Bill Bryson Quotes

Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.

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• Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • City
  • Diversity

• It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Would
  • Put
  • Spiteful

• In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Time
  • School
  • True

• We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Country
  • Power
  • Economic

• My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.

  

  Finn Jones
  • She
  • Dad
  • Child

• I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • Want
  • Myself
  • King

• I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

  

  Harry Caray
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Lost
  • Beginning

• Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Myself
  • Winning
  • Gold

• I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.

  

  Samantha Cameron
  • Read
  • Public
  • Twitter

• Beauty is the promise of happiness.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Happiness
  • Beauty
  • Promise

• I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Time
  • Place
  • Interested

• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Love
  • Success

• I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Country
  • Communist
  • Lawyers

• The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Free

• Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Music
  • Director
  • Video

• Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Decision
  • Feedback

• Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Human
  • Theatre
  • Stage

• As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Mind
  • Worry

• The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Experience
  • Interesting
  • Play

• I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.

  

  Joe Haldeman
  • Writing
  • Action
  • Hand

• Did I invent anything? I don't think so, not really. But if I've helped make history fun... then my work here is done.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Work
  • Done
  • History

• Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure and lovely, where nothing ever gets muddy (including the essence of mud.)

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • World
  • True
  • Reality

• Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • World
  • Work
  • Unappreciated