B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Bubbles. On a scale of one to ten, a bubble bath has to rank zero as far as things I'd expect an older-than-dirt-badass vampire to indulge in. The only thing that would surprise me more would be if you pulled out a rubber ducky. -Kira to Mencheres”
“Bubbly is bogus.”
Source: Pretties
“Buccal list: A list of food a person has never tried before but wants to taste during their lifetime.”
Source: Saint Richard Parker
“Buchan's less polemical evaluation of 1932, with its focus on the historical context of Scott's writing, recognised the author's virtues, but did little to change the narrative of his limitations. Beside the reminder that the author 'knew his native land as no Scotsman had ever known it before', the insight that Scott's popularity and its international extent 'has had a paralysing effect' on his critical study sounded no warning to critics determined to mark themselves separate from Scotland's supposed cultural and literary provincialism.”
Source: The International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature
“Buchstaben zu empfinden, sie nicht nur mit den Augen in Büchern zu lesen, - einen Dolmetsch in mir selbst aufzustellen, der mir übersetzt, was die Instinkte ohne Worte raunen, darin muß der Schlüssel liegen, sich mit dem eigenen Innern durch klare Sprache zu verständigen, begriff ich.”
Source: The Golem
“Buchstabensuppe
Ein Frühlingsgedicht,
eine Räubergeschicht'
schwammen lose
in einer Soße.
Sabine war alles schnuppe.
Sie löffelte sich in den Hals
das Frühlingsgedicht,
die Räubergeschicht',
den Fußballbericht,
die ganze Buchstabensuppe.”
“Buck Barrow, brother of Clyde Barrow (Bonnie & Clyde) was once asked "Where are you wanted by the law?" Barrow replied, "Wherever I've been." What a picture of our own guilt. We cannot escape our sinfulness because it follows us everywhere. Neither can we escape the mercy of God that is always there.”
“Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.”
Source: Jack London Six Pack
“Buck Rogers, I believe, is an illegitimate child of Galactica. I only hope Galactica won't turn in its grave.”
“Buck up, baby blowfish. Just puff up bigger than your sadness and scare it right off. That's the only way to live in the awful old ocean.”
Source: Radiance
“Buck up or stay in the truck.”
“Bucket filling is in the eye of the bucket holder, not the bucket filler. Fill their buckets with things that are important to them ... not you.”
“Bucket lists are supposed to be about doing things you've always dreamt about not torturing yourself.”
Source: The Bucket List to Mend a Broken Heart
“Bucket may contain some ocean water, not the entire ocean. Your mind can contain theories and stories about gods, not the actual gods.”
“Buckethead [former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist] is probably twice as good a guitar player as me and Slash combined, and can stand having fried chicken rubbed up against his face all night for a couple of hours.”
“Bucketing your time or your tasks keeps you in the zone.”
Source: The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave Female Entrepreneur
“Buckingham palace is not a noble home, it's the national zoo of England, where they coddle massacre 'n stagnation, with no civil initiative for atonement.”
Source: Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations
“Buckley and Vidal were both stand-ins for what was happening on the streets of Chicago and the streets of America. I mean, they're representing these two different camps that are at war in the streets. And they're at war with their words. And each was looking for a knockout.”
“Buckmester County was in a time warp.”
Source: Mirusia
“Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on. He liked to point out that for the honey bee, it is the honey that is important. But the bee is at the same time nature's vehicle for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers. Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature. Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others.”
“Buckminster Fuller, the discoverer/inventor of the geodesic dome, at age thirty-two contemplated suicide for a few hours one night at the edge of Lake Michigan, as the story goes, after a series of business failures that left him feeling he had made such a mess of his life that the best move would be for him to remove himself from the scene and make things simpler for his wife and daughter. Apparently everything he had touched or undertaken had turned to dust in spite of his incredible creativity and imagination, which were only recognized later. However, instead of ending his life, Fuller decided (perhaps because of his deep conviction in the underlying unity and order of the universe, of which he knew himself to be an integral part) to live from then on as if he had died that night.
Being dead, he wouldn't have to worry about how things worked out any longer for himself personally and would be free to devote himself to living as a representative of the universe. The rest of his life would be a gift. Instead of living for himself, he would devote himself to asking, "what is it on this planet (which he referred to as Spaceship Earth) that needs doing that I know something about, that probably won't happen unless I take responsibility for it?”
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
“Buckminster Fuller was down in Pennsylvania, then he'd come up and go to his island in Maine. He wanted to remain a New Englander. He taught from '48 to '49 and '50 at Black Mountain College. That's where he met Kenneth Snelson. Fuller kind of stayed a Yankee right in the New England area. So it was pretty easy to get him to come on over, and we would have lectures at the Harvard Science Center.”
“Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.”
