B. B. King Quotes

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.

B. B. King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 16, 1925 - May 14, 2015

Topics

MotherMeNobodySheTooCould

Our humanitarian aid system is sick and needs to be fixed. It needs to get a reality check and get back humanity.

Joanne Liu

SickRealityHumanityBackSystem

I was told when I went for a life-insurance exam when I was 18 that I was not likely to live past 50, so I refused to pay the premium.

Jeffrey Tate

LivePastPayExamPremiumLikely

I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.

John Hawkes

TryMeanLimitVisibilityAbout

People do all sorts of things impulsively and follow those impulses into strange places.

John Darnielle

PeopleStrangePlacesFollowThings

I love talking about taxes.

Michael Arrington

LoveTalkingTaxesAboutI Love

I will admit, it's so intoxicating working with Steve Carrell. Creatively and professionally.

Amy Ryan

AdmitWillWorkingIntoxicating

Project 523 was both a good and a bad thing. They held so many meetings, and there were so many competing centres, it was a real mess. Nearly every province had their own research centre, and they all asked me to share my research, which I did. But that's no way to do science. They wasted a lot of money and a lot of time.

Tu Youyou

GoodScienceTimeMoneyMeResearch

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

Tom Robbins

WisdomHumorEvilSurvivalSerious

My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.

Russell Baker

GlassesDoingDarkNobodyStreet

Actors are actors. They're all buddies. I've done so many movies and TV that you get to be friends with everyone. And the ones you don't get to be friends with, you simply don't work together with them again.

Michael Rooker

WorkTogetherFriendsYouDoneGet

I'm such a strong believer in making yourself happy. Almost in a selfish way. There are a lot of trends, and obviously you can get swept up into them. But I feel like if you just write songs you love, it can have trap beats in it or whatever's going on in the moment, but you don't stop loving songs.

Dev Hynes

LoveMomentYourselfHappySelfish

With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree.

Christian Cooke

TimeYouAlwaysDegreeWorkingSome

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