Bill Bryson Quotes
I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.Bill Bryson
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Zadie Smith -
If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
Bebe Rexha -
Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
Vincent Bugliosi -
I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Dalai Lama -
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Sam Levenson -
I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
Florynce Kennedy -
I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
Vera Wang
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
Patrick Kane -
I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
Randeep Hooda -
When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
Oscar Niemeyer -
Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
Zoe Saldana -
Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
Gary Bauer -
I never felt like I had a mother.
Quincy Jones
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My parents were lured to America by the democracy here promised. In our family, freedom was a word to conjure by. Hoping for larger privileges for the growing family of children, they brought them to the New World, the world of many intellectual as well as material advantages.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones -
Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.
Louis Kronenberger -
Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write nothing you would not like God to read. Go no place where you would not like God to find you. Read no book of which you would not like God to say, "Show it to Me." Never spend your time in such a way that you would not like to have God say, "What are you doing?
J. C. Ryle -
Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.
J. R. Moehringer -
I hate the word 'sneering', I can't help the way my face looks.
Jeremy Paxman -
I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.
Bill Bryson