A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an
optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
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He lurks in every flower.
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Bows down to wood and stone.
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My course be onward still.
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B. B. KING I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
B. B. KING I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
B. B. KING I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
B. B. KING The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
B. B. KING My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
B. B. KING Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
B. B. KING Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,...
B. B. KING As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha...
B. B. KING I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o...
B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ...
B. B. KING When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P...
B. B. KING Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
B. B. KING When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So ...
B. B. KING In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caug...
B. B. KING It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asl...
B. B. KING I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two...
B. B. KING I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her t...
B. B. KING Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then...
B. B. KING I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that ...
B. B. KING I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking ...
B. B. KING You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
B. B. KING I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many ...
B. B. KING Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but ...
B. B. KING I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unle...
B. B. KING I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who ...
B. B. KING What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, ...
B. B. KING I never use that word, retire.
B. B. KING I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. KING The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands h...
B. B. KING I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew the...
B. B. KING Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and the...
B. B. KING A lot of people believe what other people say.
B. B. KING If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're ...
B. B. KING I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
B. B. KING When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ...
B. B. KING I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. KING I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KING I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. KING Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blue...
B. B. KING I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KING The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people...
B. B. KING I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. KING I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I li...
B. B. KING If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KING If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without ...
B. B. KING There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. KING Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. KING I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING I know I'm not everybody's cup of tea. I'm just me.
MEL B When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.
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B. WILBERFORCE There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.
B. QUILLIAM When the bold branches
Bid farewell to rainbow leaves -
Welcome wool sweaters.
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RUTH B No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcom...
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B. TRAVEN Think positively, the way you think will describe you.
ABHIYANDA B. Be afraid, when you feel always fearless
ABHIYANDA B. My mum enrolled me in this free dance class because I had so much energy in the night-time, and she ...
MEL B Don't try hard to explain, but try hard to prove it.
ABHIYANDA B. We lived in an age where fake is a must.
ABHIYANDA B. yepp it's ok, i know you dont care at all, but i still have to make you smile, cause i love seeing y...
ABHIYANDA B. I'm just me. I'm just very opinionated. I react to whatever I see. If it's good, it'...
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B. ALSTON In fact, life of the virtual world are the ones who wearing mask.
ABHIYANDA B. Don't judge me unfriendly, I'm not arrogant, I'm not shy
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ABHIYANDA B. You're a user that will never access the password to my heart
NATALIA B. Am I still a hero if the only person I save is
myself?
Am I still a villain if the only pe...
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B. SMITH We're all like rock, scissors and paper. unbeaten also can be defeated easily.
ABHIYANDA B. at least, make one proof of yourself, someday will be needed for your existence.
ABHIYANDA B. you can change your mood everyday but not with your feelings
ABHIYANDA B. If we never make it, then don't ever to fake it...
sometimes accepting a failure will make you be an...
ABHIYANDA B. I love J. K. Rowling. If I could meet any person, I would meet her.
RUTH B I thought it was a prank. There is no way six different major labels trying to reach out to me. But ...
RUTH B I went to my first drum n' bass rave when I was 16 and remember being terrified. Looking around,...
KATY B Peter Pan is kind of this metaphor for someone or something that makes you feel at home, that brings...
RUTH B Her eyes were the color of whiskey and grace. Moments with her always felt like getting drunk on Sun...
B. DEVINE My brother and I do trivia quizzes all the time.
RUTH B This morning after yoga, I laid in the grass and watched the white clouds go by as the Earth turned ...
ERIKA B. What I wanted to make sure of is that I wasn't just tagged as a Viner.
RUTH B How lonely it is!
To be drowning,
in a place
where everyone can swim.
B. DAMANI There's a depth in you that has yet been discovered.
Abyssal and buried
it terrifies your ...
B. YOUNGZ I’d likte to welcome you to the land of free, where healthy, wealthy, happy people contribute to t...
B. BARMANBEK In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the ...
B. BARMANBEK She liked who she was becoming, despite the pain and frustration it brought.
B. BARMANBEK May you have the courage to choose love over hate.
LETA B. I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; sh...
KATY B The Savior was selfless. He viewed himself and his own needs as secondary, and he ministered to othe...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the min...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN To me, integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action...
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