Bill Bryson Quotes

If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if you go hiking in England, or Europe, generally, towns and villages are near enough together at the end of the day you can always go to a nice little inn and have a hot bath and something to drink.

Bill Bryson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Well, I don't look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one.

Jerry Bruckheimer

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The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues.

John M. Ford

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I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.

Johnny Cash

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YouTube is a platform, a distribution vehicle.

Steve Chen

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I don't have a general archetypal platonic shadow, 'acting' concept about it.

Tom Sturridge

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For most of us, art is supposed to do something more than simply mirror the confusions of the world.

Michiko Kakutani

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'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good literature should: It entertains you.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.

Christina Romer

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Who cares about that stuff? This is America, not Jerusalem. I'm an American. Let Harry be a Jew.

Arnold Rothstein

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I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.

Anthony Bourdain

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Besides walking, I do stretches every day. I had back trouble starting when I turned 40, so I have to stretch out my muscles every day.

Anne Graham Lotz

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We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.

Asa Hutchinson

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