was younger and had begged for one, her father gave her a marmot he' stuffed for a man from Wyoming.
"This is your brother Christopher," he'd said, placing the marmot on Bett's pillow one night. "He doesn't talk much, so you'll have to pick up the slack there.”
Source: The Bird Sisters
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“Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them.”
“Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" .”
“Bette Davis had very strong opinions and was not afraid to express them. She wasn't afraid of anything that I ever saw. And she was so funny. She's just funny and she was laughing all the time.”
“Bette Davis in All About Eve was huge for me. Her acting was staggering.”
“Bette Davis lived long enough to hear the Kim Carnes song, 'Bette Davis Eyes'. The lyrics to that song were not very interesting. But the fact of the song was the proof of an acknowledgement that in the twentieth century we lived through an age of immense romantic personalities larger than life, yet models for it, too - for good or ill. Like twin moons, promising a struggle and an embrace, the Davis eyes would survive her - and us. Kim Carnes has hardly had a consistent career, but that one song - sluggish yet surging, druggy and dreamy - became an instant classic. It's like the sigh of the islanders when they behold their Kong. And I suspect it made the real eyes smile, whatever else was on their mind.”
Source: Bette Davis
“Bette Davis taught Hollywood to follow an actress instead of the actress following the camera, and she's probably the best movie actress there's ever been.”
“Bette Davis, she was so brilliant and one of my heroes, but she worked a ton, and then she didn't get All About Eve [1950] until the last minute. Claudette Colbert was supposed to be Margo Channing, but then she broke her back and couldn't do it. That allowed Davis to play her age.”
“Bette Midler can say four-letter words and make you love it.”
“Better a bad excuse, than none at all.”
Source: Remaines concerning Britaine: Their Languages, Names, Surnames ...
“Better a bald head than none at all.”
“Better a bare foote then none.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Better a barefoot than none.”
Source: The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...
“Better a broken heart than a hardened one.”
“Better a broken promise than none at all.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.”
“Better a change than an end.”
Source: S.
“Better a character out of shape, than a shape without character.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“Better a character without fancy clothes than fancy clothes without character.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.”
Source: The works of John Ruskin
“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Better a crust of black bread than a mountain of paper confections,
Better a daisy in earth than a dahlia cut and gathered,
Better a cowslip with root than a prize carnation without it”
Source: The Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough
“Better a curse from God than a blessing from Satan.”
“Better a day too early than a day too late”
Source: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
“Better a days catch of fish than a lifetime of crabs.”
“Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.”
“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”
“Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and rich spiced wine of which the cost is frequently mentioned by the provider.”
Source: The Celestial Omnibus
“Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.”
Source: The Invention of Love
“Better a false belief than no belief at all.”
Source: Daniel Deronda
“Better a fool chosen by the people than a sage thrust upon them by tradition.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“Better a friend to all his weight in gold.”
Source: Zori 2ª Parte
“Better a good enemy than a bad friend.”
“Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.”
Source: Three Plays: Tr. from the French by Lionel Abel
“Better a holy discord than a profane concord.”
Source: An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter
“Better a kindhearted fool than a heartless tool.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.”
Source: The Broken Sword