B Quotes
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“Bump stood in the middle of the room, wrapped in a heavy fur coat, with a black silk top hatcovering his fuzzy head and unnecessary sunglasses hiding his pale face. He looked like the Abominable Snowpimp.”
Source: Unholy Ghosts
“Bumping airplane passengers off flights for silly reasons is how some airlines boost their profits!”
“Bumps are the things we climb on.”
“Bumps in the road help in awakening the bird sleeping inside the car.”
“Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.”
Source: American Letters: 1927-1947
“BUNAHAN
When the last speaker of Boro
falls silent,
who will notice
the first-grown feather
of a bird’s wing? (gansuthi)
or feel how far pretending
to love (onsay) is
from loving
for the last time (onsra)?
Quiet and uneasy, in an
unfamiliar place (asusu)
no one sees her, or listens;
there is less of her
than there was.
The last speaker feels
Boro’s world fall apart,
knowledge unravels:
healing plants go
unseen; the bodies of animals
are unreadable.
With a last thought, onguboy
(to love it all, from the heart),
she leaves fragments
of the world she held in place.
We touch their husks,
about to speak and
about not to speak
(bunhan, bunahan);
awash in loss,
incomplete.
Note:
The italicized words are from Boro, an endangered language still spoken in parts of northern India. For more on this story, see Mark Abley’s Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages.”
“Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean—so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.”
“Bunca zaman okuduğu kitaplar her şeye rağmen nasıl ayakta kalınır ve dünyaya nasıl tahammül edilir onu öğütlüyordu. Fakat o ruhen haylaz, şımarık ve uslanmaz bir çocuktu. Hiçbir öğüt ve yol göstermeye sadık kalamamıştı. Hayranı olduğu tüm büyük yazarların dediklerine katılıyor, ama sözlerini uygulayamıyor ve sıkılıyordu. Onun için doğrular acı gerçeklere dönüşüyor ve gerçekler hep can sıkıyordu. Bir hayalciydi ve gerçekler hayalcilerin en azılı katiliydi. (...) Hayallerine tapıyordu! Bir hayalperest gerçeklerle kuşatıldığında kaçmak isterdi. Kimi düşlere dalarak, kimi kendini uyuşturarak, kimi de günün sonunda canına kıyarak yapardı bunu. İkinci ve üçüncü seçenek birbiriyle kardeşti. Süreci uzatmak isteyenlerin işiydi uyuşturucular. O ise bu zamana kadar ölecekse hep “şu anda” ölmeyi dilediği için süreci uzatmak ve uyuşmak seçeneğine hiç adım atmamıştı. Adım atmadıkça yaşamış, yaşadıkça sıkılmış, adeta hapsolmuştu dünyaya.”
Source: Yalnızlaşan İnsan
“Bunce films them. So Joey who came out of one porn film would go into another. It could fuck up the whole space-time continuum. They could prosecute us.”
“For?”
“Meta-fiction in the first degree?”
Source: Looking After Joey
“Bunch of Quotes …
Legend: #/ = page number
12/ Money as Archetype. The key point is that money must have power over us inwardly in order to have power in the world. We must believe in its value before we will change our conduct based on whether or not we will receive it. In the broadest sense, money becomes a vehicle of relationship. It enables us to make choices and cooperate with one another, it singlas what we will do with our energy.
16/ The Latin word moneta derives from the Indo-European root men-, which means to use one’s mind or think. The goddess Moneta is modeled on the Greek goddess of memory, Mnemosyne. Contained in the power to remember is the ability to warn, so Moneta is also considered to be a goddess who can give warnings. To suggest money can affect us in different ways we might remember that the Greek words menos (which means spirit, courage, purpose) and mania (which means madness) come from the same root as memory and Moneta. Measurement, from the Indo-European root me-, also relates to mental abilities and is a crucial aspect of money.
95/ [Crawford relates the experience of a friend], a mother, whose only son suffered from drug addiction. … At last she overcame her motherly instincts and refused him a place to stay and food and money. [She gave him a resources list for dealing with addiction.]
98/ Even an addition, according to psychologist C.G. Jung, a form of spiritual craving. Jung expressed this viewpoint in correspondence with Bill Wilson (Bill W), the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.
107/ The inner search is not a denial of our outer needs, but rather in part a way of learning the right attitudes and actions with which to deal with the outer world—including money and ownership.
