#lon

The longer we were in it, the smaller it seemed to get. ↗

— William Beebe

#longer #seemed #smaller #were

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#comes #company #conversation #full #good

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. ↗

— Lyman Beecher

#chase #death #itself #lie #never

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#book #each #four #individual #long

It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#army #arrogance #because #been #boring

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#bible #bit #cell #consolation #could

I just have a lot of respect for Terry and his family. He played without a mask, and his life was tragically ended. And it just means a lot to me to be up there with him and the other greats that have played that long. ↗

— Ed Belfour

#family #greats #him #his #i

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

#closed #closes #door #long #look

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

#door #late #long #open #see

I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place. ↗

— William Bell

#blues #called #club #hat #high