Earl Blumenauer

Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting. Earl Blumenauer Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning [...]

Elizabeth Blackwell

It is not easy to be a pioneer – but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world. Elizabeth Blackwell Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development. Elizabeth Blackwell The idea of winning a doctor’s degree [...]

Elizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Elizabeth Bishop The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored. Elizabeth Bishop What childishness is it that while there’s breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to [...]

Edward Bok

The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible. Edward Bok It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence. Edward Bok The fact must never be forgotten [...]

Edward Blake

I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention. Edward Blake The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals. Edward Blake As far as I [...]

Elizabeth Bibesco

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing. Elizabeth Bibesco It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room. Elizabeth Bibesco Seeing through is rarely seeing into. Elizabeth Bibesco We often call [...]

Earl Derr Biggers

Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes. Earl Derr Biggers Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat’s ear. Earl Derr Biggers This is unexpected… like squirt from aggressive grapefruit. Earl Derr Biggers Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf. Earl Derr Biggers Do not wave stick when trying to [...]

Elmer Bernstein

There’s no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I’ve always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself. Elmer Bernstein I made my way on to a grey list, a black list even. That’s [...]

Ernest Bevin

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war. Ernest Bevin Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. Ernest Bevin The most conservative man in this world is the [...]

Edward Bernays

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Edward Bernays

Edward Bellamy

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second. Edward Bellamy The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual. Edward Bellamy I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857. Edward Bellamy  

Eric Bentley

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so. Eric Bentley Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas. Eric Bentley Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. Eric Bentley  

Ezra Taft Benson

Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order. Ezra Taft Benson Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. Ezra Taft Benson You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible! Ezra Taft Benson Bad experience is a school [...]

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Elizabeth Berkley

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too. Elizabeth Berkley I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself. Elizabeth Berkley

Edgar Bergen

So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn’t have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object! Edgar Bergen But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who [...]

Evan Bayh

Our success as a party will largely be determined by how well we do here in the heartland… The time has come to be secure about our values. The time has come to lead. Evan Bayh We should be proud of liberating the 26 million people in Iraq and should remember that this is why [...]

Eleanor Robson Belmont

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship – two of life’s major assets. Eleanor Robson Belmont A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. Eleanor Robson Belmont

Emmanuelle Beart

I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don’t know if what I’m doing is the right thing. But that’s the way I’m doing it. Emmanuelle Beart I give everything I have to give on [...]

E. T. Bell

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth. E. T. Bell The longer mathematics lives the more abstract – and therefore, possibly also the more practical – it becomes. E. T. Bell Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. E. T. Bell Fashion [...]

Ed Belfour

It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful. Ed Belfour My whole career I’m used to playing a lot of games. Ed Belfour One minute you’re a slug and the next minute you’re a hero, so you don’t know what to think. Ed Belfour When one [...]

Elgin Baylor

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part. Elgin Baylor If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan. Elgin Baylor

Edmund Barton

I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it. Edmund Barton The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is [...]

Elizabeth Barton

I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself. Elizabeth Barton Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned. Elizabeth Barton

Ethel Barrymore

The best time to make friends is before you need them. Ethel Barrymore You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. [...]

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