Bill Bryson Quotes

I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.

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• I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Television
  • Own
  • Watch

• You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Home
  • Think
  • You

• I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • God
  • Real
  • Movie

• The higher your station, the less your liberty.

  

  Sallust
  • Liberty
  • Higher
  • Less

• The first president I met was L. B. J.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • President
  • First
  • Met

• Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Facebook
  • Web
  • Applications

• I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Different
  • Long
  • Song

• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Up
  • Power
  • Growing

• I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • City
  • Fashion
  • Year

• Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • God
  • Love
  • Help

• The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Truth
  • American
  • Truth Is

• Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • May
  • Society
  • Simple

• I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Goal
  • Win
  • Gold

• To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Great
  • Hands

• It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Men
  • Said
  • Creepy

• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Energy
  • Gift
  • Creator

• The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

  

  Dave Thomas
  • Up
  • Good
  • Men

• I like listening to people talk about things that they love. They get to express things they don't normally get to express.

  

  Chris Hardwick
  • People
  • Listening

• I'm someone very comfortable airing out the stories of my own life. Some people call it narcissism, but for me, the intention is that it will positively affect other people.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • People
  • Life

• We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

  

  Paul Tillich
  • Experience
  • Forgiveness

• Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience and reverence, it is not without sincere sorrow that I have beheld many of the sons of these men driven from their fathers' mansions, or holding them as little better than tenants or stewards, while the swarms of Placemen, Pensioners, Contractors, and Nabobs... have usurped a large part of the soil.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Men
  • Son
  • Sorrow

• I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.

  

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