B. C. Forbes Quotes

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

B. C. Forbes

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• I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Think
  • Ideas
  • Look

• I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Up
  • Done
  • Look

• Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Support
  • Look

• If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Career
  • You
  • Doing

• I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.

  

  Barry Zito
  • People
  • Look
  • Forward

• Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • You
  • Look
  • Leap

• If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Bad
  • Look
  • Same

• Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Mirror
  • Face
  • Photographer

• Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Food
  • Look
  • Eat

• Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Fashion
  • Look
  • Clothes

• Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'

  

  Ice Cube
  • Good
  • End
  • Look

• It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Bad
  • Look
  • Busy

• I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Done
  • Look
  • Routine

• Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Rest

• Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Doing
  • Look

• I mean, like, I can go in a room and say, look, 'Watchmen' should be at least 15 minutes longer than 'Batman.' I mean, that's, like, any geek will tell you that.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • You
  • Look
  • I Can

• The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Painting
  • Look
  • Craft

• I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.

  

  Oxana Chusovitina
  • Children
  • Running
  • Wind

• I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Personality
  • Look
  • Possible

• I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Look

• In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

  

  Phil Donahue
  • Important
  • Things
  • Look

• Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird.

  

  Willow Smith
  • Bird
  • Compare

• I learned early on – I can go to a shoot, and they will put anything they want to put on me, and I'll look like an idiot because I didn't say I don't like it. It's OK to have an opinion.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Want
  • Opinion
  • Learned

• Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Look
  • Mirror
  • Angel