This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years t...
ALICE B. TOKLAS The carp was dead, killed, assassinated, murdered in the first, second and third degree. Limp, I fel...
ALICE B. TOKLAS What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken...
ALICE B. TOKLAS I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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 Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.
ALICE TEMPERLEY The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
ALICE WATERS When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit...
ALICE OSWALD I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this tim...
ALICE WALKER I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire...
ALICE WALKER It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated...
ALICE WALKER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new ...
ALICE DREGER One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of i...
ALICE OSWALD The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye ...
ALICE OSWALD I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of hor...
ALICE WALTON It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand.
ALICE WALKER I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.
ALICE SEBOLD My father loved 'Godard and Truffaut.' He was more artsy. My mom loved the 'Bourne' ...
ALICE BRAGA What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the int...
ALICE MCDERMOTT You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city wi...
ALICE COOPER If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with fo...
ALICE WALKER How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house th...
ALICE WALKER We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.
ALICE BLOCH Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how I'd describe my style.
ALICE TEMPERLEY I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am...
ALICE POTTER I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean mys...
ALICE ENGLERT I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If every...
ALICE BRAGA The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any
ALICE WALKER Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
ALICE WALKER Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make you...
ALICE WALKER I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have
ALICE WALKER Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that tre...
ALICE WALKER I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some...
ALICE WALKER It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth...
ALICE KOLLER The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.
ALICE COOPER In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways,...
ALICE WALKER Housework never really bothered me... what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be...
ALICE MUNRO I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce ...
ALICE MILLER The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native gro...
ALICE WALKER She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch...
ALICE WALKER The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
ALICE WALKER For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that t...
ALICE WALKER A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of ye...
ALICE MEYNELL Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can writ...
ALICE WALKER The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where doe...
ALICE JAMES It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the childr...
ALICE WALKER One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any ...
ALICE JAMES The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
ALICE MEYNELL Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because...
ALICE LOWE When I'm doing the first draft, I have a so-much-a-day schedule. But when I start putting it on the ...
ALICE MUNRO The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the thin...
ALICE MUNRO The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about yo...
ALICE MUNRO That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
ALICE MUNRO Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat differ...
ALICE MUNRO The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is ea...
ALICE MUNRO We have met numerous times as a neighborhood. We are united in our opposition.
ALICE MOORE These men, whether laicized, defrocked, or restricted from ministry, continue to pose a threat to al...
ALICE MOORE I thought if someone is willing to donate them, we're willing to take them. It never hurts to ask.
ALICE MOORE We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title bo...
ALICE MOORE Having separate proceedings will allow the NRC to fully assess the specific characteristics of each ...
ALICE MOORE We were very concerned about a monopoly and really focused on opportunities to bring new retailers t...
ALICE MOORE Our goal here is to provide low prices on high-quality products and excellent services to consumers ...
ALICE MOORE The goal here is to provide opportunities for new retailers to enter our marketplace.
ALICE MOORE The capacity of the human organism to bear pain is, for our own protection, limited. All attempts to...
ALICE MILLER The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painfu...
ALICE MILLER ,,,It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has ...
ALICE MILLER A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about ...
ALICE MILLER When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy an...
ALICE MILLER If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take th...
ALICE MILLER Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
ALICE MILLER Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, ma...
ALICE MILLER Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regressio...
ALICE MILLER Flocks of the memories of the day draw near / The dovecot doors of sleep.
ALICE MEYNELL I must not think of thee; and, tired yet strong, / I shun the thought that lurks in all delight - / ...
ALICE MEYNELL Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind
ALICE MEYNELL Recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it w...
ALICE MEYNELL Holy Saturday All night had shouts of men and cry Of woeful women filled His way; Until that noon ...
ALICE MEYNELL Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Continuing a short series of vers...
ALICE MEYNELL Given, not lent, And not withdrawn, once sent, This Infant of mankind, this One, Is still the lit...
ALICE MEYNELL Some parents, even really good parents, don't think to start that soon. During the Week of the Young...
ALICE MCGREW One of the messages we want to get across ... is when children do not get what they need it is a ref...
ALICE MCGREW It is a community issue, not just parents.
ALICE MCGREW All parents want their children to succeed in school. They just don't know how to help them. When yo...
ALICE MCGREW I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith their denomination and ...
ALICE MCCARTHY The idea of it is to examine religious issues. They (panelist) are radical in the sense that they go...
ALICE MCCARTHY They call us to action to love each other. Just in the correspondence I've been having with them, I ...
ALICE MCCARTHY I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I thin...
ALICE MCCARTHY I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith â€Ã...
ALICE MCCARTHY When we bring something in, we usually only bring three or four pieces in.
ALICE MARQUARDT A lot of these customers are our friends.
ALICE MARQUARDT She wants personal service -- somebody who knows her name and somebody who knows her size.
ALICE MARQUARDT She's a woman who probably can afford a little bit better clothes that fit her well and make her fee...
ALICE MARQUARDT If you haven't got anything good to say about anyone come and sit by me.
ALICE LONGWORTH The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
ALICE LONGWORTH If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me
ALICE LONGWORTH He [Calvin Coolidge] looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.
ALICE LONGWORTH He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle
ALICE LONGWORTH My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby ...
ALICE LONGWORTH Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.
ALICE LONGWORTH I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
ALICE LONGWORTH I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development
ALICE LONGWORTH If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
ALICE LONGWORTH I think it's an interesting study. It's certainly very well done, but it raises a lot of questions.
ALICE LICHTENSTEIN That's always the benefit of labeling -- it's not just that people read the label but that it really...
ALICE LICHTENSTEIN