114/ Maimonodes, Golden Ladder of Charity. [this list is from charitywatch.org]
Maimonides, a 12th century Jewish scholar, invented the following ladder of giving. Each rung up represents a higher degree of virtue:
1. The lowest: Giving begrudgingly and making the recipient feel disgraced or embarrassed.
2. Giving cheerfully but giving too little.
3. Giving cheerfully and adequately but only after being asked.
4. Giving before being asked.
5. Giving when you do not know who is the individual benefiting, but the recipient knows your identity.
6. Giving when you know who is the individual benefiting, but the recipient does not know your identity.
7. Giving when neither the donor nor the recipient is aware of the other's identity.
8. The Highest: Giving money, a loan, your time or whatever else it takes to enable an individual to be self-reliant.
129/ Remember as this myth unfolds [Persephone] that we are speaking of inheritance in the larger sense. What we inherit is not merely money and only received at death, but it is everything, both good and bad, that we receive from our parents throughout our lifetime. When we examine such an inheritance, some of what we receive will be truly ours and worthwhile to keep. The rest we must learn to surrender if we are to get on with our own lives.
133/ As so happens, the child must deal with what the parent refuses to confront.
146/ Whether the parent is alive or dead, the child may believe some flaw in the parent has crippled and limited the child’s life. To become attached to this point of view is damaging, because the child fails to take responsibility for his or her own destiny.”
“Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.”
Source: Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft
“Bunch was always a rescue of sorts...whether from the confusion and regret of a hangover, the intolerable presence of a roommate, or just the general despair of Saturdays.”
Source: Going Dutch
“Bunda adalah yang terhebat di dunia
sebab ia melahirkan kehidupan
dan memberi nyawa pada kata cinta.”
Source: Nadya: Kisah dari Negeri yang Menggigil
“Bunda,
engkau adalah puisi abadi
yang tak pernah kutemukan dalam buku...”
Source: Untuk Bunda dan Dunia
“Bunda,
engkaulah yang menuntunku ke jalan kupu-kupu...”
Source: Untuk Bunda dan Dunia
“Bundled up in my gloves, woolen thirteen-button bell-bottomed uniform pants, navy blue shirt and pea coat, with the flaps up, I negotiated the slippery steep incline of High Street. I knew that I was in Maine, known for adverse weather, but this was unreal. It was all I could do to hang onto this precious cargo with my cold fingers in my wet gloves, and put one foot in front of the other. Little by little, I made progress against the elements but, the longer it took to walk the distance, the more I looked like a snowman. Now the white stuff was getting heavier, and started to pile up. It stuck to my uniform, turning the dark blue to white. By the time I got as far as Congress Street, my feet and fingers were totally numb again, and my ears frozen. The box was getting heavier by the moment and I couldn’t even cover my ears with my hands. Finally I just put the box down into the snow, crouched down against a building, and pulled my pea coat over my head. Breathing into it, I managed to generate a little heat. I pressed the flaps of the coat against my ears until I could feel them again. Aside from my frozen feet, I warmed up enough this way to be able to continue. Picking up the box, I got up and once again faced the harsh elements. There was little sign of life, and with this cold wind, I could easily have gotten frostbite. Most people who lived in Maine had better sense than to be out under these arctic conditions. The plows had not cleared the streets yet, and behind me I could see a lone car spinning its wheels, trying in vain to make the steep grade. Once again I had to put down the box. I took off my gloves and tried to warm my hands by blowing onto them, as I did a little dance stomping my feet, but nothing helped anymore; my hands and feet were numb. When I picked the box up again, the bottom was caked with snow, making matters even worse! With only a short distance left I thought about Ann and the aroma from baking brownies, so I continued trudging on.
I could now see the statue of Longfellow, slouched in his massive chair. “Hi, Henry. What do you think of this glorious weather?” Not getting an answer, was answer enough. I was convinced that his bronze butt was frozen to the chair, but in spite of the weather, he still looked comfortable!”
“Bundy was correct in saying that most serial murderers are addicted to hardcore pornography. FBI records validate that point. Not every person exposed to obscenity will become a killer, of course, but too many will!”
Source: Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
“Bunga adalah cara Tuhan memberi hadiah kepada semua tumbuhan yang sabar.”
“Bungkus bisa beda, isi masih sama. Orang bisa berubah, tapi karakternya tetap.”
Source: Among the Pink Poppies
“Bungle is definitely a priority right now.”
“Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.”
“Bunica îmi zâmbește iar și iar dintre amintiri, împreună cu parfumul copilăriei. Cu dor de basme, tihnă și duminici albastre. Acolo unde morile își învârteau consistent paleții între adunări și scăderi, zâmbete și lacrimi, avându-și mereu partea de înțelegere deplină a universalității. Cuminte și senină precum strălucirea dimineților de vară.”
