B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon”
“Bright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end.”
Source: The Scottish Chiefs, etc
“Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps
Followed each other till a dreary moor
Was crossed, a bare ridge clomb, upon whose top
Standing alone, as from a rampart's edge,
I overlooked the bed of Windermere,
Like a vast river, stretching in the sun.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
“Bright yellow lemons twinkled in the twilight sun on a terrace tree, and far beyond my window, San Francisco lay, flat like a pastel toy.”
Source: Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir
“Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.”
“Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial All the time it's a changing, like now.”
“Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray
“Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,The source of motion.”
“Brighten someone's by adding a spoon full of kindness.”
“Brighten the corner where you are. You don’t blame God for placing you in a dark corner… You rather have to thank him for giving you the light to make it bright!”
Source: Leaders' Watchwords
“Brighten up the world like a little sunbeam.”
Source: Going Postal
“Brighten your Love Light, allow your inner glow to reveal itself to the world.”
Source: Metamorphosis A Journey of the Soul
“Brighten your picture! Refuse to be blurred; agree to be bright!”
Source: Dream big!: See your bigger picture!
“Brighter days lie ahead; let patience guide you, and trust what unfolds.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Brighter students, in particular, can have difficulty in this way—their breezing through high school leaves them no reason to think that being confused is normal and necessary. But the learning process is all about working your way out of confusion.”
“Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved.”
Source: Selected Poems of Amy Lowell
“Brighter than Parian marble.”
Source: The Odes of Horace, Translated by J. Scriven
“Brightest and best of the sons of the morning,
Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid.
Star of the east the horizon adorning,
Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.”
Source: The poetical works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok
“Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl.”
Source: The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.
“Brightly burning passion is the releasing of your essence, your specialness and your gifts to the world.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Brightness...I believe you stray into sarcasm."
"Funny.I thought I'd run straight into it,screaming at the top of my lungs.”
Source: The Way of Kings
“Brightness Markal! What a disaster that hairstyle is; how brave of you to show it to the world”
Source: The Way of Kings
“Brightness of day always end with the darkness of Night”
“Brighton gives me the heebie-jeebies. When I'm near the seafront I can't sleep, I can't eat.”
“Brighton has two universities. It's got a massive young, middle-class community, and the largest gay community in the UK. The result of which is a huge recreational drug market. It's the favoured place to live in the UK for first division criminals.”
“Brighton is a beautiful seaside city, but it's got a dark underbelly.”
“Brightpaw's eye opened and she fixed a cloudy gaze on Fireheart. "What happened?" he repeated. "What did this?" A thin wailing came from Brightpaw, which gradually formed into words. Fireheart stared at her in horror as he made out what she was trying to say. "Pack, pack," she whispered. "Kill, kill.”
“Brigid couldn't help but be charmed by this clever girl, with her baby doll freckles and wild red curls. She'd clearly inherited all the best of the Duncan clan. Sadie's energy, Rose's warmth, Ivy's optimism, her mother's beauty. According to the last report filed by Brigid's private investigator, Sybil worked three lunch shifts a week at a soup kitchen in her neighborhood. She fed a colony of feral cats near the Brooklyn waterfront and picked up trash in Prospect Park.”
Source: The Women of Wild Hill
“Brigid O'Shaughnessy: “I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.”
Sam Spade “You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere”
Source: The Maltese Falcon
“Brigid: I haven't lived a good life - I've been bad, worse than you could know.
Spade: That's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere.”
“Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that.”
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
“Brihad Aranyaka Upanishad mentioned ‘Ekoham Bahusyam’ (I was alone then become many). But this is merely a theory of the creation of the universe, which is fundamentally wrong. Actually it is the esoteric condition of a human body – merely yogic phenomenon. The creation exists as it was, it was eternal.”
“Brilhais como estrelas no Universo.”
Source: All the Bright Places
“Brillar, a pesar de los daños.”
Source: Vida
“Brillat-Savarin, said: ‘Tell me what you eat and I’ll tell you who you are.’ He had it wrong. It’s not just what we eat that shows who we are, it’s what we buy but don’t eat that says more about the people we think we are. Or want to be. Look at the ingredients in your cupboards. All those hopes and dreams.”
Source: A Summer at the Castle
“Brilliance and intelligence begins when you have conquered your mind for if one can conquer his or her mind he or she has conquered reality for that which we think we become and that which we become makes us legends of today and tomorrow.”
“Brilliance doesn’t compete for attention. It earns respect.”
Source: Your Business Venture: The Prep. The Pitch. The Funding.
“Brilliance has no bargaining power without trust, but bizarrely, incompetence very much does when it is overshadowed by strong trust.”
Source: The Trust Economy: Building strong networks and realising exponential value in the digital age
“Brilliance in a scientist does not consist in being right more often but in being wrong about more interesting topics.”
“Brilliance is impossible without a touch of insanity.”
Source: Your Guardian Angel
“Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.”
“Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Brilliance some are born with it, but others create it over time. It lightens the foulest of hearts and pierces the darkest of nights to lead us on the right path of our future destinies.”
“Brilliance without prayer is like a car with four flat tires. It might be a truly fine vehicle, but it isn’t going anywhere.”
“Brilliant answer," he said.
"I said nothing."
"Your best answer yet.”
Source: Black Leopard, Red Wolf
“Brilliant beautiful language but ... it's not interesting to me. It's too easy, if you get my drift. Goodness is really, truly hard. You can't seduce it. So writing and trying to find language for it has been probably all I have ever done.”
“Brilliant ideas are gifts from God, sent to you in answer to your prayers . . . and all you need to do is act upon the ideas, one divinely guided step at a time. If you want to validate if an idea is truly heavensent, ask your angels to send you clear signs.”
“Brilliant landing.. We´re trying to keep a low profile, and here you´ve gone and made it look like a meteorite hit.”
“Brilliant lecturers shouldn't be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear onTV. We need black market universities, in which people just help each other, and which don't leave out the poor.”
“Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.”
Source: The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done