Bill Bryson Quotes

Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.

Bill Bryson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 8, 1951

Topics

RoadsShoppingDevelopmentHumanBig

My goal for 'Black Rock' was pretty simple: I wanted to make the feel-good record of the summer.

Joe Bonamassa

SimpleBlackGoalSummerRockMake

My mom allowed me to take an old burlap bag and fill it with moss, corn stalks and rocks, then hang it from a tree and spend an hour a day punching my heavy bag.

Joe Frazier

TreeDayMeMomBagRocks

My first crush was my brother's best friend.

Jennifer Armentrout

FriendBestBrotherBest Friend

Once you label me you negate me.

Soren Kierkegaard

WisdomMeYouLabelOnce

You don't try to fix things that aren't broken.

Sonny Perdue

BrokenYouTryFixThings

I'm not acting, but I am acting.

Tracey Gold

I AmActingAm

I don't think I have ever thought of myself as a movie star. I think when I was about seven, I thought it must be lovely to have an Oscar. But the more involved you are in this business, the more that pretence disappears, and you really get to see what you love about it, and what I love is working.

Ruth Negga

LoveBusinessMyselfLove IsThink

The aim of SK's fundamental change is to increase happiness and share it with society.

Chey Tae-won

ChangeHappinessSocietyAimShare

I don't read anything about my movies before or after I do films, or any part of show business. I think that keeps me in a kind of place where I can do the work that I need to do.

Christopher Guest

WorkBusinessMeThinkI CanPlace

If we truly value humanity, life, and all that it represents in its highest form, then we need to do all that we can to promote quality of life over the quantity of life.

Christy Turlington

LifeQualityValueHumanityNeed

It's never enjoyable watching yourself. Because you're never as good looking as you hope you are. You're not expecting to be Penelope Cruz... but I'm a female of the species. I have my hang-ups and all of that.

Anne-Marie Duff

GoodHopeYourselfLookingYou

I grew up with comic books, and I'm from the Caribbean, so comic books were really a great interrogator of American culture for me.

Winston Duke

GreatCultureMeAmericanUpBooks

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