B Quotes
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“Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.”
“Bach was quarrelsome, litigious, self-serving, greedy for titles and honors, etc. So what! A musicologist listing the cantatas whose theme is death has remarked that no mortal ever had such a nostalgia for it. Which is all that counts. The rest has to do with biography.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.”
“Bach é um astrônomo, descobrindo as estrelas mais maravilhosas. Beethoven desafia o universo. Eu apenas tento expressar a alma e o coração do homem.
Frédéric Chopin”
“Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.”
“Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.”
“Bach, of course, was my first love. He still is. I mean, he's the man of my life, that's for sure. And when I say that there's been a re-evaluation, look, to be perfectly honest, I think I have a re-evaluation of my relationship with Bach probably every day, and that will never stop. And that's probably why I still get up in the morning and I do this.”
“Bachchan has been in the film industry over 35 years and he is the real king. There are many who are around for 15-20 years and like to call themselves king. There is only one king and he is Amitabh Bachchan”
“Bachelor parties are designed for those who are sad to see the passing of their single days. I couldn’t be more eager to have mine behind me. So there’s really no point.”
“Bachelor parties are for the married guys.”
“Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.”
“Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Notes Historical and Critical
“Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side.”
Source: Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories
“Bachelors begin at thirty-six. Up till this age they are regarded as single men.”
Source: Men And Supermen
“Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.”
“Bachelors know all about parties. In fact, a good bachelor is a living, breathing party all by himself. At least that is what my girlfriend said when she found the gin bottles under the couch. I believe her exact words were, "You're a disgusting, drunken mess." And that's a good description of a party, if it's done right.”
Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader
“Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.”
Source: A little book in C major
“Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.”
“Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all.”
“Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life.”
“Back 20 years ago, there was a division between movie actors and TV actors. That's kind of gone away. People who have had a lot of success in movies in the past now want to be on TV. There used to be much more of a quality division between TV and movies, and that's kind of not the case anymore.”
“Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.”
“Back and forth she went each morning by the river, spring arriving once again; foolish, foolish spring, breaking open its tiny buds, and what she couldn’t stand was how—for many years, really—she had been made happy by such a thing. She had not thought she would ever become immune to the beauty of the physical world, but there you were. The river sparkled with the sun that rose, enough that she needed her sunglasses.”
Source: Olive Kitteridge: Fiction
“Back and forward or in any direction, we can measure no space except nothingness. Within the coordinates of the Being, we measure the “space,” but that which we call space is only the appearance of the immaterial Being presented to us, or sensed by us, as material. Yet, the only “volume” of this “space” is Nothingness.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Back as kids we used to kiss when we played truth or dare,
Now she's more sophisticated, highly edu-ma-cated
Not at all over-rated...I think I need a prayer
To get in her boots, and it looks rather dry,
I guess a twinkle in her eye is just a twinkle in her eye.
Although she's crazy steppin', I'll try to stop her stride,
'Cause I won't have no more of this passin' me by.”
“Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.”
Source: The Silence of the Lambs
“Back at home, after some prodding from Tereza, he admitted that he had been jealous watching her dance with a colleague of his. "You mean you were really jealous?" she asked him ten times or more, incredulously, as though someone had just informed her she had been awarded a Nobel Peace prize. Then she put her arm around his waist and began dancing across the room. The step she used was not the one she had shown off in the bar. It was more like a village polka, a wild romp that sent her legs flying in the air and her torso bounding all over the room, with Tomas in tow. Before long, unfortunately, she bagan to be jealous herself, and Tomas saw her jealously not as a Nobel Prize, but as a burden, a burden he would be saddled with until not long before his death.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Back at home, days later, feel cranky and tired. Sit on the couch and tell him he's stupid. That you bet he doesn't know who Coriolanus is. That since you moved in you've noticed he rarely reads. He will give you a hurt, hungry-to-learn look, with his James Cagney eyes. He will try to kiss you. Turn your head. Feel suffocated. (from "How")”
Source: Self-help
“Back at home, I slip into a milky bath perfumed with chamomile and honey. Lemon slices and flower petals float on the surface of the water. The steam relieves my pores, turning my skin supple and dewy. I light a rose-scented candle, allowing the sweet fragrance to mingle with the herbal steam.”
Source: Dance of the Starlit Sea
“Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom”
“Back at the cottage we explored the topography of my body; twigs in my hair, calves striped red and my skirt smudged in meadowtones. The forest underlined me, accentuated me, illustrated me. I felt alive in that midnight village whose dark places left their signatures on my skin, whose bites still hummed around my wrists. I didn’t notice till then the thousand nettle stings rising like pearls; burning bracelets that my love kissed and rubbed with dock leaves; a folk remedy painting my pulse points green; honorary stalks.”
