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

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• During the morning rush hour on March 20, 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo placed packages on five subway trains converging on Tokyo's central station. When punctured, the packages spread vaporized Sarin through the subway cars and then into the stations as the trains pulled in.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Morning
  • Japanese
  • March

• I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Myself
  • Hard
  • Critic

• I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Family
  • College
  • Proud

• I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • People
  • Die
  • Day

• I watch a lot of television. I always have.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Always
  • Television
  • Watch

• I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Trying
  • School
  • Law

• Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Always
  • Once
  • Cubs

• I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • New
  • Involved

• I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Life
  • Time
  • My Life

• People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • People
  • Try
  • Comfortable

• Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Broken
  • Bread

• I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Love
  • American
  • America

• From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Greatest
  • Irony
  • Horrors

• There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Home

• Wearing khadi was a badge of honour. It was something one was proud to do.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Proud
  • Something
  • Honour

• Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • World
  • Man
  • Like

• Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Home
  • Hope
  • Age

• While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.

  

  Maimonides
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Man

• Before all this happened, I always used to see my stammer as being a negative, all my life, but then when I went on 'Pop Idol,' and the first time I saw it on television, it was really, really bad, but also it made me stand out; it made people remember me. So for the first time in my life, it worked to my advantage.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• He is a prophet and not a poet and therefore his Koran is to be seen as Divine Law, and not as a book of a human being made for education or entertainment.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Book
  • Education
  • Law

• Why should we try for space travel? It cannot be a substance of any kind that can be expected to pay. It can only be something intangible, not involving haulage, which is at the same time more valuable. There is something like that: Knowledge.

  

  Willy Ley
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Valuable

• We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.

  

  Neil Sheehan
  • Good

• Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me.

  

  Cathy Freeman
  • People
  • Attention
  • Fantastic

• Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

  

  B. B. King
  • Die
  • Heaven
  • Go