All Quotes

A biscuit in the States is something you would put gravy on with dinner, and it's not sweet in the least!
‐‐ Stephan Pastis

A bit of a theory, more a corner of the eye noticing than an airtight argument: in the course of long artistic careers, women are more likely than men to change form and style, Proteus-like.
‐‐ Stacey D'Erasmo

A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin.
‐‐ Elizabeth Hurley

A bit, the smallest unit of information, the fundamental particle of information theory, is a choice, yes or no, on or off. It's a choice that you can embody in electrical circuits, and it is thanks to that that we have all this ubiquitous computing.
‐‐ James Gleick

A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.
‐‐ Cornel West

A black belt is what you prove to be, but also what it means in your heart.
‐‐ Jason David Frank

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
‐‐ Groucho Marx

A black dress is beautiful! It's a good choice. It could be the wrong choice at certain events or situations, but it's very rare that you see a girl who looks bad in a black dress.
‐‐ Olivier Theyskens

A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like air in a tornado.
‐‐ Kip Thorne

A black man - I say a black man, we got no corner on the market, but every day in some form or fashion you got to prove you're a man. But you want to keep the life-and-death situations down. I can get beat. But there's getting beat and there's getting stomped.
‐‐ Joe Greene

A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for granted that someone would lead him to it. The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves.
‐‐ Steven Biko

A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
‐‐ Charley Pride

A black person grows up in this country - and in many places - knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

A black suit can be classic and timeless and certainly for most occasions. But remember, it's not so much the color of suit as it is about the fit, cut, style, and, of course, attitude you have when wearing it.
‐‐ John Varvatos

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.
‐‐ Elizabeth Blackwell

A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems.
‐‐ Antony Beevor

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
‐‐ Charles Kingsley

A blessing is a circle of light drawn around a person to protect, heal and strengthen.
‐‐ John O'Donohue

A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'
‐‐ Tommy Cooper

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
‐‐ Sol LeWitt

A bloc of states is emerging that understands that they may have been wrong to think that Israel is the world's greatest problem.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

A blocked path also offers guidance.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both.
‐‐ Lemn Sissay

A blouse that hits at the hips or above will keep you from seeming shapeless in a flowy skirt.
‐‐ Brad Goreski

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
‐‐ Robert Burton

A blowtorch is a wonderful thing. You can get one of those for about 25 bucks at Home Depot. And there's a ton of things that you can use a blowtorch for, in browning a steak or touching up the browning of a chicken or making creme brulee.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

A blue dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing to follow his party even when he knew it was wrong.
‐‐ Mike Thompson

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
‐‐ Carolyn Wells

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

A board constituted as the board of Sydney Hospital is constituted is not a suitable body to have control of an institute of medical research.
‐‐ John Eccles

A board of directors that cannot produce reliable audited financial statements for almost seven years simply should not remain in office.
‐‐ Dilip Shanghvi

A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.
‐‐ Carly Fiorina

A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo.
‐‐ David Harsanyi

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
‐‐ Jean Rostand

A body smiles, like, 72 times a day. Where does that smile go? That's what I want to know.
‐‐ Goldie Hawn

A bold reform agenda is our moral obligation. If we make the case effectively and win this November, then we will have the moral authority to enact the kind of fundamental reforms America has not seen since Ronald Reagan's first year.
‐‐ Paul Ryan

A Bollywood hero, for most people, has been a Raj, a Rahul or a Prem... it's now a part of the psyche.
‐‐ Randeep Hooda

A Bond movie falls into a specific genre, and you have to provide certain elements. You must respect the fact it's essentially about girls, guns, gadgets, and big action.
‐‐ Lee Tamahori

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
‐‐ Jack London

A bonus: You don't have to diet to direct.
‐‐ Joey Lauren Adams

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.
‐‐ Lance Armstrong

A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

A book becomes something else once it's dramatized.
‐‐ Geraldine McEwan

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.
‐‐ Danielle Steel

A book can be wonderful and powerful and accessible and artful all at the same time.
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.
‐‐ Patrick Ness

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
‐‐ Madeleine L'Engle

A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.
‐‐ Pico Iyer