List of Topics starting with [B]

Herbs carried in special baskets, bread wrapped in knotted, muslin cloths, thick stews soured with unripe grape juice, carrots boiled with sugar and rosewater, yoghurt ...

I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted in his lawyer's ...

I grew up very poor in a fractured family that was dysfunctional on both sides, but I sort of put up these reflectors to most ...

Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist's chair - but more enjoyable.

So take a breath and find what is unsolved in your heart.Breathe in patience, breathe in love.Love yourself bountiful.And send that love out to others.When ...

When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological ...

It's hard to say which I like more, the perfectly happy days or the hours right after we've ended a good fight.

It's like the Negro in America seeing the white man win all the time.He's a professional gambler; he has all the cards and the odds ...

When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure ...

If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, ...

People should be concerned about installing a more sensible, responsible government. What we [the burmese] need is a government that is accountable and transparent, so ...

It really is the best feeling in the world when everything that used to make you dizzy with desire becomes so wedged in your life ...

Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it's only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not ...

But today is better than yesterday. And this hurt is still a hole in me, but it's a shrinking hole.

Hell hath no fury like a queen scorned. ... ... That would be the last time he made a crack about being a flamer to ...

The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people ...

I really think more about being honest and truthful about feelings and how people behave for the movies that I direct, but I also love ...

I got my SAG card when I was 10 by starring in a Beenie Weenie's commercial.

Some animalistic, eerie courtier. Who had caused her amulet to glow.

I kept my door more securely locked than ever and passed the time with foreign novels. Since Balzac was Luo's favourite I put him to ...

I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff - we love him ...

When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a ...

I don't actually breakdance.

Jacque snorted. "Lucy, esplain this mess." she used her best Ricky Ricardo voice.

The gentleman will sit! The gentleman is correct in sitting!

Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no difference between practice ...

She often had a temper that made a PMS-ing harpy going into nicotine withdrawal look like a chubby fuzzy bunny that burped daisies and shot ...

If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! ...

Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses ... in effect, they tax you for their accidents, ...

I have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless.

A gut full of heroin and the looming possibility of bunking in an overcrowded cell in Kerobokan to await my death makes you feel a ...

For all its imagined moments, literature works in unimaginable ways.

A ceremony honoring the memory of BAIL ORGANA has drawn the Senate together in rare harmony. It is a day of celebration, but even now, ...

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what ...

He'd never known a girl who was so beautiful and intense at once.

Despise no new accident in your body, but ask opinion of it ... There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A ...

With my sometimes blunt indecent vocabulary & very vivid imagination, I wonder if I should be writing "other" kinds of content.

When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.

My only non-acting job was being a barista at Coffee Bean. While I was in college, and I had a blast! I loved making drinks ...

The nostalgic is never a native but a displaced person who mediates between the local and the universal.

Possible things aren't worth much, it's those crazy impossible things that keep us passionate and alive.

Michael Jackson doesn't really belong on this planet. He's the most important figure in the history of music. He'll be remembered far longer than George ...

I think JLo and iggy azalea have lost their heads up each other's big butts,

Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which one must step ...

I believe there is no one principle which predominates in human nature so much in every stage of life, from the cradle to the grave, ...

When you're a comic, it's like being born gay. It's what you want to do every night when your other friends are out at night ...

I always wished there was somebody like the Coen Brothers and they appeared. And so yeah, my favorite role that I've ever done was in ...

Sometimes it's best to hide in plain sight.

The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.

I note the lengths to which Christianist groups are prepared to go to, to influence government and to network hate-churches in order to get their ...

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has ...

Tonight feels like a board game co-designed by M. C. Escher on a bender and Stephen King in a fever.

The beginning of love is all about the butterflies, but the end of it is when you can't get out of bed in the morning.

This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to ...

Curiously, the most serious religious people, or the most concerned scholars, those who constantly read the Bible as a matter of professional or pious duty, ...

Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before ...

I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard ...

For Michael Wright and Frank Darabont to cast me as the ultimate good guy and Eddie Burns as the ultimate bad guy, and really switching ...

My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works ...

If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was ...

I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at ...

There are moments when you think you will cry forever. You never do. Eventually, sheer physical exhaustion forces you to stop, to settle, to becalm ...

I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I may safely say ...

I cry and watch Pitch Perfect and sing along with the Barden Bellas. I don't want to be a person who knows the name of ...

A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like to do. Why? It figures! In order to afford the ...

Stood at the door zipping, buttoning, fastening; it's what people in Wyoming do before they go outside in late December.

Tarryton did so, but not before saying, "I wouldn't be surprised if Billington came up to scratch on this gel.""Billington, Farnsworth, and a few others," ...

Instead of blue skies and sunshine, there are grey clouds and endless rain that seeps into your bones, your soul.

I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I ...

Raise your standards for the one thing over which you have complete controlyourse lf. It means you're committed to being intelligent, flexible, and creative enough ...

Of huddled anonymity like old black and white photos I'd seen of bank crashes and bread lines in the 1930s.

And few hookups, if any, ever take place sober. And while wearing "beer goggles" may make people appear more attractive, it doesn't exactly make for ...

She'd always been blunt, to the point that people sometimes mistook her for cold. In truth, she was one of the warmest people he had ...

I closed my eyes," he repeated after a few shallow breahts, "and imagined she was you.

The time for crying with your girlfriends about a broken heart is over chocolate ice creamand chick flicks - not stun guns and bulletproof vests.

The case of the Baconians is not won until it has been proved that the substitution of covetousness for wantlessness, or an ascending spiral of ...

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

What do you have in this car?" he asked."What do you mean, like weapons?""That would be a good start.""Well, I 've got a mini Swiss ...

In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, ...

That was what it meant, didn't it. Being good. You didn't have to sink wells in Burkina Faso. You didn't have to give away your ...

We spend too much time concealing our neediness. We need to stop hiding. Being needy is our basic condition. There is no shame in it ...

Well, now that I have a baby, I'm that person who's looking for all the parks. I'm also the person who lost their coat because ...

Woof," he said sadly. "Poor Hound," said Batty. "Poor Hound, indeed." Mr. Penderwick was not sympathetic. "Even he should know not to eat towels.

You wanted happiness, I can't blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you ...

Say 'Hello' in tones that bespeak how pleased you are to have the person call.

The fascination of somebody with original creative gifts is something that's always drawn me. I get attached to them, but I can't call it being ...

Who preceded him, he enjoyed her sexual calisthenics,

The day which we fear is out last is buth the birthday of eternity

They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her ...

Funny thing about glass. When you broke the shit up, it got pissed and bit back.

SCIENCE! thou fair effusive rayFrom the great source of mental Day,Free, generous, and refin'd!Descend with all thy treasures fraught,Illumine each bewilder'd thought,And bless my labour'g ...

Borkin: Ladies and gentlemen, why are you so glum? Sitting there like a jury after it's been sworn in! ... Let's think up something. What ...

Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time.

The foundation of self-confidence, the basis of boldness and self-assertion, is a deep inner trust, based on living a life of perfect integrity, and disciplining ...

The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.

In all my years on earth, I have seen time and time again that those who are the happiest are those who have the courage ...

But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.

At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.