Best 282 quotes in «bees quotes» category

I can do what you do, easy, BELIEVE ME Frontin' niggas give me hee-bee-gee-bees

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... [J]ust a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.

I don't trust the Bee Gee's because there's no way they could always be happy.

I carry about eight lip balms: Burts Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.

If they make it illegal to wear the veil at work, bee keepers are going to be furious.

If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into their little specializations. I'd go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.

If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.

I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee yard etiquette'. She reminded me that the world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don't be an idiot; wear long sleeves and pants. Don't swat. Don't even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates while whistling melts a bee's temper. Act like you know what you're doing, even if you don't. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.

If you wanna find the honey / You can't be scared of the bees.

I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom.

I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.

If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.

I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late 70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording.

I'm petrified of bees because I have an anaphylactic reaction to bees.

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

Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.

I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee

In November I'll be releasing my new solo record, entitled 'Box Of Bees'. There's no music, it's just a box full of live bees. The deluxe edition comes with more bees.

I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

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.

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

I saw a bee have a heart attack.

It is not caving in to the bees to stop poking a stick into their hive.

It's disappointing to have lost - that's the bee's knees of it.

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

It takes a bee to get the honey out

I've found my missin' piece So grease my knees and fleece my bees I've found my missin' piece!

It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.

I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the Bee Gees.

I was the kind of person that was very social and liked to be with an entourage and have lots of parties and have people around me. And now I find I am much more satisfied seeing people one-on-one. I avoid crowds, and I get really plagued by people as if they are bees or something. I am talking about my friends. I can only handle them one at a time.

I would have been a lot better off if I’d studied more when I was growing up, y’know. But you know where it all went wrong was the day they started the spelling bee. Because up until that day I was an idiot, but nobody else knew.

Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.

Just as the seasons change and the honey bees pollinate the planet and make honey, we are also doing exactly what we are supposed to be doing. We also are apart of nature, certainly not separate from nature.

Led Zeppelin didn't write tunes that everybody liked, they left that to the Bee Gees.

I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.

just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

Like bees around honey. Why are bees so attracted to honey, since they make it? It can only be vanity.

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.

Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.

Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin. in any county of England, and I'll bee once again a vagabond to visit them.

Look, I guess it's natural, you're teenagers, its springtime,everyone's thoughts are turning to birds and bees and caterpillars and moths..... - Iggy

Like people love their tote, they love their initial bangle, they love their C. Wonder belts, they love their cardigans and their striped top, and I'm really happy to be bringing that back and helping people get their 'Bee Happy' smoking slippers again.

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.