B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Beyonce, to me, doesn't have a f--king 'Purple Rain', but she's the biggest thing on Earth. How can you be that big without at least one 'Sweet Home Alabama' or 'Old Time Rock & Roll'? People are like, 'Beyonce's hot. Got a nice f--king ass.' I'm like, 'Cool, I like skinny white chicks with big t--s.' Doesn't really f--king do much for me.”
“Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen.”
“Beyoncé built her f–king foundation from the bottom. I think that’s the exact career every female artist wants to have.”
“Beyoncé can handle any record you put in front of her. Any record that pushes her in that direction, it would have been good to be on the project.”
“Beyoncé: COWBOY CARTER TOUR
Mon Jul 7 at 7:00pm · Northwest Stadium, Landover, MD”
Source: PODCAST PLANNER
“Beyoncé don't get a lot of leaks. She just has a very tight control. Most of the time, that's generally not the case, but I pretty much follow her direction.”
“Beyoncé is musically why I do what I do. She's an inspiration, she's incredible. I just love her.”
“Beyoncé means so much to me. Throughout my transition, Beyoncé has been there as a style icon, an example of excellence, of beauty, of vulnerability. She's shared so much of herself, and it's inspiring.”
“Beyoncé says it was Mathew Knowles, her father, who made her understand discipline and work ethic, what it means to come in early before class starts to stretch, or to work on your dégagés or your pirouettes or whatever it was. I was a turner! So to come in early and then to stay afterward and to just soak up everything that the teacher has, that's really what it's about - the striving for excellence.”
“Beyoncé spins her own bittersweet narratives into art. “I’ma rain, I’ma rain on this bitter love/Tell the sweet I’m new,” she sings on “Freedom.”
As bell hooks writes of Beyoncé’s Lemonade in her essay “Moving Beyond Pain,” to be truly free, we must choose beyond simply surviving adversity, we must dare to create lives of sustained optimal well-being and joy. In that world, the making and drinking of lemonade will be a fresh and zestful delight, a real life mixture of the bitter and the sweet, and not a measure of our capacity to endure pain, but rather a celebration of our moving beyond pain.”
If Will Cotton’s paintings—- resplendent with pure, idealized fantasy—- are the sweetness we lazily dream of, Walker’s A Subtlety is the sweetness we actually live: rearing up through centuries of hurt and exploitation, planting its feet in the good and the bad, the pleasure and the pain. It crystallizes across the surfaces of our imperfect lives, and makes us shine.”
Source: The Best American Food Writing 2019
“Beyoncé's like, 'Okay. The singing is great. But you're not having any fun.' She's like, 'Remember when we were at Jay's concert and Panjabi MC comes on and you do your crazy Indian dance? Do that. Be you!'”
“Beyond 100,000 lines of code, you should probably be coding in Ada.”
“Beyond [Barack Obama] having made history as the first African-American president, I hope that he gets re-elected for what he does while in office, not for his skin color. I certainly believe he has the capacity.”
“Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and caves, and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each other. They cannot be considered human beings.”
“Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.”
Source: Life After God
“Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.”
Source: The collected aphorisms
“Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy.”
Source: Outlaw Mountain: A Joanna Brady Mystery
“Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.”
“Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.”
Source: The Widow's Son
“Beyond a certain speed, motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all and shrink them for only a few. A new dirt road through the wilderness brings the city within view, but not within reach, of most Brazilian subsistence farmers. The new expressway expands Chicago, but it sucks those who are well-wheeled away from a downtown that decays into a ghetto.”
Source: Energy and Equity
“Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.”
Source: Dune Messiah: The Second Dune Novel
“Beyond a critical speed, no one can save time without forcing another to lose it. The man who claims a seat in a faster vehicle insists that his time is worth more than that of the passenger in a slower one. Beyond a certain velocity, passengers become consumers of other people’s time, and accelerating vehicles become the means for effecting a net transfer of life-time.”
Source: Energy and Equity
“Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Beyond a doubt, they perish eternally who do not keep the Catholic faith entire and unchanged.”
“Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art.”
“Beyond a shadow of a doubt, some associates are nothing but shadow friends. When adversities cast shadow over us they stop pretending and become their real selves.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Beyond a thin veil of space stretched Existence, the frailest and most imbalanced reality of the cosmos. No one was really sure why it was imbalanced, but some believed it had something to do with the general alcohol consumption per capita.”
Source: The Weaver of Odds
“Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”
Source: Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life
“Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.”
Source: Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life
“Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.”
Source: Aeschylus II: The Oresteia
“Beyond all crucifix and calculus, Love is the only cosmic education.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Beyond all experience is the one who is experiencing. Beyond all change is the One who never changes.”
“Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, why hate rather than love, why greed and not generosity, why self-centred activity and not open total action? Why be mean when there are soaring mountains and flashing streams? Why jealousy and not love? Why?”
Source: Krishnamurti's Notebook
“Beyond all judgments of good and bad ...is perfection - Vivian Amis”
Source: The Lotus - Realization of Oneness
“Beyond all limit of what else i' the world
Do love, prize, honour you.”
Source: The Tempest
“Beyond all of this is something else, perfection; not just as an ideation, but as a living reality. Even though it may just be an idea for you, hold that idea in your mind.”
“Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?”
Source: The Common Sense of Science
“Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.”
“Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.”
Source: Killosophy
“Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.”
Source: The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel
“Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.”
“Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.”
“Beyond any human lifetime, and often even within it, what is recorded is what is remembered, the records gradually displacing the actuality of lived events. And what is recorded is a fraction of what is thought, felt, acted out, lived—a fraction at best edited by the very act of its selection, at worst warped by rationalization or fictionalized by a deliberate retelling of reality. The stories we tell about our own lives, to others but especially to ourselves, we tell in order to make our lives livable.”
Source: Figuring
“Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.”
“Beyond any technique, relationships are what heal.”
Source: Coyote Healing: Miracles in Native Medicine
“Beyond aspects of pain that are physical, thought Oppenheimer, sickness or injury or privation, beyond the so-called obvious, suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless and undiscovered, song of frustrated want, silence after desire. It can be the test of the self falling short, constrained, distorted, disturbed or rebuffed, the vacuum left by longing, call without an answer.”
Source: Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
“Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.”
“Beyond being Jewish, I've always found myself to be very much in tune with spirituality.”
“Beyond blood and border begins human life, beyond curves and clothes begins character.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“Beyond Bookchin”, David Watson, of Fifth Estate, argues that aboriginal society represents a viable Utopia. He quotes favourably the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins; “We are inclined to think of hunters and gatherers as poor because they don’t have anything, perhaps better to think of them for that reason as free.”