Source: Ochi de Poveste
“Bunkers provide safety but deprive you of the sunshine.”
Source: Quantraz
“Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started.”
Source: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
“Bunlar biz yetersiz olduğumuzdan başımıza gelmedi. Belki o, belki de biz hazır değildik.”
Source: Sanmasınlar Yıkıldık
“Bunlar, hayatın açtığı yaralardır" demişti dedem. "Hayatta yaralanmak, nefes almak kadar sıradandır. Yaralar iyileşir ama izleri kalır. Bu nedenle, kırışıkların olmadan yaşlanamazsın.”
Source: Küçük Antika Dükkânı
“Bunlar Tarih'in iyice tarihi hale geldiği yıllardır. Ya da histerik yıllar. On yıllara bedel yıllar vardır, bir asırdan daha ağır on yıllar vardır. Bir de zamansa koşulların ötesine geçip başka bir şeye; birer gezegene, koca birer evrene dönüşen devirler vardır.”
Source: Kensington Gardens
“Bunlardan nasıl bir ahlak dersi çıkarmalı? Barış, Rabbimiz tarafından ne kadar sevilse de, ancak komşularınız da sizin gibi vicdanlıysa esas erdemlerden biri sayılır.”
Source: Cloud Atlas
“Bunnu was no amateur when it came to escape. And even in his drowsiest moments, he understood implicitly that to forget his circumstances, even for a short while, meant first to forget himself. Who he was and why he was—to strip it all bare and start from scratch, as it were. In his nearly 250 years of life and, now, as an old emaciated man completely estranged from his family and closest friends—albeit more by circumstance than by choice—he understood the importance of this process and revered it, for there were far greater things to be done and achieved in the dark, uncertain areas of existence than in those circumscribed—and thereby strained—by comprehensibility.”
Source: Only the Deplorable
“Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.”
“Bunny slippers remind me of who I am.You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star or a rich lady if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because they're so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, 'Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I can't be silly and frivolous.”
“Bunny?
Yes, Nny?
I'm not happy.”
“Bunt was disgustedly drinking a pint of beer, eyeing the table with resentment, the dishes of sticky pork and soggy and wilted lettuce, the black vegetables, the gray broth, the purple meat. On one dish of yellow meat was a severed chicken’s head, its eyes blinded, its scalloped comb torn like a red rag.”
“Bunts lead to more big innings than anything else.”
“Bunu kendimize yapan biziz. BUNU KENDİMİZE YAPAN BİZİZ. Diğer bir deyişle (ki bu lafımı sakın unutma!): İNSANOĞLU ASLINDA KORKTUĞU YARATIĞIN TA KENDİSİDİR.”
Source: Bird Box
“Bunu okurken kalbim ve ruhum bir anda tutuşuveriyor. Başka bir evren görüyor gözlerim, bambaşka bir insana dönüşüyorum. Gökyüzü yarılıyor ve bir ışık ruhumu delip geçiyor. Davullar vuruyor, havai fişekler patlıyor! Olağanüstü bir ateş sarıyor beni, çılgınca bir ilham.”
Source: Bendeniz Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Bunu söyleyebilecek durumda değildir, çünkü düşündüğünde, işittiği bir ses değildir hatırladığı, daha çok bir izlenimdir söz konusu olan, sessiz bir tür davettir.”
Source: Martin Heidegger'in Böceği
“Bunyan points out, for example, how the Pharisees of Jesus’ day no doubt phrased their prayers well but were condemned because they fell short of “pouring out” their hearts to God (IWP, 38). Without help from the Holy Spirit in purifying and pouring out the heart, he writes, one who prays is “hyp- ocritical, cold, and unseemly” and “abominable to God” (IWP, 37).
The hypocrisy God detests, then, is importantly not a matter of say- ing one thing and doing another, but of saying one thing and feeling another: of a disjunction between the logocentric intellect and the heart, between the propositional truths of abstract doctrine and the emotions which are substantively to mirror and confirm it.”
Source: Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth
“Buon giorno», disse il piccolo principe.
«Buon giorno», disse il mercante.
Era un mercante di pillole perfezionate che calmavano la sete... Se ne inghiottiva una alla settimana e non si sentiva più il bisogno di bere.
«Perché vendi questa roba?» disse il piccolo principe.
«E' una grossa economia di tempo», disse il mercante. «Gli esperti hanno fatto dei calcoli. Si risparmia1no cinquantatré minuti alla settimana».
«E che cosa se ne fa di questi cinquantatré minuti?»
«Se ne fa quel che si vuole...»
«Io», disse il piccolo principe, «se avessi cinquantatré minuti da spendere, camminerei adagio adagio verso una fontana...»”
