Bill Bryson Quotes

As Edward P. Tryon of Columbia University once put it: 'In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our universe is simply one of those things that happen from time to time.' To which adds Guth: 'Although the creation of a universe might be very unlikely, Tryon emphasized that no one had counted the failed attempts.'

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• I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Change
  • Alone

• As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Information
  • Conversation
  • Valuable

• I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Daughter

• The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • World
  • May
  • Political

• I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Always
  • Majority

• I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Lost
  • Religion
  • Say

• I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Work
  • Important
  • Women

• Life is like an analogy.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Life
  • Like
  • Analogy

• If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Women
  • Government
  • Politics

• The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Think
  • Romantic
  • Last

• The interweb's got a weird vibe.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Weird
  • Got
  • Vibe

• The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Name
  • Will
  • Redskins

• With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Book
  • History
  • Present

• I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Dream
  • Movies
  • Made

• I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Know
  • Act
  • I Can

• Unfortunately, opera engagements tend to be made five years in advance, and I don't really agree with that.

  

  Danielle de Niese

• I feel like there are a lot of bands or musicians that probably think improv is corny, because I think that's a sentiment out there.

  

  Matt Besser

• If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • World
  • Live
  • Together

• Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Control
  • Back
  • Greatest

• As Edward P. Tryon of Columbia University once put it: 'In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our universe is simply one of those things that happen from time to time.' To which adds Guth: 'Although the creation of a universe might be very unlikely, Tryon emphasized that no one had counted the failed attempts.'

  

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