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

I never use that word, retire.

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• I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Men
  • Women
  • Politics

• The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Up
  • Home
  • Step

• Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

  

  Sam Brown
  • People
  • You
  • Style

• A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • She
  • Woman
  • Struggle

• We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • World
  • Believe
  • Economy

• I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Hard
  • Word
  • Worked

• I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Taken
  • Care
  • Better

• No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Great
  • Law
  • Desire

• It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Fool
  • More
  • Take

• I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Hope

• I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.

  

  Indiana Evans
  • Great
  • Always
  • Thought

• Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Great
  • Game
  • Change

• One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Great
  • Home
  • Fake

• God invented love, and it is therefore perfect, and dogs are better at celebrating this perfection than we are. When in doubt as to how we should feel, we could do far worse than trying to live life like the dogs.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Feel

• I like movies in particular, on video or T.V. I have lots of old favorites, like Danny Kaye in 'The Court Jester' or 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' or James Stewart in 'Winchester '73.' But I also like a lot of modern films.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Life
  • Movies
  • Old

• I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Star
  • Organization
  • New England Patriots

• A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are poor, uneducated, and unskilled.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Perception
  • Poor
  • Immigration

• In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Dance
  • Yoga
  • Hippie

• I'm 30. I'm not that young, right? I'm not, like, 24 or 22. I'm no longer in the phase of my life where I talk about everything as in the future. Like, I'm in the future.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Life
  • Future
  • My Life

• Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Trying
  • Couple
  • Years

• All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • God
  • Me
  • Never

• I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Become

• After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Night
  • Water
  • Myself

• I never use that word, retire.

  

  B. B. King
  • Never
  • Word
  • Retire