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Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing. -- Matthew Shipp
It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads. -- Mira Sorvino
Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago. -- Billy Eckstine
Bud Light....the perfect beer for marketers about to lose their job. -- Jeff Barrett
Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. -- John Quincy Adams
Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud. -- Boyle Roche
Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating. -- Gilbert Highet
I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call me into his office once in a while when he knew things weren't going so well. And it's funny. Every time I left there I always felt like something good was about to happen. -- Robin Yount
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds. -- Andrew Marvell
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. -- William Shakespeare
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower. -- William Cowper
I'm going to drink a Coor's Light, cause Bud Light don't pay me nothin'. -- Brock Lesnar
There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig -- Denzel Washington
This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is. -- Fay Vincent
Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was. -- Norman Lear
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet -- William Shakespeare
The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do. -- Hal Holbrook
You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have read some great books recently: "Heaven is For Real," "Bud Not Buddy," and my favorite, "Tiger Eyes." -- Coco Jones
On and on eternally Shall your altered fluid run, Bud and bloom and go to seed; But your singing days are done -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two! -- Eddie Money
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -- Anais Nin
All day long you see those commercials: 'Here's Your Brain, Just Say No'...and the next commercial is: 'This Bud's For You.' -- Bill Hicks
I can't believe a war against drugs when they have anti-drug commercials on TV all day long followed by This Bud is for you. -- Bill Hicks
Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults. -- William Shakespeare
You can't get away, I can't fill my car up at a gas station without Coors Light, Bud Light, Corona, whatever, it's just the way it is. -- Kirk Windstein
Answer July- Where is the Bee- Where is the Blush- Where is the Hay? Ah, said July- Where is the Seed- Where is the Bud- Where is the May- Answer Thee-Me- -- Emily Dickinson
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. -- Gaston Bachelard
All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns. -- Oscar Wilde
It's not a question of God 'sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud. -- C. S. Lewis
In high school I was a jazz nerd, listened to a lot of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk and stuff like that. Maybe in Harry Pussy I was listening to more horn players. -- Bill Orcutt
Bud, my self-defense and combat skills teacher, was still trying to get me to learn knife fighting. "Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to nearly all paranormals!" "Tasey!" I countered. "Hot pink and sparkly! -- Kiersten White
Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall in love with the act. You're really crazy now.' -- Charles Mingus
Well, Bud," he said, looking at me, "I'll be damned if you don't go to a lot of trouble to have your fun. Kidnapping, then fighting. What do you do on your holidays? Burn houses? -- William Faulkner
A bud is a flower-to-be. A flower in waiting. Waiting for just the right warmth and care to open up. It's a little fist of love waiting to unfold and be seen by the world. And that's you. -- Christopher Paul Curtis
We had an episode where Bud asks his dad, I was named after the beer, right, Dad? And Ed ONeill, who played my dad, says, Uh. . . . Right, son! My theory is that Bud Bundy was named after marijuana. -- David Faustino
If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them? -Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book, to baseball commissioner Bud Selig about lagging baseball attendance Ninety percent of the game is half mental. -- Yogi Berra
A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot, Seeking with hand and heart The teacher whom she learned to love Before she knew t'was Art. -- Louisa May Alcott
I went up to his [Hank Jones'] house and there were four guys there: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Max Roach. Not a bad place to be. Scared shitless, but a nice place to be on my second day in New York. -- Ray Brown
People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or Miles Davis on every corner...I almost expected a Shorty Rogers to deliver the milk, a Bud Shank to be the mailman. -- Gabor Szabo
...that was Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things to Have a Funner LIfe and Make a Better Liar Out of Yourself Number 83...If a Adult Tells You Not to Worry, and You Weren't Worried Before, You Better Hurry Up and Start 'Cause You're Already Running Late. -- Christopher Paul Curtis
I guess the story that best defines us [with Bud Yorkin] and our relationship goes back to the [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis show. The four stage managers on that show became major TV creators and directors - John Rich, Jack Smight, Arthur Penn and Bud Yorkin. -- Norman Lear
You probably heard about the big prisoner swap with Cuba. A man who has been incarcerated in Havana for five years is back home in the United States. And we sent them some prisoners. The deal still has to be approved by President Obama and Bud Selig. -- David Letterman
Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heartstrings, she is born again with her newborn child. -- Kate Douglas Wiggin
V shook his head. "Remember what you saw in that clearing, cop? How'd you like that anywhere near a female you loved?" Butch put down the Bud without drinking from it. His eyes traveled over Rhage's body. "We're going to need a shitload of steel," the human muttered. -- J.R. Ward
All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The bud of victory is always in the truth. -- Benjamin Harrison
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -- Anais Nin
A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on earth and expands through eternity. Sweetness of temper is the odor of fresh blooms, and the amaranth flowers of pure affection open but to bloom forever. -- Dorothea Dix
I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two! I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two! -- Eddie Money
