Bill Bryson Quotes
For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.Bill Bryson
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
J. C. Chandor -
The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
W. Averell Harriman -
Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
Karin Slaughter -
Produce great men, the rest follows.
Walt Whitman -
I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
Joanne Rowling -
I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
Flavor Flav
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
Natalie du Toit -
The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
Venus Williams -
At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
Dan Colen -
The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
Felipe VI of Spain -
With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
Vince Gill -
The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
Harland Williams
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I find celebrity really scary.
Kate Ashfield -
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
Samuel Adams -
There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.
Haley Joel Osment -
As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
Kangana Ranaut -
People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
Wayne Rogers -
I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.
Lance Armstrong
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When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.
John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival -
It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.
Chris Christie -
You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation.
Zach Braff -
I'm getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.
Federico Fellini -
For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson