Bill Bryson Quotes

In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.

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• Celine Dion is my major inspiration.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Inspiration
  • Major
  • Celine Dion

• Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Today
  • Society
  • Better

• I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just one of those in a lifetime, you should get down on your knees and say 'Thank you!'

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Know
  • Worry
  • Thank You

• I like to talk on the cell when I do interviews. That way, I double my chances of getting brain cancer: from the cell phone, and from the questions.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Brain
  • Cancer
  • Questions

• I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Always
  • Model
  • Singer

• Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • People

• When I began to write as a very young person in a rigidly racist and inhibited colonial society, I felt, as many others did, that I existed marginally on the edge of the world of ideas, of imagination and beauty. These, taking shape in poetry and fiction, drama, painting and sculpture, were exclusive to that distant realm known as 'overseas'.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • World
  • Society
  • Imagination

• If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Men
  • Effort

• I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Morning
  • Famous

• He was listening, too, for it is through the eyes and ears that one learns. A spiderweb of facts can tie up the lion of action; not to know is bad; not to strive to know is worse.

  

  Andre Norton
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Action

• I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

  

  Albert Camus
  • May

• I am not surprised that men are not thankful to me; but I wonder that they are not grateful to God for the good which he has made me the instrument of conveying to my fellow-creatures.

  

  Edward Jenner
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.

  

  Alec Berg
  • Writing

• The best talent in the venture industry doesn't work in large companies and won't work in large companies.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Work

• I knew that Trump was ghastly. I knew I'd vote for Hillary if I had a vote.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Trump

• We do the impossible when we tell ourselves we can.

  

  Chip Gaines

• Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Remember
  • Together

• Duke is a character who believes that heroism and the Robin mantle can exist entirely separate from Batman himself.

  

  Scott Snyder
  • Character
  • Believes
  • Heroism

• My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Garden

• I didn't choose Goldberg because I wanted to be the flagship for the Jewish movement, not by any stretch of the imagination. I chose Goldberg because no one else can own it.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Imagination

• None knows the weight of another's burden.

  

  George Herbert

• In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.

  

  Bill Bryson