B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.”
“But I let it slide, because, hello, hot guy.”
“But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.”
“but i lied
i didn't deserve your heart
for me forever was a moment”
Source: Dining with the Enemy
“But I like all the books. You've got to read them all to get the complete Harry Potter experience.”
“But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?”
“But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.”
“But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.”
“But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.”
“But I like my big Afro. I also liked when my hair was longer and relaxed. I’m happy to have choices. They’re mine to make”
Source: The Sun Is Also a Star
“But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9.”
“But I like noise when it's comforting. It's as good as silence when it's the sound of loved ones buzzing around your home.”
Source: Between Commitment and Betrayal
“But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.”
“But I like the feel of men on things, while they're alive. There's a feel of men about trucks, because they've been handled with men's hands, all of them.”
Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)
“But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.”
“But I like to know that someone is stronger than I am. I want to be able to know that if I get tired, somebody is there to hold up the fort. I like knowing that I can't pick a refrigerator alone. God did not make me strong enough to do that.”
“But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.”
“But I like to swim. At high school, I tried out for the swim team. I shaved off all my body hair, and that extra burst of speed from all the bullies shouting Kill the fairy.”
“But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.”
“But I like to think that a lot of managers and executives trying to solve problems miss the forest for the trees by forgetting to look at their people -- not at how much more they can get from their people or how they can more effectively manage their people. I think they need to look a little more closely at what it's like for their people to come to work there every day.”
Source: From Worst to First: Behind the Scenes of Continental's Remarkable Comeback
“But I like you this way. I like you impure and scrappy and formidable. I like the Evelyn Hugo who sees the world for what it is and then goes out there and wrestles what she wants out of it. So, you know, put whatever label you want on it, just don't change. That would be the real tragedy.”
“But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.”
“But I liked you from the moment I first heard your voice,” he said, “when I had no idea what you looked like. I thought it delicious, the way you bargained for me, as though I were an old rug. Then I loved the way you looked at me. Then I loved the way you ordered me about. I loved your patient and impatient ways of explaining things to me. I love the sound of your voice and the way you move. I love your courage and your kindness and your generosity and your obstinacy and your passion.” He paused. “You’re the genius. What do you think that means?”
Source: Mr. Impossible
“But I listen to live recordings of things that I did back in the '70s and then how I've done things since. And there's no doubt about it: if I compare the two, it's like chalk and cheese.”
“But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the downside is people know everything.”
“But I live here, in this place. And I don’t know how to tell you that. I don’t want you to squirm, or take my hand and say it’s tragic. I don’t want you to roll your eyes as though I’m playing a macho game of one-upmanship: My pain can beat up everyone else’s adolescent pain, so I’ll just be over here in the corner, savoring the depths of my stoic suffering and shedding no more than a single tear when I listen to every single cover of “Hurt” and “Hallelujah” on repeat. No, you can’t help me. Don’t try to help me. Please try to help me.”
Source: Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens
“But I live, I live, with an absolutely continuous sense of failure. I am always defeated, always.”
Source: The Black Prince
“But I live very simply. I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I do my own laundry most days and I get on with the business of living.”
“But I'll admit that he's kind of offensively delicious"
"Like salt and vinegar potato chips"
"Exactly”
Source: Friday Night Bites
“But I’ll gladly have you sit on my face. Make me your throne, and you’ll be my crown”
Source: ELORA
“But I'll have to ask you to wait a long time, Anne," said Gilbert sadly. "It will be three years before I'll finish my medical course. And even then there will be no diamond sunbursts and marble halls."
Anne laughed.
"I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. You see I'm quite as shameless as Phil about it. Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more `scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other -- and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now."
Gilbert drew her close to him and kissed her. Then they walked home together in the dusk, crowned king and queen in the bridal realm of love, along winding paths fringed with the sweetest flowers that ever bloomed, and over haunted meadows where winds of hope and memory blew.”
Source: Anne of the Island
“But I’ll have to tell them everything I did”
Source: The Long December
“But I'll tell you a secret. You know what boys like? A woman who's happy with herself. Who's not making herself miserable with the Jane Fonda videotapes and complaining all the time about whether this part or that one's too big. And you know what else they like? She leaned in close, whispering into her granddaughter's ear. Good food.”
Source: Little Earthquakes
“But I'll tell you more about that later... or maybe I won't, because some wounds just don't heal even if you talk them out. On the contrary, the more you dress them up in words, the more they bleed.”
“But I'll tell you right now, when the blood inside a stranger is inside you, you want to know who he is.”
Source: The Complete Book of Aspen
“But I'll tell you right now, when the blood inside of a stranger is inside you, you want to know who he is.”
Source: The Complete Book of Aspen
“But I'll tell you the truth: The world needs more peacemaker instead of warmonger.”
Source: The seven deadly sins
“But I looked out at the waves far below the bluff. They looked violent, erupting against the cliff. I watched them rising - up, up, higher, higher - then falling, crashing, swirling into chaos, passing away. I breathed deeply. I tried to breathe space between my thoughts, find the space between the anger.”
Source: Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)
“But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.”
“But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.”
“But I love fish, cheese and meat, and I eat everything, but only in small quantities if it's rich.”
“But I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.”
“But I love him."
"So love him."
"But I miss him."
"So miss him. Send him love and light every time you think about him, and then drop it.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.”
Source: Controversy Between New York Tribune and Gerrit Smith
“But I love how people who are musical, they know how to dress.”
“But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could.”
“But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'”
“But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.”
“But I love that feeling of utter depletion: It is an ecstatic sense of having committed myself to the absolute limit. But after recharging at night, I'm ready to go the next morning. Isn't that what life is all about?”
“But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.”