Sissela Bok

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect. Sissela Bok Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived. [...]

Selma Blair

I was a smoker for about 20 years. Selma Blair My first crush was Spock. I thought it didn’t get any better than Spock. Selma Blair God knows, I never want to hurt someone’s feelings. Selma Blair I don’t wanna play Karen. I just don’t. I’ve kind of done this. Selma Blair  

Steven Biko

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. Steven Biko So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are [...]

Shelley Berman

I am careful with my material and presentation. Shelley Berman Though it sold very well, I hated The Edge. Shelley Berman Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form. Shelley Berman While you’re improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, [...]

Saint Bernard

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. Saint Bernard I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind. Saint Bernard  

Sarah Bernhardt

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal. Sarah Bernhardt To be a good actor… it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished. Sarah Bernhardt What matters poverty? What [...]

Steven Jesse Bernstein

My relationship to gravity is permanently altered. Steven Jesse Bernstein

Sandra Bernhard

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness. Sandra Bernhard Gayness is a non-issue. Sandra Bernhard I can’t tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming. Sandra Bernhard Anything that has cynicism to it and that’s jaded is [...]

Sandy Berger

There’s been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there’s a price to pay. Sandy Berger

Silvio Berlusconi

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom. Silvio Berlusconi Bush will keep up that policy that gives the United State the role of promoting freedom in the world. Silvio Berlusconi I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention. [...]

Steven Berkoff

In London, nobody comments on what you wear – they think that’s not important to you or your state of well-being. Steven Berkoff The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers. Steven Berkoff A great opera house isn’t [...]

Shelley Berkley

I cannot understand for the life of me why DOE is going forward with this licensing procedure when we do not know whether or not the scientific documentation upon which you are basing your decisions is, in fact, flawed. Shelley Berkley Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would [...]

Stella Benson

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger. Stella Benson Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive. Stella Benson

Stephen Vincent Benet

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat. Stephen Vincent Benet Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. Stephen Vincent Benet We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. Stephen Vincent [...]

Saul Bellow

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that. Saul Bellow Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what’s in it – they should, because they put it all [...]

Simone de Beauvoir

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. Simone de Beauvoir Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. Simone de Beauvoir All oppression creates a state of war. Simone de Beauvoir I [...]

Samuel Beckett

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better. Samuel Beckett Habit is a great deadener. Samuel Beckett I can’t go on. I’ll go on. Samuel Beckett Words are all we have. Samuel Beckett All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, [...]

Stephen Bayley

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. Stephen Bayley In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. [...]

Standing Bear

Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard. Standing Bear And when native man left off this form of development, his humanization was retarded in growth. Standing Bear My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived – roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and [...]

Stephanie Beacham

I’m the one by the backdoor – I am not the one in the middle of the party. Stephanie Beacham Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I’ve only got to prevent it from getting worse. Stephanie Beacham I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their [...]

Samantha Bee

I don’t think the show would be funny to you if you didn’t already have a base of information. Samantha Bee I think NASCAR’s coming to Canada now so it’ll take on a whole new relevance. Be afraid. Samantha Bee There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, [...]

Sean Bean

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it. Sean Bean Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There’s an inherent goodness in most people. Don’t pre-judge people – that was me Mam’s advice anyway. Sean Bean I put quite a few trees in last autumn. [...]

Steven Bauer

Next? Growing up to be Clint Eastwood, I hope. Steven Bauer

Shirley Bassey

I hate it when people come up to me when I’m eating. Shirley Bassey It’s hard for a man to live with a successful woman – they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women. Shirley Bassey No wedding bells for me anymore. I’ve been [...]

Sammy Baugh

Of a very religious linebacker: He knocks the hell out of people, but in a Christian way. Sammy Baugh

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