All Quotes

Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole state of Virginia, from her home on the Eastern Shore to our little Appalachian coal town to marry my daddy, Ernest Smith, whose family had lived in these mountains for generations.
‐‐ Lee Smith

Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
‐‐ T. E. Hulme

Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation.
‐‐ Harry Seidler

Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impression and wriggle its way into the matrix of a diamond. But it has one fewer electron, so it can't quite form the same four perfect bonds.
‐‐ Sam Kean

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
‐‐ Rudyard Kipling

Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.
‐‐ Paul Ryan

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
‐‐ Doris Lessing

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
‐‐ Ernest Holmes

Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension about it, like in books if, instead of 'Chapter One,' you have 'First Movement.'
‐‐ Geoff Dyer

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.
‐‐ Arne Duncan

Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.
‐‐ Alija Izetbegovic

Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.
‐‐ Paddy Ashdown

Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.
‐‐ Michael Cacoyannis

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.
‐‐ Charles Edison

Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as 'employee satisfaction results' - might improve.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson

Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.
‐‐ Ian McShane

'Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason.
‐‐ Stefanie Powers

Boston and America is really resilient.
‐‐ Stephen Pagliuca

Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies.
‐‐ David Walton

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
‐‐ Lincoln Steffens

Boston is a very proud franchise. The NBA misses them when they are not in the mix. They, along with teams like the Knicks and 76ers are a big part of the heart, soul and history of the league.
‐‐ Doug Collins

Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar.
‐‐ John Krasinski

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.
‐‐ Julia Ward Howe

Boston is known for its innovation.
‐‐ Thomas Menino

Boston is really a small town, and the pro sports here are almost like a college sport.
‐‐ Stephen Pagliuca

Boston is safe. And we're going to keep it safe.
‐‐ Thomas Menino

Boston is so laced with jerseys that you can be dressed head to toe in team apparel and no one will look twice.
‐‐ David Walton

Boston is the cream of the crop of the marathon world. It has such history that you feel such honor just being a part of it. All the other races have pacers to get you to a Boston qualifying time.
‐‐ Summer Sanders

Boston is the engine of the state's economy.
‐‐ Thomas Menino

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.
‐‐ Bill Bryson

Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful.
‐‐ Leonard Nimoy

Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.
‐‐ Jason Alexander

Boston was incredible. I had some of the best experiences of my life there at Berklee because I met a bunch of other people who were at the exact same stage in life and interest as me. There were American and international students all wrapped up in the Berklee environment, where you basically did nothing but music 24/7.
‐‐ Anat Cohen

Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans and peas.
‐‐ Horace Gray

'Botanicula' tells the story of a group of twigs, nuts, and leaves trying to escape with the life essence of a tree in tow before nasties from another world destroy them and everything else in their path. Yes, it's a point-and-click adventure game, but behind every click, there's a bit of joy to be found. Bugs sing. Bees dance.
‐‐ Rob Manuel

Botanists have a tradition of never revealing the exact location of a rare plant. Contact between humans and rare plants is generally risky for the plants.
‐‐ Richard Preston

Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.
‐‐ Tana French

Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.
‐‐ Andrew Coyle Bradley

Both cheap value stocks and more glamorous growth stocks can work well in a portfolio - if done right.
‐‐ Kenneth Fisher

Both Chelsea and Manchester United will be challenging for the Premiership title next season.
‐‐ Roy Evans

Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States.
‐‐ Paul Weyrich

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
‐‐ Barbara Ehrenreich

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?
‐‐ Beah Richards

Both CNN and NPR prohibit political activity by all journalists, no matter their assignment.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

Both 'Consenting Adults' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revolve around the economic stresses of the '90s. They are about what people do when they're pushed against that wall, and how they're manipulated. They are both morality tales, though in very different genres.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey

Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL' was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you're talking about.
‐‐ Amy Poehler

Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as 'chemical imbalances in the brain,' as if spontaneous neural events with no relation to anything outside a person's brain cause depression and anxiety.
‐‐ Siri Hustvedt

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
‐‐ Erich Fromm