Quotations

"To turn, turn will be our delight, ‘Till by turning, turning we come round right."

— Joseph Brackett Jr., American songwriter, born 1797

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."

— Ray Bradbury, American author, born 1920

"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down."

— Ray Bradbury, American author, born 1920

"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."

— Ray Bradbury, American science fiction writer, born 1920

"You save your strength for your positive vision. You save your courage for the conditions in America that need to be improved, whether it is child poverty or a lack of insurance for people. You save your ingenuity for figuring out ways to convince Americans that this is the direction we should go. You don't waste all that on simply making a negative attack against your opponent."

— Bill Bradley, Democratic U.S. Senator, born 1943

"Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good."

— John Bradshaw, American theologian, born 1933

"I define a 'good person' as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their 'shadow' - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them."

— John Bradshaw, American theologian, born 1933

"Braille is knowledge, and knowledge is power."

— Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille, born 1809

"Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave."

— Constantin Brancusi, Romanian-French sculptor, born 1876

"What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things. It is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface."

— Constantin Brancusi, Romanian-French sculptor, born 1876

"If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle."

— Marlon Brando, American actor, born 1924

"If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this. See the subject first. Do not try to force it to be a picture of this, that or the other thing. Stand apart from it. Then something will happen. The subject will reveal itself."

— Bill Brandt, German-English photographer, born May 2, 1904

"Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry."

— Georges Braque, French painter, born 1882

"Art is a wound turned into light."

— Georges Braque, French painter, born 1882