Bill Bryson Quotes

'Virginia?' he said, as if I had asked him if there was anywhere local we could get a dose of syphilis.

Bill Bryson

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• I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.

  

  Barry Sheene
  • World
  • Man
  • Championship

• Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Live
  • High

• Get rid of the preferences and the special deductions and the loopholes... and invest in getting the tax rate to a competitive level so we stop seeing companies move off shore.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Stop
  • Special
  • Tax

• You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Time
  • Different
  • Country

• People often ask me why I don't take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, 'Where are these roles?' I really appreciate actresses who sign only films with meaty roles. However, there aren't too many of them. The industry is simply male-dominated.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• If I like something, I will pick it up from anywhere and wear it. I don't believe that only branded stuff looks good on you. If it doesn't look good in my eyes, I'll never wear it.

  

  Kajol
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • May
  • Friends
  • Road

• Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Life
  • Time
  • History

• We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • First
  • United States
  • United

• When he would give you direction, it was not sitting in a chair saying, 'Hey, babe! Do this and that and the other thing.' Mr. Sirk would ask, 'May I speak with you?' and sit down and say, 'I think this should be done this way. And how do you feel about it? Do you feel it that way?'

  

  Lana Turner
  • Done
  • May
  • Think

• If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Show
  • Create
  • Expectations

• As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Truth
  • Enemy

• I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Art
  • Want
  • Me

• It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • High
  • Space

• You can’t change what you don’t understand.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Country
  • Money
  • Romantic

• Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.

  

  Ann Richards

• Under an accumulation of staggerers, no man can be considered a free agent. No man knocks himself down; if his destiny knocks him down, his destiny must pick him up again.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Up
  • Free
  • Destiny

• When I sit down and play guitar, I melt into the instrument. I can play for hours by myself. Playing guitar has given me such a wonderful life, and I'm grateful for it.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Life

• No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Childhood
  • Books
  • Gods

• The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Life
  • Men
  • Control

• But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, would we be guilty if we prevented them from doing us evil?

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Evil
  • Guilty
  • Abuse

• 'Virginia?' he said, as if I had asked him if there was anywhere local we could get a dose of syphilis.

  

  Bill Bryson