Bill Bryson Quotes

I assume he was descended from apes like all the rest of us, but clearly in his case it had been a fairly gentle slope.

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• Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Me
  • Cooking
  • Patience

• If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Hard Work

• The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Men
  • Women
  • Psychology

• Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Men
  • Quotation

• The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Up
  • Fight

• By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Opportunity
  • Young
  • New

• I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Me
  • Waiting

• There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • World
  • Position
  • Spanish

• I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

  

  B. B. King
  • Mind
  • Song
  • Night

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Think
  • Know
  • Attention

• Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Christian
  • Values
  • Roots

• I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Life
  • War
  • Politics

• Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Great
  • Positive
  • Negative

• I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Doing
  • Find
  • Relationships

• As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Guy
  • Designer
  • Niche

• I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.

  

  Bai Ling
  • People
  • Good
  • Me

• Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Heart
  • Ideas
  • Film

• Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • May
  • Purpose

• The Montreal Olympics were in July 1976, the bicentennial, at the height of patriotism.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Patriotism
  • Height
  • July

• It is necessary to show that there is nothing so little known as the above rules, nothing more difficult to practice, or nothing more useful and universal.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Practice

• Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from the heart I think...that's what it's all about.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Book

• Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say "more or less" because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Goal
  • Human Beings
  • Religions

• I assume he was descended from apes like all the rest of us, but clearly in his case it had been a fairly gentle slope.

  

  Bill Bryson
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