Leviak B. Kelly quote: "As noble (and often ignoble) creatures of the universe, the people of the world must acknowledge the nakedness of long held beliefs and be open to constructive criticism. Even if the criticism comes from within or without the structures held sacrosanct."

If ... you are looking for a large dose of truth with some all too human foibles and faults and long...
LEVIAK B. KELLY

We can not, therefore, reserve as sacred anything that is not truth and yet we cannot turn from thin...
LEVIAK B. KELLY

The cat is an obligate carnivore and it is in its nature that it must eat meat. This is corroborated...
LEVIAK B. KELLY

Cats were not and are not tool makers the way humans became toolmakers. They are specifically adapte...
LEVIAK B. KELLY

Why would anyone want to live in a cage when we are free persons? This is the point to make, when we...
LEVIAK B. KELLY

A cube or sphere has the characteristics of its form or shape, that is why one calls it a sphere or ...
LEVIAK B. KELLY

But a question needs to be asked, a basic logical scientific question. It is simply this, has anyone...
LEVIAK B. KELLY

There may be hostility and ambivalence, there may even be no responses and those are the worst becau...
LEVIAK B. KELLY

This is the strange thing about life, when people are confronted, they all say that the truth is wha...
LEVIAK B. KELLY

They talk about human rights until the rights include things they personally do not like as alternat...
LEVIAK B. KELLY

Adam is definitely said to be vegetarian and not only that but even after the fall, Adam is seen as ...
LEVIAK B. KELLY

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 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 only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are...
R. KELLY

Women aren't as mere as they used to be.
WALT KELLY

In like a dimwit, out like a light.
WALT KELLY

Every burden is a blessing.
WALT KELLY

Television can be a very fickle place.
MEGYN KELLY

There was no person, whether they thought I was too fat, too black, too country, too ghetto, too New...
KELLY PRICE

My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to v...
KELLY WEARSTLER

I think Miami is such a beautiful, sexy, gorgeous place. I love the people there.
MINKA KELLY

Everything happens for a reason. But I would love to still be at Clemson.
CHAD KELLY

Never give up on your dream... because you never know what the Lord can bless you with.
KELLY ROWLAND

I love seeing people's reactions to gifts that I've created from my line, such as my gold ho...
KELLY WEARSTLER

I'll be a flop in movies. Besides, I don't like 'em, and I never did believe there was a...
PATSY KELLY

In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing ...
PATSY KELLY

I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my &...
R. KELLY

I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the...
R. KELLY

I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But...
R. KELLY

When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something...
R. KELLY

Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
R. KELLY

If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That...
R. KELLY

You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaz...
R. KELLY

I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because...
R. KELLY

In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. Peo...
R. KELLY

I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people,...
R. KELLY

I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
R. KELLY

I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to me...
R. KELLY

Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated....
R. KELLY

You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seein...
R. KELLY

Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood phot...
R. KELLY

Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was insp...
R. KELLY

My greatest competition is, well, me.
R. KELLY

I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, bu...
R. KELLY

Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys arou...
R. KELLY

I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a l...
R. KELLY

I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
R. KELLY

Leaving the space station was bittersweet - I had been there for a long time and looked forward to l...
SCOTT KELLY

All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geom...
ELLSWORTH KELLY

The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young...
KELLY JONES

I am a karmayogi-someone who becomes conscious of herself and the Divine through work, not through m...
KELLY CUTRONE

I do sing in the car. I actually sing Britney Spears songs in the car - me and a close friend of min...
KELLY ROWLAND

Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like goin...
MARK KELLY

You're really earning the support of New Hampshire voters, and you've got to do that one-on-...
KELLY AYOTTE

But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.
MOIRA KELLY

As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our e...
SUE KELLY

Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a ...
SUE KELLY

Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no out...
SUE KELLY

I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm...
R. KELLY

There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. ...
KELLY SLATER

I remember trying to explain the class system to a Canadian friend when we started at RADA. The funn...
KATHERINE KELLY

But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of...
KEVIN KELLY

I am a light person. I think of myself with a shield, a protective shield around me. And I think of ...
KELLY BROOK

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of ce...
KEVIN KELLY

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.
KEVIN KELLY

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.
KELLY BROOK

We found Trent and pulled him off the leggy girl. “Trent, it’s time to get home before your pare...
AMANDA KELLY

This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year....
KELLY CUTRONE

Sometimes the fear of your soul's purpose is overridden by your heart's knowing that now is the time...
KELLY MARTIN

When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly s...
KELLY CUTRONE

We have met the enemy and it is us.
WALT KELLY

I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't belie...
BARBARA KELLY

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction that if we don't do th...
PETRA KELLY

What America needs is more young people who will carry to their jobs the same enthusiasm for getting...
M.A. KELLY

We have met the enemy and he is us.
WALT KELLY

Come, ye saints, look here and wonder, See the place where Jesus lay; He has burst His bands a...
THOMAS KELLY

I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small...
SUE KELLY

Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is.
KELLY LYNCH

The calluses on your feet in space will eventually fall off. So, the bottoms of your feet become ver...
SCOTT KELLY

Before turning 32 is an amazing time to do radical things. You figure out who you are while you figu...
KELLY CUTRONE

Just because you might have a sparring match on the air doesn't mean there's any personal an...
MEGYN KELLY

The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying.
KELLY PRESTON

Adjusting to space is easier than adjusting to Earth for me.
SCOTT KELLY

Why can't there be an acknowledgment that, in some instances, women remove themselves from the w...
MEGYN KELLY

Money's not important to me. Movie star acknowledgement is not important to me. I don't want...
MOIRA KELLY

Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which ...
MEGYN KELLY

I believe in exploration, and I will miss being on the front lines of that endeavor. On one hand, I ...
SCOTT KELLY

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy considera...
GENE KELLY

'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's...
R. KELLY

My style is understated because everything I wear, I want it to have an effortless feel to it. I alw...
TORI KELLY

So many people say you have to remember to grab hold of your bride or groom and spend time with them...
KATHERINE KELLY

When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I...
GAIL KELLY

It's really hard for me to memorize the medical jargon if I don't know the meaning of every ...
KELLY MCCREARY

There is no greater feeling than hanging out with my dogs, or just walking around the land with our ...
KELLY CLARKSON

I'm kind of a germ freak. When I get on a plane, I spray my seat and everything with Lysol Disin...
KELLY ROWLAND

I learned how to horseback ride in English style, which is very hard, by the way. I had no idea how ...
MINKA KELLY

In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.
MEGYN KELLY

I definitely start early and keep items in mind throughout the year for key people in my life. I lov...
KELLY WEARSTLER

Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not sta...
KELLY PRESTON

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to be...
WALT KELLY

When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginnin...
ELLSWORTH KELLY

I always took 'Coronation Street' a year at a time anyway. It was the 50th anniversary; I...
KATHERINE KELLY

For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I ...
KELLY MCGILLIS

Getting angry doesn't solve anything.
GRACE KELLY

You live your life day by day and find ways to get through it. You grow up through things that are c...
KELLY RUTHERFORD

I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, ther...
MEGYN KELLY

I don't have time to write a mom blog, but I'm not against it. I think it's great when w...
KELLY CUTRONE

As noble (and often ignoble) creatures of the universe, the people of the world must acknowledge the nakedness of long held beliefs and be open to constructive criticism. Even if the criticism comes from within or without the structures held sacrosanct.

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As noble (and often ignoble) creatures of the universe, the people of the world must acknowledge the nakedness of long held beliefs and be open to constructive criticism. Even if the criticism comes from within or without the structures held sacrosanct.

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