Bill Bryson Quotes
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
Quotes to Explore
-
I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
-
I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
-
I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.
-
I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
-
I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
-
Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
-
A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
-
You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
-
I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
-
I take a lot of pictures.
-
My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
-
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
-
Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
-
Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
-
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
-
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
-
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
-
According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.
-
Songwriting was very tough for me... I would go in and sit and hope for inspiration to come, and it was rarely forthcoming.
-
Our thoughts and our feelings, of course, are not wholly objective, they're inherently subjective. And that's the danger, and I think as long as we're aware of it and can push back against it, I don't think that these two views are necessarily incompatible.
-
We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.
-
You can see that a city is prosperous by the wealth of goods for sale in the market. Land too we call prosperous if it bears rich fruit. And so also the soul may be counted prosperous if it is full of good works of every kind.
-
I'm such a hater, and will hate on anything.
-
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