Source: Dreaming in Night Vision: A Story in Vignettes
“Back at the Davydokovo apartment, we sat mesmerized in front of Grandad's Avantgard brand TV. It was all porn all the time. Porn in three flavors: 1)Tits and asses; 2) gruesome close-ups of dead bodies from war or crimes; 3) Stalin. Wave upon wave of previously unseen documentary footage of the Generalissimo. Of all the porn, number three was the most lurid. The erotics of power.”
Source: Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
“Back at the ER, while waiting on my test results, a nurse asked me how I was doing.
"I don't know," replied. "How am I'm doing?"
"Everything's great," she lied. "You're doing fine."
"No, no," I said pointing to my crotch. "How am I dong?"
She laughed. "I'm sure that'll be fine."
I closed my eyes for a while.”
Source: Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul
“Back at the oak the men lounged in the shade and finished up their meal. Watching Clayt down at the creek, Nestor threw out a quiet question for anyone who would listen.
“How come Clayt don’t wear no spurs?”
“Don’t need ’em,” Lou said. “You seen him ride. He can purty much control a horse with just his knees and neck-reinin’.”
Nestor lay back and propped on both elbows. Lifting a leg, he turned one boot in profile and spun the rowel with the toe of his other boot.
“Hell, I like the way it sounds when I walk.”
Lou stood and brushed off his trousers. “He don’t need that neither.”
Source: Indigo Heaven
“Back at the Rash [a Florida nightclub], a waif in a lime latex body tube went into the rest room to snort the newest designer drug, XGB5, which gave people the uncanny sensation of throwing money away while chewing their own lips off. It was hard to come by and everyone had to have it.”
“Back at the stove, she used a spatula to dunk the puffed-up pastries into the hot oil, making sure the edges were a warm golden brown before she scooped them out of the fryer. That was the key to making sure her beignets were crispy on the outside and pillow-soft on the inside.
She plated them on one of T&J's Supper Club's signature emerald-green plates and sprinkled just the right amount of powdery confectioners' sugar on the top.
Perfect.”
Source: Almost There
“Back at the temple, Timmer made it just in time for the evening worship program. He felt that he had done the right thing and could now start a new life with a clean slate. Perhaps one day he would find love among Krishnaites. But for now, his heart was filled only with love for God and immense gratitude.
The happy faces and shining eyes of those around him reflected the same feelings. Gathered together in the altar room, Krishna's servants folded their hands in prayerful gestures and began to repeat the Maha Mantra in chorus.”
Source: The Power of the Greatest Mantra
“Back at the treasury Mattias had said, 'He's one of us'. She liked that word. Us. A word without divisions or borders. It seemed full of hope.”
Source: Six of Crows
“Back before 'Brick,' I wrote a short film that I never ended up shooting: hit men in the present who work for a mob in the future who send their victims back in time. A guy is sent his future self, he lets him run, and the whole short was them chasing each other across the city. That sat in a drawer for 10 years until after I made 'Brothers Bloom.”
“Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.”
“Back before Napster and Spotify, we toured to promote record sales.
Now we make records to promote tour dates.”
“Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".”
“Back before there was time, I lived with my father on an island, tucked away in an endless archipelago that reached up out of the cold salt water, hungry for air.”
Source: The Scent Keeper
“Back-benchers and Last-rankers in School; they have determined hands, powerful minds and courage to turn the mountain of opportunities in their favour, grind challenges and mould desires and dreams into Grand Realities.”
Source: Wanted Back-Bencher and Last-Ranker Teacher
“Back Burner
Put the stress on the back burner
It only burns its way back
Put your thoughts on the future
and it becomes the past..."
excerpt from my poem Back Burner from
The Poetic Diary of Love and Change - Volume 1
©Clarissa O. Clemens”
Source: The Poetic Diary of Love and Change
“Back down a country road the girls are always hot and the beer is ice cold.”
“Back down is an effective way to cast out strife spirit.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“back early from Vienna. For some reason, perhaps a nasty hunch, she had gone out to the cottage. Or they had gone there together. In the bedroom was my laundered blouse. Then came the scene in Suffolk or London, and her ultimatum – get rid of the girl, or march. So Tony had made the obvious decision. But here’s the point. He had made another choice too. He had decided to cast himself as the victim, the wronged, the deceived, the rightly furious. He had persuaded himself that he had said nothing”
Source: Sweet Tooth
“back from when they watched black and white TV and hunted dinosaurs.”
“Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.”