The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression. -- Marianne Williamson
I got my service dog when I was medically retired out of the military, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I wish every medically retired serviceman could have a service dog. He's amazing. He's my best bud. I go everywhere and anywhere with him. -- Marcus Luttrell
Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud. -- William Shakespeare
As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown. -- William Shakespeare
And he nipped them in the bud, right at the end -- Bob Holness
A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice. -- Isaac Watts
A leaf cannot return to the bud- bluestar to fireheart and greystripe -- Erin Hunter
The peach-bud glows, the wild bee hums, and wind-flowers wave in graceful gladness. -- Lucy Larcom
The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don't flower -- Galway Kinnell
They shot me. (Talon) No, bud. They turned you into Swiss cheese. (Nick) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Nice knees, bud, but the hairy legs could use a Bush Hog. (Kyrian) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
As the bud a leaf, so at last the thought becomes a word. -- Richard B. Garnett
One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria. -- Christopher Fry
The body,-that is dust; the soul,-it is a bud of eternity. -- Nathaniel Culverwell
All I need is some cool bud and some tasty hanging change-ups, and I'm fine! -- Khalil Greene
When a bud breaks it becomes a flower, when a heart breaks it becomes divine. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Each opening bud, and care-perfected seed, Is as a page, where we may read of God. -- Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time. -- Neil Gaiman
Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie. -- James Hogg
So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre -- Edmund Spenser
Mornings are mysteries; the first world's youth, Man's resurrection, and the future's bud Shroud in their births. -- Henry Vaughan
A rhododendron bud lavender-tipped. Soon a glory of blooms to clash with the cardinals and gladden the hummingbirds! -- Dave Beard
I seek a form that my style cannot discover,a bud of thought that wants to be a rose. -- Ruben Dario
Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven. -- James Hervey
Something was stirring in him, though; a bud of comprehension that could very well bloom into forgiveness if left unchecked. -- Julie Anne Long
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. -- Samuel Butler
Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all. -- William Shakespeare
... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud. -- Jose Saramago
And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows... -- Rudyard Kipling
And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -- Anais Nin
A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying -- Charles Lamb
Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose. -- Rudolf Steiner
Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone. -- Nhat Hanh
I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits...waits. -- Jerry Spinelli
All green and fair the summer lies, Just budded from the bud of spring, With tender blue of wistful skies, And winds that softly sing. -- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst in flower. -- Osbert Sitwell
Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You don't take music seriously if you wear your left ear bud in your right ear and your right ear bud in your left ear. -- Lou Brutus
Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb. -- Jan Karon
Look, bud. I'm trained. Ticked off. And I have a loaded weapon. You should take particular note of the loaded weapon part when annoying me. (Terri) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise? -- Victor Hugo
This world is half the devil's and my own, Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl and curling round the bud that forks her eye. -- Dylan Thomas
In kindly showers and sunshine bud The branches of the dull gray wood; Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks The blue eye of the violet looks. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves the feet of angels bright; unseen they pour blessing, and joy without ceasing, on each bud and blossom, and each sleeping bosom. -- William Blake
Rarely is any good done without difficulty; the devil is too subtle and the world too corrupt not to attempt to nip such a good work in the bud -- Vincent de Paul
But we have only begun to love the earth. We have only begun to imagine the fullness of life. How could we tire of hope?-so much is in bud. -- Denise Levertov
I seem to have dodged all my days with one or two persons, and lived upon expectation,--as if the bud would surely blossom; and soI am content to live. -- Henry David Thoreau
A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
[Golfers] are a special kind of moral relist who nips the normal romantic and idealstic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable. -- Alistair Cooke
A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should I want to go back To you, Ireland, my Ireland? -- Louis MacNeice
Before man's fall the rose was born,St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;But for man's fault then was the thornWithout the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn. -- Robert Herrick
Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence. -- Elizabeth Bowen
The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him. -- William Law
Sure my love is all crostLike a bud in the frostAnd there's no use at all in my going to bed,For 't is dhrames and not slape that comes into my head! -- Samuel Lover
The seed is the fetus, in other words, a true plant with its parts (that is, its leaves, of which there are usually two, its stalk or stem, and its bud) completely fashioned. -- Marcello Malpighi
Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud. -- George Eliot
Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. -- John Burroughs
The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. -- Anais Nin
A flower is not better when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is the same thing â?? a flower in the process of expressing its potential. -- Paulo Coelho
By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom. -- Omar Khayyam
If we cut open the bud of a beautiful rose in order to see how it is 'packed' and what it is going to look like, what sort of a bloom will we get? -- Ian Gardner
No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd. -- Edmund Spenser
Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves. -- Diane Ackerman

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