B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.”
Source: Stars and Gods
“But... we will always be drawn together. We'll always crave each other. We'll always be in tune with each other, physically and mentally. There is nothing that can change or break that. And even if there was, I wouldn't want to. Not for the world.”
Source: Significance: A Significance Novel
“But... what about us? What about the past?" she asks blankly. "The past isn't real. it's just a dream," I say. "Don't mention the past.”
Source: American Psycho: Picador Classic
“But... when I left you, Bella, I left you bleeding. Jacob was the one to stitch you back up again. That was bound to leave it's mark - on both of you. I'm not sure those kinds of stitches dissolve on their own. I can't blame either of you for something I made necessary. I may gain forgiveness, but that doesn't let me escape the consequences.”
“But... you're still getting married?" Grover sounded hurt. "Who's the bride?" Ploypemus looked toward the boiling pot. Clarisse made a strangled sound. "Oh, no! You can't be serious. I'm not-”
“But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse--a lot worse-- but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.”
“But...books are so much more. Some of them are webs; you can feel your way along their threads, but just barely, into strange and dark corners. Some of them are balloons bobbing up through the sky: totally self-contained, and unreachable, but beautiful to watch. And some of them―the best ones―are doors.”
“But...what if I mistime it?" Gilan smiled widely. "Well, in that case, I'll probably lop your head off your shoulders." Horace and Gilan”
“But...you could have whatever you wished." "Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck. "But," I say, "you could turn stones to rubies or ride in a fine gentleman's carriage." Kartik puts his hands on either side of my face. "To each his own magic," he says and kisses me again.”
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“Butch didn't live in his own place. He didn't spend his own money. He had no job, no future. He was a well-kept pet, not a man.”
Source: Lover Revealed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“Butch hesitated. "Annabeth's okay. You gotta cut her some slack. She had a vision telling her to come here, to find a guy with one shoe. That was supposed to be the answer to her problem." "What Problem?" Piper asked. "She's been looking for one of our campers, who's been missing three days," Butch said. "She's going out of her mind with worry. She hoped he'd be here." "Who?" Jason asked. "Her boyfriend," Butch said, "A guy named Percy Jackson.”
“Butch, I got sick and needed some time to regroup. But I wanted to see you. That's why I asked you to come calling when I ran into you back in December. When you said no, I thought... well, you'd lost interest."
She'd wanted to see him? Had she said that?
"Butch, I wanted to see you."
Yeah, she had. Twice.
Well, now... didn't that perk a guy up.”
Source: Lover Revealed
“Butch nodded as if he knew exactly what was doing. "Like I said, my man, it's whatever. You and me? Same as always, no matter who you screw. Although… if you're into sheep, that would be tough. Don't know if I could handle that.”
Source: Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“Butch put his hand on his roommate's nape and murmured, "I'll do the saving until you get your head back, how about that? I'll keep you safe.”
Source: Lover Revealed: Number 4 in series
“Butch repositioned the Sox cap, and as his wrist passed by his nose, he got another whiff of himself. "Ah, V. . . listen, there is something a little weird going down on me." "What?" "I smell like men's cologne." "Good for you. Females dig that kind of thing." "Vishous, I smell like Obsession for Men, only I'm not WEARING any, you feel me?" There was silence on the line. Then, "Humans don't bond." "Oh, really. You want to tell that to my central nervous system and my sweat glands? They'd appreciate the news flash, I'm sure.”
“Butch tightened his grip on his cell and wished there were an app that let you reach through a phone and bitch slap someone.”
Source: Lover Unleashed
“Butch was quiet for a time. Then he said, "I think that's why I like Jane."
"huh?"
"When you look at her? You actually see her, and when's the last time that's happened for you?"
V geared himself up, then stared hard into Butch's eyes. "I saw you. even though it was wrong. I saw you."
Shit, he sounded sad. Sad and...lonely. Which made him want to change the subject.”
Source: Lover Unbound
“Butch: What happened to the old bank? It was beautiful.
Guard: People kept robbing it.
Butch: Small price to pay for beauty.”
Source: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Screenplay
“Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. You're the best there. You've been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we'll make nice music.”
“Butcher boy, damn it, butcher boy.”
“Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
“Bute coming over here is a big mistake.”
