Bill Bryson Quotes
I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.Bill Bryson
Quotes to Explore
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
Dana Rohrabacher -
With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
M. J. Rose -
A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.
Ian Hacking -
I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
Karolina Kurkova -
I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
Forest Whitaker
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
J. Martin Kohe -
People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
Omar Epps -
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Napoleon Hill -
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
Laila Ali -
I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
Gary David Goldberg
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
Taylor Lautner -
If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.
Karen Allen -
I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
Patrick Wilson -
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
Wendell Phillips -
Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
Mae West -
Being in love is the best thing in my life.
Olivia Newton-John
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I remember my father, when I said I was going down to Little Rock to work for Governor Clinton's run for president, he thought maybe somebody needed to check the medication cabinet. He thought somebody was playing around with it. He had never heard of him, he said. I said, 'Well, I think he's going to be the next President of the United States.'
Rahm Emanuel -
I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.
Matthew Perry -
This was what you did in the '50s: You get married, get a job, put your husband through graduate school, and have two kids - a girl and a boy.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas -
The feeling that we call 'I' seems to define our point of view in every moment, and it also provides an anchor for popular beliefs about souls and freedom of will. And yet this feeling, however imperturbable it may appear at present, can be altered, interrupted, or entirely abolished.
Sam Harris -
But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn’t it? – and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.
Alexander McCall Smith -
I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.
Bill Bryson