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

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.

B. B. King

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• In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Hope
  • Culture
  • Best

• We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Live
  • Done
  • Day

• Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Earth

• One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Best
  • Film
  • Leadership

• Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Pain
  • Brain
  • Feel

• Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Ego
  • Self
  • Autobiography

• I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Like

• People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mistake

• I'm not politically correct.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Politically Correct

• I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

  

  Karen O
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Through

• For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • You
  • Mean
  • Three

• From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Book
  • Age
  • Wine

• In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Kind
  • Fall
  • Boy

• I believe in aging gracefully.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Aging

• It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Earth
  • Research

• Reading is power. Reading is life.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Power
  • Reading

• If we finally chose as a country to take responsibility for the wars that we believe we must engage in, and rather than borrow money to exercise that authority to go to war, we actually pay for these wars, that would save us over a trillion dollars, because that's what we have spent in Iraq and Afghanistan - all through borrowed money.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Money

• Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Thanks
  • Number
  • Honey

• I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Mind
  • Person
  • Walking

• Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea which demands that not only a small elite but humanity at large should profit by it.

  

  Rudolf Christoph Eucken
  • Humanity
  • Idea
  • More

• One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Life
  • School
  • Home

• I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.

  

  B. B. King
  • Person
  • Idea
  • Blues