Edward B. Eastwick quote: "Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll, Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole.

I don’t have to convince anyone that I love you.
DOMINIQUE EASTWICK

I think you’ll find since I already love you, your Siren’s serenade will have no effect on me.
DOMINIQUE EASTWICK

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 year...
EDWARD B. BUTLER

We have need of patience with ourselves and with others; with those below and those above us, and wi...
EDWARD B. PUSEY

Into God's hands let us now -- for the coming year, and for all the years of time, and for Eternity ...
EDWARD B. PUSEY

One man has enthusiasm !0 minutes, another !0 days, but it is the man who has it !0 years who makes ...
EDWARD B. BUTLER

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

The person of wisdom is the person of years.
EDWARD

The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD

Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
EDWARD

I know I'm not everybody's cup of tea. I'm just me.
MEL B

When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.
MEL B

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be n...
B. TRAVEN

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight ...
B. WILBERFORCE

There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.
B. QUILLIAM

When the bold branches
Bid farewell to rainbow leaves -
Welcome wool sweaters.
B. CYBRILL

I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I...
KATY B

I love clubbing - the abandon of it, the release of dancing, and being with my friends and the peopl...
KATY B

I came up with, 'I am a lost boy from Neverland, usually hanging out with Peter Pan' and rec...
RUTH B

I went down to my keyboard and was playing random chords, and the one line I kept repeating was, ...
RUTH B

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcom...
B. DODGE

I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon...
RUTH B

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be ...
B. TRAVEN

Think positively, the way you think will describe you.
ABHIYANDA B.

Be afraid, when you feel always fearless
ABHIYANDA B.

My mum enrolled me in this free dance class because I had so much energy in the night-time, and she ...
MEL B

Don't try hard to explain, but try hard to prove it.
ABHIYANDA B.

We lived in an age where fake is a must.
ABHIYANDA B.

yepp it's ok, i know you dont care at all, but i still have to make you smile, cause i love seeing y...
ABHIYANDA B.

I'm just me. I'm just very opinionated. I react to whatever I see. If it's good, it'...
MEL B

When Duncan did arrive a half hour later, I hugged him and didn't let go. He seemed a little embarra...
B. ALSTON

In fact, life of the virtual world are the ones who wearing mask.
ABHIYANDA B.

Don't judge me unfriendly, I'm not arrogant, I'm not shy i just like quietness, cause i can nurture ...
ABHIYANDA B.

You're a user that will never access the password to my heart
NATALIA B.

Am I still a hero if the only person I save is
myself?
Am I still a villain if the only pe...
B. DAMANI

He(Prophet Muhammad) was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar ...
B. SMITH

We're all like rock, scissors and paper. unbeaten also can be defeated easily.
ABHIYANDA B.

at least, make one proof of yourself, someday will be needed for your existence.
ABHIYANDA B.

you can change your mood everyday but not with your feelings
ABHIYANDA B.

If we never make it, then don't ever to fake it... sometimes accepting a failure will make you be an...
ABHIYANDA B.

I love J. K. Rowling. If I could meet any person, I would meet her.
RUTH B

I thought it was a prank. There is no way six different major labels trying to reach out to me. But ...
RUTH B

I went to my first drum n' bass rave when I was 16 and remember being terrified. Looking around,...
KATY B

Peter Pan is kind of this metaphor for someone or something that makes you feel at home, that brings...
RUTH B

Her eyes were the color of whiskey and grace. Moments with her always felt like getting drunk on Sun...
B. DEVINE

My brother and I do trivia quizzes all the time.
RUTH B

This morning after yoga, I laid in the grass and watched the white clouds go by as the Earth turned ...
ERIKA B.

What I wanted to make sure of is that I wasn't just tagged as a Viner.
RUTH B

How lonely it is!
To be drowning,
in a place
where everyone can swim.
B. DAMANI

There's a depth in you that has yet been discovered.
Abyssal and buried
it terrifies your ...
B. YOUNGZ

I’d likte to welcome you to the land of free, where healthy, wealthy, happy people contribute to t...
B. BARMANBEK

In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the ...
B. BARMANBEK

She liked who she was becoming, despite the pain and frustration it brought.
B. BARMANBEK

May you have the courage to choose love over hate.
LETA B.

I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; sh...
KATY B

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of n...
EDWARD HOPPER

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
EDWARD HOPPER

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
EDWARD HOPPER

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
EDWARD HOPPER

I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
EDWARD HOPPER

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
EDWARD HOPPER

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pu...
EDWARD HOPPER

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before...
EDWARD HOPPER

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested visio...
EDWARD HOPPER

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovati...
EDWARD HOPPER

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to ...
EDWARD HOPPER

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of...
EDWARD HOPPER

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impress...
EDWARD HOPPER

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this idea...
EDWARD HOPPER

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
EDWARD HOPPER

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result ...
EDWARD HOPPER

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance a...
EDWARD HOPPER

More of me comes out when I improvise.
EDWARD HOPPER

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
EDWARD HOPPER

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
EDWARD BOND

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four l...
EDWARD LEAR

The simple act of caring is heroic.
EDWARD ALBERT

I am all for the short and merry life.
EDWARD FITZGERALD

I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color o...
EDWARD BROOKE

I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structu...
EDWARD DMYTRYK

He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
EDWARD ALBEE

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
EDWARD KENNEDY

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on th...
EDWARD BOND

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory ...
EDWARD NORTON

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
EDWARD GREY

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely c...
EDWARD WESTON

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
EDWARD ALBERT

I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary qua...
EDWARD WITTEN

The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
EDWARD HIRSCH

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
EDWARD NORTON

Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but...
EDWARD HOAGLAND

Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
EDWARD YOUNG

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
EDWARD YOUNG

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
EDWARD YOUNG

All men think all men mortal but themselves.
EDWARD YOUNG

There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared! -
Two Owls and a Hen, EDWARD LEAR

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominat...
EDWARD HALL

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
EDWARD YOUNG

Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone a...
EDWARD HOAGLAND

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
EDWARD COKE

Virtue alone has majesty in death.
EDWARD YOUNG

Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly...
EDWARD YOUNG

Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll, Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole. - Edward B. Eastwick,

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