B Quotes
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“Bill Steward was nudged to the edge of sanity and peered down into the bottomless black abyss of insanity.”
Source: Billy's Experiment: An Old Castle Novel
“Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.”
“Bill walked slowly to Cara's dressed and leaned on the edge, folding his arms as the pine creaked under his weight. Even the furniture feared this man.”
Source: Alienated
“Bill Walton is incredible. If you drop a toothpick on his foot, he'll have a stress fracture.”
“Bill Walton, UH Volleyball coach, after his player kept looking at him on the bench every time the ball hit the floor...Next time you look at me I'll put you on the bench where you can see me better. My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they are popular. You make them because they are right.”
“Bill was wrestling with his undercooked chicken. "Wow," I remarked while examining my own plate. "I don't think I can eat this."
"I know. It's gross," he conceded. "But it's free, so I scarf down seconds each night."
"As a dog returneth to his vomit," I said, while making the sign of the cross in the air in front of me.
"Amen," he agreed with his mouth full, and toasted me with his 7Up can.”
Source: Lab Girl
“Bill Wilson’s experience normalized the idea that a spiritual awakening could happen outside of traditional religion. AA meetings became sacred spaces for raw vulnerability, confession, and spiritual transformation—without clergy, sacraments, or hierarchy. Bill’s white light moment shattered the funhouse. It didn’t make him holy; it made him honest.”
Source: The Son of Man & Its Mystical Awakening: Reclaiming Eschatology & Atonement During a Convergence of Globalization, Nihilism, Science, & Spirituality
“Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.”
“Bill Withers, Van Morrison and Marvin Gaye are pioneers in popular music for the last century, and these are people who have influenced me as well, so it's pretty flattering. I've got a long way to go to reach anywhere near what those guys have done. But it's a good encouragement.”
“Bill, don’t look at me — I’m ’ideous.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs.”
“Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.”
“Billboards Build Freedom of Choice
Yegtit?
Look See.
AMERICA BUILDS BILLBOARDS
so billboards kin bill freedoma choice
between-yeah between billbores no
WAIT
its yedoan hafta chose no more between
say like trees and billbores lessa course
wenna buncha trees is flattint out inta
BILLB-
yeah yegotit
youkin pick between well
hey! see! like dat!
ALL VYNIL GET WELL DOLLS $6.98
or-watch wasdat comin up?
PREPAID CAT?
PREPAID CATASTOPHE COVERAGE
yeah hell youkin have damnear anythin
FREE 48 INCH TV IN EVERY ROOM
see! or watchit!
OUR PIES TASTE LIKE MOTHERS
yeah but look bud no chickenin out
because billbores build
AM-
yeah an AMERICA BUILDS MORE
buildbores to build more-
sure yougotta! yugotta have
FREEDOM TO
hey!...”
Source: One Muddy Hand: Selected Poems
“Billboards, billboards, drink this, eat that, use all manner of things, everyone, the best, the cheapest, the purest and most satisfying of all their available counterparts. Red lights flicker on every horizon, airplanes beware; cars flash by, more lights. Workers repair the gas main. Signs, signs, lights, lights, streets, streets.”
“Billie Holiday I never met, but I love her music.”
“Billie Holiday's voice was the voice of living intensity of soul in the true sense of that greatly abused word.”
“Billie Jean was a negative dance song, and that was one of the best dance songs ever.”
“Billie laughed at that, full and throaty, and once again she became so incandescently beautiful that George was half-tempted to throw a blanket over her, just to stop anyone else from wanting her.”
Source: Because of Miss Bridgerton
“Billie was hoping to get these two alive but was feeling rapidly less stuck on the idea.”
Source: The War Widow
“Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.”
Source: Stories of Waterloo. By W. H. Maxwell
“Billings pulled a roll from a compartment in his cargo pants leg. We gawked at him in disbelief. He shrugged. "What? You never know when you're going to need duct tape.”
Source: Revolution
“Billion-Dollar Grave (The Sonnet)
All our life we work hard to buy golden chains.
With which we then bind ourselves.
What's the point of living as fancy slaves?
What will we do with our billion-dollar graves?
We sit on our couch covering our eyes,
Then we yell, why everything is so very dark!
But no one hears for they are also shouting,
Praying for a messiah to bring back life's spark.
