Bill Bryson Quotes

Blackpool's illuminations are nothing if not splendid, and they are not splendid.

Bill Bryson

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• I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Reading
  • Books
  • Internet

• If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.

  

  Kajol
  • Character
  • Society
  • Cinema

• I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Life
  • Think
  • You

• If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Food

• Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Women
  • Freedom
  • Religion

• No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Planned

• Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Travel

• When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Great
  • You
  • Product

• I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Family
  • School
  • Culture

• If you leave me waiting 'round for hours and then call on me to do something, I need to be able to do it straight away. That's my job, like your job is to do what you do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Job
  • Me
  • Waiting

• I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.

  

  Gary Cole
  • First
  • Nervous
  • Coming

• As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems to be simplified. The voice of a woman poet would, I was sure, have precluded such distortion. It did not exist.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Voice

• My new iPhone, I'm obsessed. My iPod. I love all the Mac crap. AppleTV, I'm crazy about that. I'd rather buy a new gadget than, like, a purse.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Crazy
  • Like
  • Purse

• I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I was staying in one place and going somewhere else instead. My older sister was openly rebellious and would tell my parents where to go, but I never did that.

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Sister

• Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • People
  • World
  • True

• The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Joy

• We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Clouds

• You touch her skin And then you think That she is beautiful But she don't mean a thing to me

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • She
  • Beautiful

• But to everything in this world there comes an end; there even comes an end to the torments suffered in those intermediate states of transition when the last secret tear of one's soul is bitterly swallowed, and the crisis passes, resolving itself into some new sort of phase, which even as it comes into existence is fated in turn to pass away, to disappear in the eternal changing of the times and seasons.

  

  Nikolai Bukharin
  • World
  • End
  • Crisis

• Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Why
  • She
  • High

• A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Die

• But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it.

  

  Don McLean
  • Good
  • Song

• Blackpool's illuminations are nothing if not splendid, and they are not splendid.

  

  Bill Bryson