All Quotes

Bullying is never fun, it's a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.
‐‐ Raini Rodriguez

Bullying, to me, starts very small around the kindergarten age where the first thing we learn is to call each other names. Something so small can be so long lasting in someone's life.
‐‐ Shane Koyczan

Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.
‐‐ John Doolittle

'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.
‐‐ Jackson Pollock

Bun E.'s a member of the band, but he's not touring, and he's not recording... We've had our differences, but we're all settled up now, and hopefully we can forget about that era. These decisions that Cheap Trick makes, Bun E. is part of.
‐‐ Robin Zander

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization could have invented it. The French took a stab with Sartre's 'No Exit,' but then they had to ruin it with a lesson at the end.
‐‐ Rob Sheffield

Bungle is definitely a priority right now.
‐‐ Trevor Dunn

'Bunk' is a comedy game show where, each week, three of my favorite comedians compete in a series of bizarre and meaningless challenges all for my entertainment. Ethan T. Berlin and Eric Bryant created 'Bunk.'
‐‐ Kurt Braunohler

'Bunk' is better than 'Wheel of Fortune' because we have a wheel, just like them, but our wheel is purposeless. It doesn't do anything. It just spins for no reason. Which is nice because it frees our wheel up to really pursue its dream: becoming a professional paddlewheel.
‐‐ Kurt Braunohler

Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.
‐‐ Glenn Close

Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud. The - if the home team bunts, you get a base. The home team applauds because they get an out, and the other team applauds because they get a base. So what does that tell you?
‐‐ Bill James

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
‐‐ Horatio Nelson

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.
‐‐ Alan Keyes

Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.
‐‐ Darrell Issa

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
‐‐ Laurence J. Peter

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
‐‐ Dale Dauten

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
‐‐ Jaime Lerner

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
‐‐ Joseph A. Schumpeter

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
‐‐ Mary McCarthy

Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.
‐‐ John Sununu

Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.
‐‐ Elinor Ostrom

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
‐‐ Frank Lloyd Wright

Burger King's business model was broken. But it was like sex in the '50s. Everyone knew it, but no one would talk about it.
‐‐ Greg Brenneman

Burgers and fries are an American staple. On the same token, my kids eat vegetables, and they always have eaten vegetables. They didn't have a choice but to eat vegetables.
‐‐ Don Thompson

Burglars know there's more than one way to skin a vault.
‐‐ James Chiles

'Buried Alive' is a little scary, but also a comedy at the same time.
‐‐ Tobin Bell

Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth.
‐‐ Mark Rylance

Burlesque girls were alchemists. They were steel-tough performers who were willing to use kitchens as dressing rooms, haul their costume bags through the snow, and go into debt over fake diamonds, all for the five minutes onstage when they were goddesses.
‐‐ Molly Crabapple

Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society - not the whole outlook, and they are not the only ones to mold the outlook of society, but they have an important role to play there.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi

Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.
‐‐ James Howell

'Burn Notice' is a show that definitely has some levity to it and it's a fun show, but it's also, you fully believe, you're fully invested that Michael Westen does this stuff. You want Michael Westen on your team.
‐‐ Tricia Helfer

Burn the flag; that's a freedom. Then I have the freedom to take it away from them and tell them how dumb they are.
‐‐ Marcus Luttrell

Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.
‐‐ Bill Nye

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
‐‐ Marsha Sinetar

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.
‐‐ Marge Piercy

Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It could be semaphore. And burning a flag is a symbol that expresses an idea - I hate the government, the government is unjust, whatever.
‐‐ Antonin Scalia

Burnout comes easy in the high-pressure world of television, and when the opportunity arose to move to Las Vegas and bring my friends and star chefs to open their restaurants at the Venetian, I made the move here.
‐‐ Robin Leach

Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.
‐‐ Grant Morrison

Burpees are great, but they just kill you.
‐‐ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

Burroughs is crap. Crap.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.
‐‐ Brendan Fraser

Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.
‐‐ Harvey Milk

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.
‐‐ Sydney Pollack

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
‐‐ Phyllis Diller

Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.
‐‐ Randy Bachman