Source: The Little Prince
“Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.”
“Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so fast that two or three of his suite are obliged to be in attendance, that the one may take down one-half of a sentence, and another the rest; they then literally compare notes, and put the disjointed legs and wings and heads of periods together. This is writing a book as he fought a battle.”
Source: The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange
“Buongiorno. :)
‘Anima dannata’, thriller psicologico, pubblicato a fine ottobre 2015.
È la storia di un serial killer, la sua vita. Si snoda partendo dal passato, passato che perseguita il protagonista nella vita adulta; perseguita è un eufemismo, ne succhia la linfa trasformando il ragazzo divenuto uomo in un omicida seriale. In un pellegrinaggio psicologico si assisterà a uno sdoppiamento, inconsapevole… fino a: ‘Quando cala il buio’ (Butterfly Edizioni, 2012).
'Solitudine. Lontano dalle ore di lezione in ospedale, Mark passava il tempo in compagnia della solitudine. Quei momenti però erano una calamita per il tunnel della psicosi, per la voragine, il vuoto emotivo che creava la sua mente. Porter non era conscio di quello schizoide regredire, lo stava plasmando da dentro senza che lui se ne rendesse veramente conto. Era molto intelligente, ciononostante non era in grado di constatare i suoi cambiamenti profondi. Dentro di lui gironzolavano ormai due persone in perenne contrasto: la rabbia e l’odio erano l’impalcatura di una delle due. Era ciò che stava diventando, subdolamente: pura rabbia.”
Source: Anima dannata
“Buongiorno, microbo,” dice a Richie.
“Sto mangiando i cereali,” dice lui. E ridacchia. Si potrebbe quasi dire che le lancia uno sguardo malizioso. È palesemente infatuato di lei; è comico e tragico nel suo amore disperato. La fa pensare ogni tanto a un topo che canta serenate d’amore sotto la finestra di una gigantessa.”
Source: The Hours
“Buoyancy is a phenomenon whereby, as a leader, you float because the people you inspired believe that you should, because you've truly connected with the collective desires and values of the people you lead.”
“Buoyant is very much honesty, deception heavy.
Beauty, in contrasts.”
“Buoyant leadership is not a management technique, it's a leadership principle based on the belief that leading isn't presiding, it's taking people on a journey, and on any hero's journey there will be a setback.”
“Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction - up, down, sideways - by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.”
“Burada ki gizem avcısı benim ama onlar ne yapıyorlar? Gidip senin gibi İngiliz Edebiyatıyla kafayı bozmuş anti-sosyal kişiliği vampire dönüştürüyorlar! Dizideki vampir avcısı Buffy'nin bile yüreği cız etmiştir.Gerçi..." deyip değerlendiren gözle beni süzdü. "Senden çok iyi araştırma malzemesi, olurdu.”
Source: Some Girls Bite
“Burada olduğu için ona kızgındım, ama en çok da burada olmasını istediğim için kendime kızıyordum. Ona bağırmayı ve gitmesini söylemeyi ne kadar istesem de, kendimi beni biraz daha sıkmasını isterken buluyordum. Kollarını etrafıma dolayıp beni hiç bırakmamasını istiyordum, çünkü ait olduğu yer burasıydı ve beni yine terk etmesinden korkuyordum.”
Source: Hopeless
“Burada vaktimizi ziyan etmeyelim. Fırsat çıkmışken bir şeyler yapalım! Her gün bize ihtiyaç duyan biri çıkmaz. Yo yo, şahsen bize ihtiyaç duyulduğunu söylüyor değilim. Başkaları belki çok daha fazla yarar işe. Kulaklarımızda hala çınlayan imdat çığlıkları bütün insanlığa dönük! Ama burada, zamanın bu noktasında insanlık biziz. Hoşumuza gitsin gitmesin. Bunun değerini bilelim, çok geç olmadan! Hadi gidip, bir kere olsun acımasız kaderin bize sunduğu bu görevi hakkıyla yerine getirelim. Ne dersin? Kollarımızı kavuşturup durumun eğrisini doğrusunu ölçüp biçerken de, türümüzü onurlandırdığımız doğrudur. Kaplan kaplanın yardımına hiç düşünmeden koşar ya da balta girmemiş ormanların derinliklerinde kaybolur. Ama mesele bu değil. Burada ne yapmaktayız, işte bütün mesele bu. Ne mutlu bize ki, yanıtı biliyoruz. Evet bu muazzam karışıklığın içinde açık seçik olan bir şey var: Godot'yu bekliyoruz-”