"My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in." — Jeff Bridges, American actor, born 1949
"Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't." — Jeff Bridges, American actor, born 1949
"I know that if odor were visible, as color is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds." — Robert Bridges, English poet, born 1844
"When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master." — Robert Bridges, English poet, born 1844
"We want Google to be the third half of your brain." — Sergey Brin, Russian-American computer scientist, born 1973
"Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine." — Sergey Brin, Russian-American computer scientist, born 1973
"I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world." — Lucie Brock-Broido, American poet, born 1956
"I think American is very democratic in allowing different hues of language and parts of speech to commingle. William Logan once wrote that I had something of a fetish for what he called Haute Couture Vulgarity." — Lucie Brock-Broido, American poet, born 1956
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." — Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet, born 1940
"The eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention." — Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet, born 1940
"Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written." — Neville Brody, English typographer, born 1957