“Bucky did the things I couldn’t. I was the icon. I wore the flag… But while I gave speeches to troops in the trenches… He was doing what he’d been trained to do… and he was highly trained.”
Source: Captain America: Winter Soldier - Ultimate Collection
“Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.”
“Bucuriile premature ne împiedică să ne realizăm”
“Bucuriile tot copiii ţi le dau. Îi vezi cum cresc de cînd deschid ochii, cum se tîrăsc de-a buşilea, cum încep a sta copăcel şi apoi merg ca omul, în două picioare, cum se ridică pînă la genunchi, mai sus de genunchi, cum trec de la gîngăvit la vorbă, la înţelegere. Nu bagi de seamă cum curge vremea, te pomeneşti cu ei gogeamite rumânii... Omul care nu prăseşte copii, de ce mai vieţuieşte? E ca pomul fără rod pe care-l tai din rădăcină şi-l arunci la uscături...”
Source: پابرهنهها
“Bud [Yorkin] broke out big when he did 'The Fred Astaire Show' and won four Emmys. His wife at the time suggested that we team up. We got a lot of press in show business papers, and a number of offers...we eventually signed with Paramount Pictures. But I always like to say, his was the horse that we rode in on. That is my favorite recollection.”
“Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.”
“Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.”
“Bud Light....the perfect beer for marketers about to lose their job.”
“Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.”
“Bud, my self-defense and combat skills teacher, was still trying to get me to learn knife fighting. "Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to nearly all paranormals!" "Tasey!" I countered. "Hot pink and sparkly!”
“Buda dice...
«Hay dos errores
que puedes cometer
en tu senda a la verdad:
no hacer todo el camino
y no empezarlo nunca».”
Source: Pulsaciones
“Budak-budak mentah dan orang tua berusia, kadang kala, kurang ajarnya sama sahaja.”
Source: Dentang
“Budala insan cennetinde hiç sıkılmayacağını sanır! Hâlbuki insanı sıkan aslında aynı mekâna, aynı şeylere saplanmaktır!”
“Budalaları budala bir öğretmenle eğitmeye çalışmak, kirli elbiseleri kirli bir suda yıkamaktan başka bir şey değildir!”
“Budapest in late May is a city of lilacs. The sweet, languid, rather sleepy smell of lilacs wafts everywhere. And it is a city of lovers, many of them quite middle-aged. Walking with their arms around each other, embracing and kissing on park benches. A sensuousness very much bound up (it seems to me) with the heady ubiquitous smell of lilacs.”
Source: (Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities
“Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.”
“Budaya bukan saja sesuatu yang kuno dan tradisional. Budaya adalah sesuatu yang organik. Setiap lagu baru, pakaian jenis baru, film baru, cerita yang baru... semua itu adalah hasil budaya. Budaya itu hidup dan terus berkembang.”
Source: Man's Defender
“Budaya tidak pernah berakhir, selalu ada yang baru. Selalu ada bentuk kesenian yang baru, gerak tari, lagu, lukisan. Budaya adalah kisah tanpa akhir...”
Source: Man's Defender
“Budaya toleransi dan patuh hukum adalah proses belajar. Kita harus jaga itu untuk kejayaan anak cucu.”
“Buddah says once you understand that you are lost and you have to find your own way and there is no help coming, you become responsible. Prayer is irresponsible. To pray is just to avoid responsibility, to pray is to be lazy. To pray is just an escape. Buddha says effort is needed. It is an insult to pray.”
“Buddha activity doesn't mean radiating light and elevating yourself up a thousand feet in the air. That's not the point. The point is, as Zen is always saying - and Tibetans understand this also very well - every activity becomes perfect Buddha activity.”
“Buddha also said that the Dharma, like a bird, needs two wings to fly, and that the wing that balances Wisdom is compassion.”
Source: Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness
“Buddha and Christ were second-rate heroes. The greatest men that ever live pass away unknown. They put forth no claims for themselves, establish no schools or systems in their name. They never create any stir but just melt down in love.”
“Buddha and Jesus meditated on love, which is the lowest or the base of humanity. Nietzsche and Machiavelli meditated on Power as the true virtue of living. Socrates, Plato and his descendants meditated on Knowledge or Wisdom as the truest virtue to be sought in life.”
“Buddha became buddha
Because he didn't want to be anyone else
Yourself is waiting to be expressed
Be more, not less
Get individualised... get #Mickeymized!”
“Buddha became buddha
because he didn't want to become anyone else
Why become some else and waste it
When you can become yourself and taste it
Being initialised... becoming #Mickeymized!”
“Buddha called himself 'The Enlightened One' and Jesus called himself 'The Son of God'. To me the term 'World-Teacher' is of as little importance as 'The Son of God' or 'The Enlightened One'.”