B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
-
My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.
-
A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.
-
I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
-
I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
-
I think that you can love people without it being the great love.
-
To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
-
I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
-
I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.
-
When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
-
People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
-
There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.
-
I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
-
As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward.
-
There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently.
-
I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.
-
Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
-
There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.
-
My work at R.E.I. was incredibly fulfilling and rewarding, especially the stewardship elements of it, the ability to connect young people to public lands close to home.
-
I made people laugh as a kid, but that's not how you make a living.
-
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
-
The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clergyman; for them also, the woman judge might often surpass the man in penetration and understanding.
-
But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.
-
If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
