Bees Quotes - Page 16

• I love the Bee Gees, but only the pre-disco stuff. From '64 to '69, I've got all their albums.

  Noel Gallagher

  Albums, Stuff, Disco

  "The Gallagher interview in full". Interview with David Walliams, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2005.

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• It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Work, Mistake, People

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• When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Costumes, Ridiculous, Cannes

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• It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.

  Hosea Ballou

  Tails, Mouths, Honey

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• Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake, and Baudelaire is to find her sadomasochism obvious and flagrant. Birds, bees, and amputated hands are the dizzy stuff of this poetry. Dickinson is like the homosexual cultist draping himself in black leather and chains to bring the idea of masculinity into aggressive visibility.

  Camille Paglia

  Writing, Ideas, Hands

  "Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson". Book by Camille Paglia, 1990.

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• [On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Sometimes, Seems, Ifs

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• A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside.

  Nicholson Baker

  Beer, Roots, Rose

  Nicholson Baker (2010). “Mezzanine”, p.81, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Owl, Bells

  William Shakespeare, “Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where The Bee Sucks, There Suck I]”

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• The thread has snapped. No sound even to mark the breaking let alone the fall. That long anticipated disintegration, when the darkest angel of all, the horror beyond all horrors, sits at last upon my chest, permanently enfolding me in its great covering wings, black as ink, veined in Bees' purple. A creature without a voice. A voice without a name. As immortal as my life. Come here at long last to summon the wind.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Fall, Angel, Wind

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• A dead Bee maketh no Hony.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.369

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• In Egypt, I loved the perfume of the lotus. A flower would bloom in the pool at dawn, filling the entire garden with a blue musk so powerful it seemed that even the fish and ducks would swoon. By night, the flower might wither but the perfume lasted. Fainter and fainter, but never quite gone. Even many days later, the lotus remained in the garden. Months would pass and a bee would alight near the spot where the lotus had blossomed, and its essence was released again, momentary but undeniable.

  Anita Diament

  Powerful, Flower, Night

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• I have the same problem as Marilyn. We attract people the way honey does bees, but they're generally the wrong kind of people. People who want something from us - if only our energy. We need a period of being alone to become ourselves.

  Montgomery Clift

  Want Something, People, Energy

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• Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees.

  Kami Garcia

  Butterfly, Sight, Like Love

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• Littlefinger looked like a boy who had just taken a furtive bite from a honeycomb. He was TRYING to watch for bees, but the honey was so sweet.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sweet, Taken, Boys

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.965, Bantam

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• You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.

  Fannie Flagg

  Tomatoes, Charmers

  "Fried Green Tomatoes". www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.

  Richard Brautigan

  Used, Stomach

  Richard Brautigan (1964). “Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster: Three Books in the Manner of Their Original Editions”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.

  August Strindberg

  Mad, Lions, Common

  Johan August Strindberg, Michael Robinson (2008). “Miss Julie and Other Plays”, p.57, Oxford University Press

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• 5.Buggre Alle this for a Larke I amme sick to mye Hart of typefetinge. Master Biltonn if no Gentelmann, and Master Scagges now more that a tighte fisted Southwarke Knobbefticke. I telle you, onne a daye laike thif Ennywone withe half and oz of Sense shoulde bee oute in the Suneshain, ane nott Stucke here alle the lielong dale inn thif mowldey olde By-Our-Lady Workefhoppe *AE@;I*

  Terry Pratchett

  Sick, Half, Inns

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• The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love; one may chop wood, make bricks, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than one can handle bees without care.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Men, Thinking

  Leo Tolstoy (2015). “The Resurrection: Tolstoy's Collections”, p.274, 谷月社

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• In the world of the superheroes, everything had value, potential, mystery. Any person, thing, or object could be drafted into service in the struggle against darkness and evil - remade as a weapon or a warrior or a superhero. Even a little bee named Michael - after God's own avenging angel - could pitch in to win the battle against wickedness.

  Grant Morrison

  Struggle, Angel, Warrior

  Grant Morrison (2011). “Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero”, p.48, Random House

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• Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Nature, Animal, Path

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• My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many is not enough...I will see what others have invented. Even the eyes of all humanity are not enough. I regret that the brutes cannot write books. Very gladly would I learn what face things present to a mouse or a bee. More gladly still would I perceive the olfactory world charged with all the information and emotion it carries for a dog.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dog, Nature, Regret

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• How I like claret!...It fills one's mouth with a gushing freshness, then goes down to cool and feverless; then, you do not feel it quarrelling with one's liver. No; 'tis rather a peace-maker, and lies as quiet as it did in the grape. Then it is as fragrant as the Queen Bee, and the more ethereal part mounts into the brain, not assaulting the cerebral apartments, like a bully looking for his trull, and hurrying from door to door, bouncing against the wainscott, but rather walks like Aladdin about his enchanted palace, so gently that you do not feel his step.

  John Keats

  Queens, Lying, Wine

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• It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you. Grief outside means you want something from someone, and chances are good you won't get it.

  Hilary Thayer Hamann

  Grief, Mean, Want Something

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• Here may I live what life I please, Married and buried out of sight, - Married to pleasure and buried to pain, - Hidden away amongst scenes like these, Under the fans of the chestnut trees; Living my child-life over again, With the further hope of a fallen delight, Blithe as the birds and wise as the bees.

  Violet Fane

  Life, Wise, Hope

  Violet Fane (1880). “Collected Verses”

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