All Quotes

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley

Bonds as an asset class will always be needed, and not just by insurance companies and pension funds but by aging boomers.
‐‐ Bill Gross

Bone is one of the hardest structures of the animal body; it possesses also a certain degree of toughness and elasticity.
‐‐ Henry Gray

'Boneless,' even though we were thinking about servicing it to radio, it made more sense putting a vocal on there. This was actually the first time that I really looked at doing a song for radio and kind of let go of some control and listened to a lot of different radio pluggers and had Ultra come in and help out with ideas.
‐‐ Steve Aoki

Bones inside clothes. That was war to me.
‐‐ Alek Wek

Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.
‐‐ Kathy Reichs

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.
‐‐ Charles James

Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
‐‐ Daniel Boulud

Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of picking the top ten bands off the Billboard chart and creating a festival around it.
‐‐ Michael Franti

Bonnaroo is the most significant festival in the country. I can sometimes just get caught up in the moment and listening and say, 'Oops, I gotta go sing now.'
‐‐ Richie Furay

Bonnie and Clyde grew up in absolute poverty. They didn't go to school or have any money; the only way they could figure out how to get ahead was to steal. The banks were foreclosing on everyone's homes. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to that struggle.
‐‐ Jeremy Jordan

'Bonnie and Clyde' was the first show and the first role that I got to originate. Being part of that from the ground up and investing three years of my life into seeing that show come to Broadway was really rigorous but also so exciting.
‐‐ Laura Osnes

Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified.
‐‐ Lane Garrison

'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.
‐‐ Bryan Burrough

Bono is chairman and founding member of Over-Achievers Anonymous. He has an irrepressible drive to be great. He wants to achieve it all, which actually makes him very vulnerable.
‐‐ The Edge

Bono is my inspiration - not only as a rock star but as a humanitarian. We aren't just put on this earth to sell records. Maybe it's because of my upbringing, but I do consider myself a moral guy.
‐‐ Jesse McCartney

Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.
‐‐ Florence Welch

Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom, they ended because of the warfare in the Congo. It was really bad for the bonobo and ironic that people with their warfare were preventing us from studying the hippies of the primate world.
‐‐ Frans de Waal

Bonuses balance my budget in New York City. The bigger the bonuses on Wall Street, the more money I had to spend on poor people. The New York City budget is determined greatly by the bonuses given on Wall Street.
‐‐ Rudy Giuliani

Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.
‐‐ Adriana Trigiani

Book clubs, both online and in person, have become a large percentage of the reading public, and many of them won't consider reading books in hardcover.
‐‐ Christina Baker Kline

Book four is tentatively titled 'The Skull Throne ,' and book five is 'The Core .' It's kind of hard to talk much about them without giving away things from 'Daylight War,' however.
‐‐ Peter V. Brett

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
‐‐ James Wolcott

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
‐‐ Anthony Trollope

Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
‐‐ Manuel Puig

Book sales and teens reading is always a fantastic thing, but we should also be celebrating and consuming the huge wealth of U.K. and U.K.-based writing and illustrating talent. Authors such as Charlie Higson, Darren Shan, Holly Smale, Tanya Byrne, Catherine Johnson, Sophie Mckenzie, to name but a few.
‐‐ Malorie Blackman

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
‐‐ Bernard Cornwell

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.
‐‐ Michael Lewis

Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.
‐‐ Lev Grossman

Book tours are really kind of fun. You get to stay in nice hotels, you are driven everywhere in big silver cars, you are treated as if you are much more important than you are, you can eat steak three times a day at someone else's expense, and you get to talk endlessly about yourself for weeks at a stretch.
‐‐ Bill Bryson

Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.
‐‐ Chuck Klosterman

Booking windows are shrinking, and customers are going mobile: trends which position HotelTonight perfectly for the future.
‐‐ Barry Sternlicht

Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
‐‐ Malcolm Gladwell

Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.
‐‐ Jayne Anne Phillips

Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
‐‐ Malorie Blackman

Books always help.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi

Books and marriage go ill together.
‐‐ Moliere

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
‐‐ Tom Clancy

Books and movies are never finished, only surrendered.
‐‐ Chuck Hogan

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
‐‐ Ernestine Rose

Books and people are hard to compare.
‐‐ Andrew Clements

Books are a finer world within the world.
‐‐ Alexander Smith

Books are a little better movies than just screenplays because there's more fat on the bone. There's more character development. There's more stuff to pick from.
‐‐ Mike Binder

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.
‐‐ John Burns

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
‐‐ E. L. Doctorow

Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
‐‐ Gary Wolf

Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
‐‐ Tamora Pierce