Bill Bryson Quotes

I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.

Bill Bryson

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• I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Home
  • Start
  • Talking

• There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Live
  • Question
  • Moral

• I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Important
  • Kids

• I love to smell like roses, literally all day!

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Like
  • Smell
  • Roses

• My parents were both entrepreneurs.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Parents
  • Both
  • Were

• It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Work
  • Same
  • Expression

• I don't believe in strong-arming people.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Believe
  • Strong

• The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Beginning
  • Things
  • Reveal

• This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Quality
  • Easy

• As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Me
  • Proud

• With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Book

• Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Country
  • Identity
  • Diversity

• I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Different
  • Style
  • Sound

• The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Teacher

• But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Control
  • Myself
  • Win

• There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Fun
  • Period
  • Challenges

• I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
  • Career
  • Old

• I think that our comfort is in our history.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • History
  • Think
  • Comfort

• I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • New York
  • Lipstick

• I always felt that I was born in the wrong era. I wanted to be friends with John Garfield, for instance.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Friends

• It's not impossible but it's difficult, for a non-white person to be British.

  

  Enoch Powell

• Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Philosophy
  • Personal
  • Normal

• It was never a conscious decision - I was introducing myself as Duffy and my friends were calling me Duffy, so I just knocked off the first half of my name. For me it's no big deal, but a lot of people want to unearth why I've called myself this. It's just what I'm known as, you know.

  

  Duffy
  • People
  • Why
  • Friends

• I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Why