Bill Bryson Quotes

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

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• I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Always
  • Violence
  • Loved

• My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the stories I've so far written have needed it. 'Empire State,' 'Seven Wonders' and 'The Age Atomic' are all very place-centric, where the setting itself is almost a character. But there is a universality to story that isn't just limited to science fiction.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Writing
  • Character
  • American

• A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Age
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Husband

• I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.

  

  Rand Paul
  • School
  • Age
  • Small

• Politics is the one field you don't age out of.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Age
  • You
  • Politics

• Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Money
  • Age
  • Fashion

• Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Age
  • Success

• My natural hair is jet black. I used to have it down to my bum. And I went through a phase of being obsessed with fake tan. So from the age of 14 to 16, I looked like an Apache Indian!

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Age
  • Black
  • Hair

• I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know how to do this; you don't have to come with me anymore.'

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Me
  • Know
  • Dad

• I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • School
  • Age
  • Parents

• Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Life
  • Work
  • Age

• Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Children
  • Age
  • Party

• I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Age
  • Career
  • Growing

• I would definitely like to start working with more people over age 7.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • People
  • Age
  • Start

• Age doesn't mean anything. Age doesn't mean I can't work as hard. Age doesn't mean I can't do as well as everyone else. It's just a factor. It's just there.

  

  Zendaya
  • Work
  • Age
  • Just

• I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from an early age, my family was teaching old musical songs.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Real
  • Age
  • Passion

• People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Good
  • True

• Maxim is chilling out with age, like a good wine. He's a cross between me and Keith - when he's on stage he's got that theatrical edge, his commanding stature, people know he's in control of the mike.

  

  Leeroy Thornhill The Prodigy
  • Age
  • Wine
  • Maxim

• But now, today, we don't know if Over the River is truly the next project to be realized, because something very nice happened to our life in November in New York.

  

  Christo
  • Life
  • Today
  • Nice

• You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Think
  • Afford

• There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Age
  • Farmer