We've forged fascist fences out of all our gold,
And have placed them as walls around us.
Then we shout out - help, help,
And beg to be saved by the universe!
Greed of dollar is the toxic mold on the green of life.
Life flourishes on moderation, not consumerist strife.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“Billion dollar scams are not the only scam, a dollar worth of greed is also crime.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“Billionaire investors know they're going to be wrong, so they have a plan to protect against wrong.”
“Billionaire-ism is a curable illness.”
Source: They Could Be Saviors: A Near Future Climate Thriller about Billionaires, Psychedelics, and Power
“Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.”
“Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government.”
“Billionaires think that anything goes, are enamored of geoengineering, and detest nothing so much as simple but unpleasant solutions (such as paying taxes and living quietly).”
Source: Capital and Ideology
“Billionaires’ working hours are twenty-four seven. They don’t wait till Monday.”
Source: To Marry a Prince
“Billions and billions.”
Source: Carl Sagan: a life
“Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.”
“Billions of dollars have been lost to the Negro race within the last fifty years through disloyalty on the part of successful Negroes, who have preferred to give away their fortunes to members of other races, than to bequeath them to worthy institutions and movements of their own to help their own people.”
Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans
“Billions of dollars of grant money [over $50 billion] are flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon. No man-made global warming, the money dries up. This is big money, make no mistake about it. Always follow the money trail and it tells a story.”
“Billions of dollars, trying unsuccessfully to keep drugs out of the world’s most porous border? One-tenth of the anti-drug budget going into education and treatment, nine-tenths of those billions into interdiction? And not enough money from anywhere going into the root causes of the drug problem itself. And the billions spent keeping drug offenders locked up in prison, the cells now so crowded we have to give early release to murderers. Not to mention the fact that two-thirds of all the “non-drug” offenses in America are committed by people high on dope or alcohol. And our solutions are the same futile non-solutions—build more prisons, hire more police, spend more and more billions of dollars not curing the symptoms while we ignore the disease. Most people in my area who want to kick drugs can’t afford to get into a treatment program unless they have blue-chip health insurance, which most of them don’t. And there’s a six-month-to-two-year waiting list to get a bed in a subsidized treatment program. We’re spending almost $2 billion poisoning cocaine crops and kids over here, while there’s no money at home to help someone who wants to get off drugs. It’s insanity.”
Source: The Power of the Dog
“Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.”
Source: Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
“Billions of dreams die off every year. I believe yours will not be part of that proportion if only you are ready to shape them!”
Source: Shaping the dream
“Billions of people are living on the earth today with the knowledge of mathematics, physics, and biology. They have the knowledge of stocks market, the knowledge of politics, engineering, law, and medicine. They know about fashion, sports, arts, music and a lot more other aspects of life. However, the sad reality is that a greater percentage of these people do not know who they are nor why they exist. They do not know for what purpose they are on the earth and where they are heading”
Source: YOUR POTENTIALS - THE SOURCE OF YOUR GREATNESS: ….Secrets to unleashing your full potentials and achieving greater heights in life.
“Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.”
“Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.”
“Billions of people will come and go in this world, but there will never be another like you.”
Source: Champion
“Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal, instantly recognizable visual style. In the early nineties, Wolfgang Tillmans did just that, transforming himself into a new kind of artist-photographer of modern life.”
“Billions of stars will lose it's fuel from the brightness of the only face, the guest of your heart,
The beauty of your soul.”
“Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.”
“Billions of years ago God was creating universes and life; thousands of years ago he was creating angry floods, sin-saving human sacrifices and audible burning bushes. Today he occasionally appears on a piece of toast. To state that God has become reclusive over the years would be an overwhelming understatement.”
Source: How to Prove God Does Not Exist: The Complete Guide to Validating Atheism
“Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are.”
“Billions of years from now our sun, then a distended red giant star, will have reduced Earth to a charred cinder. But the Voyager record will still be largely intact, in some other remote region of the Milky Way galaxy, preserving a murmur of an ancient civilization that once flourished — perhaps before moving on to greater deeds and other worlds — on the distant planet Earth.”
“Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.”
“Bills are simply invoices for blessings you've already received. Pay them with gratitude and circulate prosperity.”
“Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“Bills should be paid cheerfully, all money should be sent forth fearlessly and with a blessing.”
Source: The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much Mor