B Quotes
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“But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.”
“But I never listen to music while I'm writing.”
“But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like? Where do you find it - by which morphological or expressive calibration? Where is your authentic body? You are the only one who can never see yourself except as an image; you never see your eyes unless they are dulled by the gaze they rest upon the mirror or the lens (I am interested in seeing my eyes only when they look at you): even and especially for your own body, you are condemned to the repertoire of its images.”
Source: Roland Barthes
“But I never plotted a master plan for following my dreams.”
“But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.”
“But I never thought of who he wasn't, I never had to explain or defend him to myself, I didn't even care what we talked about.”
“But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.”
“But I never want to not create something because I'm afraid of what it might say.”
“But I never worked with a northern horse before. They are very different from western horses.”
“But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry.”
“But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.”
“But I no longer had a taste for anything, a wish for anything, a love for anybody, a desire for anything whatever, any ambition, or any hope.”
Source: Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant
“But I noted with real satisfaction how well ex-footballers seemed to have leadership qualifications . . . I believe that football, perhaps more than any other sport, tends to instill in men the feeling that victory comes through hard - almost slavish - work, team play, self-confidence, and an enthusiasm that amounts to dedication.”
“But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.”
“But I now leave my cetological System standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the crane still standing upon the top of the uncompleted tower. For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!”
“But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.”
“But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and that we turn a blind eye to the sort of morbid self-absorption that becomes a predictable by-product of it.”
“But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.”
“But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.”
Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals
“But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created that a cat should play with mice.”
Source: Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution
“But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“But I plucked a new, different, worldly soul for myself -- maybe a soul I found in the spray thrown up by the surge of that distant African river as it plummets onto black rocks and sends up into the sun a permanent arc of a rainbow.”
Source: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic
“But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.”
“But I promise, I will not allow my limitations to lessen the pleasure you experience during our association."
A blush pinked her cheeks. But she did not look away.
"And what of your pleasure, my lord?" Her voice was soft and low. Smoky, like her eyes.
It weaved through Avenell's senses and hit him hard in the gut. Heat scored through his insides on a direct path to his loins. He had suspected from the start that her gentle manner had lured him so strongly. But the unexpected boldness in her query had an intense effect on him.
His arousal roughened his tone as he answered, "My pleasure is assured. Do not doubt that."
The pink in her cheeks spread down across her chest and the upper swell of her breasts, but still she held his gaze. He wondered what she might be thinking. Her stillness was disconcerting when he sensed so much going on inside her.”
Source: The Untouchable Earl
“But I promise you I'll love you until the day I die.
Then he kissed her. His lips on hers were as light as a breath. And she couldn't stop the horrible thought that his touch felt like a farewell.”
Source: Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke
“But I promise you, you guys can do it. In four days you'll be the happiest person Earth has ever seen. You'll stand by the ocean and feel the salty sea spray tingling in your nose. You'll be with people you know and love, and you'all appreciate how beautiful everything is. You'll see cars behind you in your rear view mirror, and maybe you'll laugh at the driver's faces. Because they'll look annoyed, bored, angry. And you'll realize what they're missing. You'll live a long and happy life, Mia. Because when you get home, you'll realize that anything is possible. You mustn't ever forget that.”
Source: 172 Hours on the Moon
“But I promised to be reliable, not competent”
Source: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
“But I put my life on the line to save animals.”
“But I quite like being afraid. It's like being in love.”
“But I quite like that the public has a very short attention span. If I haven't been on telly for a little bit, I can sense it. People don't take as much notice of you, it's really quite palpable.”
“But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.”
Source: The End Of Mr. Y
“But I rather like being infamous. If you're a nobody, you're just a nobody. If you're famous, they erect a statue of you and pigeons crap on your head. But if you're infamous, you're somebody without having to put up with pigeon crap. - Phinizy Mosely”
Source: Dairy Queen Days: A Novel
“But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair." "I never did," snapped Loki crossly. "Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't?”
Source: Runemarks
“But I read Catching Fire. I loved disappearing into a story.”
“But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.”
“But I read once that dreams are just your brain remixing what you've seen, and when we're afraid, we turn mysterious shapes into something familiar.”
Source: Danica dela Torre, Certified Sleuth
“But I realize now that the toughest choices, the ones that will haunt us for the rest of our lives, are ones that my mom is still sheltering me from.”
Source: End of Days
“But I realize now you can’t expect something from people who don’t have it in them to give.”
Source: Change Is Coming: Faith To Face The Inevitable
“But I realize that being real ain't got anything to do with where you live.”
Source: The Hate U Give
“But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense of inner worth and meaning, and spend a lot of time telling you about the suffering you have to go through to achieve it. As soon as you get a problem in any one of them, the solution it gives is always to go deeper into the same system. They're all in rather uneasy truce with one another in what's actually a mortal battle. Like all self-reinforcing systems. At best, each is trying to encompass the other two and define them as sub-groups. You know: religion and art are both forms of madness and madness is the realm of psychiatry. Or, art is the study and praise of man and man's ideals, so therefore a religious experience just becomes a brutalized aesthetic response and psychiatry is just another tool for the artist to observe man and render his portraits more accurately. And the religious attitude I guess is that the other two are only useful as long as they promote the good life. At worst, they all try to destroy one another. Which is what my psychiatrist, whether he knew it or not, was trying, quite effectively, to do to my painting. I gave up psychiatry too, pretty soon. I just didn't want to get all wound up in any systems at all.”
Source: Dhalgren
“But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense of inner worth and meaning, and spend a lot of time telling you about the suffering you have to go through to achieve it.”
“But I realized that not only did I need to keep tuning my skills as a doctor, I also had to figure out a way to live with the uncertainty of medicine and its attendant anxiety.”
Source: What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
“But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable.”
“But I really believe it is in America's interest as well as that of the free world more generally to stop Iran from getting its hands on nuclear weapons. This regime has threatened to wipe Israel off the map and bring about a world without America, and either of those is a really bad prospect.”
“But I really believe that if you have the ability, there is an obligation to make people laugh”
“But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.”
“But I really can't and I actually don't like switching off because I worry that I might lose my thread, or something. I fall asleep and I hope to God that I'm going to dream about it, because then I don't have to put it down.”
“But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.”
“But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.”
“But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.”