“Butforme, theAlps and their peoplewerealikebeautiful in their snow, and their humanity; and I wanted, neither for them nor myself, sight of any thrones in heaven but the rocks, or of any spirits in heaven but the clouds.”
“Buth marriages were mysterious and private things, even to the people in the marriages themselves. One spouse's perception of how the relationship was fairing could be drastically different from the other spouse's. In marriage, you were ultimately alone together.”
“Buth this is the thing, my child, " Madame Amparo continued. "You are headed for the same night sky. When it's your turn to burn brightly, remember where you have been. Be careful not to harm all of those in your orbit.”
Source: 32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line
“Butiran gula larut dalam kopi hitam
Taburan bintang larut dalam kelam malam
Pahit manis kenangan teraduk
Kuhirup semalam suntuk”
Source: Nocturnal Journal
“Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Butler could kill you a hundred different ways without use of his armoury. Though I'm sure one would be quite sufficient.”
Source: Artemis Fowl:
“Butler described some lives as `ungrievable’ which cannot be mourned for because they never lived and remained uncounted. Perhaps, women who are dying due to dowry violence in homes are such ungrievable, uncounted lives – the lives that no one wants to protect, no one wants to mourn, and no one wants to remember.”
“Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to be immediately executed by hanging.”
“Butler snapped his fingers. "Focus, Artemis! Time enough for your Atlantis Complex later. We have the Atlantis Trench outside that door and six miles of water above it. If you want to stay alive, you need to stay alert." He turned to Holly. "This is ridiculous. I'm pulling the plug."
Holly's mouth was a tight line as she shook her head. "Navy rules, Butler. You're on my boat, you follow my orders."
"As I remember, I brought the boat."
"Yes, thanks for bringing my boat.”
Source: The Atlantis Complex
“Butler was seeing the world as it was, complete with L.E.P retrival team”
“Butler's interception comes off as a great play, which it really was, at the biggest time of the year.”
“Butler,” he called, his voice thin and childlike in the wind. “Yes, Artemis, what?” “If something goes wrong, wait for me. No matter how it looks, I will return. I will bring them all back.”
Source: Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony
“Butt holes are like a one-way street; they were made the way they were for a reason.”
Source: Bound to Accept
“Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.”
“Butter belongs on the chicken, but the chicken does not belong on the butter.”
“Butter-blond hair threaded with gold blew around his face.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“Butter-soft light streamed through the rounded windows, gilding every surface of the unexpectedly bright flat that Evangeline found herself in. The walls were covered in bold yellow and orange flowers, the shelves were speckled with glitter, and the books on them were arranged by the colour of the spine.”
Source: Once Upon a Broken Heart
“Butter tea and wind pictures, the Crystal Mountain, and blue sheep dancing on the snow - it's quite enough!
Have you seen the snow leopard?
No! Isn't that wonderful?”
― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard”
Source: The Snow Leopard
“Butter tea has been known for centuries to improve health in people exposed to high altitudes.”
Source: Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue
“Butter typically melts around, you know, 90 Fahrenheit, as opposed to about 20 degrees higher for lard. So what that means is that when you're working with it, the lard is going to stay more solid, which is great for flakiness.”
“Butter yo shit.”
“Butterbur they call him...If this delay was his fault, I will melt all the butter in him. I will roast the old fool over a slow fire”
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers & The Return of the King--Plus The Tolkien Reader
“Buttercup?” Trace looked concerned. “You’ve named the cows?”
“Not all of them … yet. I’ll give them each a name when the perfect name pops up.”
He scratched his head. “You do know the fate of most beef cattle, right?””
Source: Colorado Takedown
“Buttercup's mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew.)”
Source: The Princess Bride
“Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)”
Source: The Princess Bride
“Buttercup, miserable even with Prim’s constant attention, huddles in the cube and exhales cat breath in my face.”
Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy
“Buttercups and daisies,
Oh, the pretty flowers;
Coming ere the spring time,
To tell of sunny hours.
When the trees are leafless;
When the fields are bare;
Buttercups and daisies
Spring up here and there.”
Source: Birds and flowers and other country things [in verse].
“Buttercups, bright eyed and bold, hold their chalices of gold to catch the sunshine and the dew.”