B.B. King Quotes

God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?

Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying.

I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.

If I'm in a corner, I like my corner. It's the coolest corner I've ever been in.

Don't give me what I ask for, give me what I need.

A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.

Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

It's going to take an act of Congress to deal with poverty and hunger, not only in this country, but throughout the world. We have the resources but we don't have the will.

The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.

Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding.

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

I ... started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.

It is hard to know which is the more remarkable- that it took 600 million years for the Earth to make its oil, or that it took 300 years to use it up.

Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?

I made it, Ma - Carnegie Hall. And I didn't have to practice.

I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves.

A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.

How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

A right delayed is a right denied.

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.

It was like drowning, only from the inside out.

Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?

It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.

The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.

Belief in the supernatural or belief in wild talents like precognition and telepathy and telekinesis and things like that, it seems to me that belief in those things is just very, very freeing.

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.

It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.

Why can't we all just get along?

The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing, is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you didnt know was in you.

The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through.

Hate heals, you should try it sometime.

Civility is the art and act of caring for others.

There are no truths. Only stories.

You're beautiful as you feel.

A little of what you like does you good. But you can have too much of a good thing.

We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.

Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.