#gh

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#audience #beautiful #billie #billie holiday #cool

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#civilization #climate #daily #dwellers #enjoyment

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. ↗

— Enid Bagnold

#doctor #goes #knows #man #much

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. ↗

— David Bailey

#every #every man #go #high #himself

I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light. ↗

— David Bailey

#around #because #hang #i #light

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#best #count #deeds #dial #feels

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#cold #excellence #highest #intellectual #mark

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money. ↗

— Beryl Bainbridge

#believe #bring #brought #children #drawn

One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour. ↗

— Colin Baker

#arm #diffuse #down #effects #fear

Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#celebrity #changed #dramatically #famous #gold