(1931 quotes found)
“Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind”
Bulgarian Proverb
“I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.”
Johnny Carson
“Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them”
Thomas Fuller
“This valuable first-hand account of the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott, written by an important, behind-the-scenes organizer, evokes the emotional intensity of the civil rights struggle. It ought to be required reading for all Americans who value their freedom and the contribution of Black women to our history.”
Coretta Scott King
“I'm about four skyscrapers behind.”
Philip Johnson
“In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.”
Albert Camus
“To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form”
Alfred Jarry
“A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea.”
Phyllis Batelle
““There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day.It is always the same shape, only very numerous.And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern.””
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
Anatole France
