Famous Quotes & Sayings

Branch Rickey

Worry is simply thinking the same thing over and over again and not doing anything about it.

Brandi Carlile

I've read and heard that some of the most inspiring vocal interpreters adhere habitually to one rule: Always think the lyrics as you're singing them, so that the sentiment is always appropriate and heartfelt.

Brandi Carlile

The first thing I think of when I think about coming to Las Vegas and playing is always Elvis; its always the first thing on my mind.

Brandi Carlile

Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band.

Brandon Cox

Respect people who trust you. It takes a lot for people to trust you, so treat their trust like precious porcelain.

Brandon Boyd

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

Brandon Boyd

I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate.

Brandon Boyd

Someone will inevitably find something wrong in almost everything, so do what it is that you do best and remember to have enough tolerance for two.

Brandon Boyd

I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstance and chance : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?

Brandon Boyd

I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty.

Bram Stoker

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.

Bram Stoker

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

Bram Stoker

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

Bram Stoker

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

Bram Stoker

I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.

Boomer Esiason

We don’t have the plumbing to take care of what needs to be taken care of.

Boomer Esiason

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Booth Tarkington

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink

Boris Becker

Andre Sa is playing close to his potential - maybe even above it.

Boris Becker

I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.

Boris Becker

It's not that difficult to play well and win titles in a team like Barcelona, but it's in the national side where you see a player's true class. That was the case with figures like Pele, Diego Maradona and Zinedine Zidane. With Spain, Iniesta has shown that he is among the best players of all time and that's why I rate him higher than Messi or Ronaldo. Even though the latter two have incredible scoring records for their clubs, they still haven't won anything with Argentina or Portugal respectively.

Boris Becker

The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.

Boozoo Chavis

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

Boozoo Chavis

I'm not trying to be something I ain't. That's right. I'm me.

Bootsy Collins

When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality.

Bootsy Collins

I guess some of today's programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together and then setting time around for recording.

Bootsy Collins

Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.

Bootsy Collins

Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully.

Bootsy Collins

The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.

Bootsy Collins

Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I'm saying funk is anything that we create in our minds that we want to do, what we want to be, but we don't have the resources.

Boris Kodjoe

I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom.

Boris Kodjoe

When you work as actors in this business, you spend a lot of time apart. That's why a lot of marriages fail. It's not because of Hollywood, it's because you don't spend time together.

Boris Johnson

I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.