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B. B. King Quotes

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.

B. B. King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Family Child People Loved Problem

I want to play some really good, interesting, crazy characters. I want to take some chances. I want to take risks. I want to have fun and just keep working. That's all I really care about.

Andie MacDowell

Good Fun Risks Crazy Have Fun Care

Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity.

Robert H. Schuller

History Voice Name Seriously Will

I don't perceive my role as a newsman at all. I'm a comedian from stem to stern. You can cut me open and count the rings of jokes.

Stephen Colbert

Me You Open Jokes Rings Count

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Solomon Schechter

You Want Everything Anything Cannot

My dad was phenomenal. Born in Mexico, lived poor, didn't graduate from college, and becomes head of a car company and then governor of a state. I can't imagine I would have ever thought about running for office had I not seen my dad do it.

Mitt Romney

Car College Thought Born Poor Head

Some kids are good at math, some kids can run, and acting was an interest of mine. Because I knew you could do it for a living I decided, that's what I'm going to do.

Jonny Lee Miller

Good You Acting Living Run Going

Of course, people will be partial, but I put myself among the best in history.

Jose Aldo

History Myself Best People Will Put

I'm a hip-hop showrunner.

Cheo Hodari Coker

Hip-Hop

In 2007, several musicologists contacted me at about the same time, expressing interest in the work of the mysterious Muriel Herbert, a few of whose songs they had come across.

Claire Tomalin

Work Time Me Mysterious Same Whose

Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.

Portia de Rossi

Yourself Dress World Think Present

Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.

Peter Lindbergh

Women Beginning Tool Chosen Century

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

Paula Cole

Death Me My Own Awards Own Sit