B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

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• There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Me
  • Nothing

• I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Face
  • Changing

• The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Money
  • Problem
  • Baseball

• I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Problem
  • Yourself
  • Calm

• All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Thought
  • Human
  • White

• And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Beautiful
  • Green
  • Tourism

• It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Path

• When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Up
  • God
  • City

• My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Want
  • Sin
  • Paint

• There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Teach
  • Something
  • Excellent

• I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Myself

• If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • World
  • Language
  • Someone

• The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • English
  • End
  • Personal

• I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • House
  • Me
  • Weight

• I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Feeling
  • Running
  • Far

• I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

  

  Dan Rather
  • World
  • America
  • War

• I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kids
  • House
  • Small

• I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful decolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Great
  • Age

• The musical based on my life would most likely be called 'Something Fabulous.' 'Something Fabulous' - that's a great title!

  

  Megan Hilty
  • Life
  • Great

• If you're going to help somebody, sneak in, sneak out, do what you can. I just sneak along and do my thing and meet wonderful people, some people I've never met, new friends.

  

  Bobby Orr
  • People
  • Friends
  • Help

• The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• I'm alright with people making up stuff about me, but not when there's a woman involved.

  

  Varun Dhawan
  • People
  • Up

• We are sufficiently conscious of this dimension or quality of Brazil as a melting pot, as a culture and a nation that is being subjected to an amalgamating process. More than just a mixing process, it is an amalgamation where the fragments, the parts in collision, really interact profoundly. They become another thing after the contact.

  

  Gilberto Gil
  • Quality
  • Conscious
  • Fragments

• I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

  

  B. B. King
  • Friends
  • Me
  • Angry