Bill Bryson Quotes

All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.

Bill Bryson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HistoryAmericaYouHeritageLiving

TV is not accurate.

Joe Torre

AccurateTV

The visuals are equally as important as the music. It's all a complete experience.

Andra Day

MusicExperienceImportantComplete

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.

Robert Smithson

LanguageShouldProcedureEver

I think it's natural for people to see a band and imagine themselves as part of that. That's what I grew up fantasizing about, looking at posters of bands on my wall. There is an allure to a band.

Matthew Ramsey

PeopleLookingThinkWallBandSee

All those ethereal string sounds on 'Oxygene IV' come from the VCS3. It was the first European synthesizer, made in England by a guy called Peter Zinoviev. I got one of the first ones.

Jean-Michel Jarre

FirstGuyGotComeMadeSounds

The giving of the Quran is in Islam what the incarnation of Christ is to Christianity. If this is so, then Quran-burning is parallel to Christ-crucifying.

John Piper

GivingIslamChristianityChrist

The art of entrepreneurship and the science of Customer Development is not just getting out of the building and listening to prospective customers. It's understanding who to listen to and why.

Steve Blank

ScienceArtListeningBuildingWhy

I'm happy that I have a beautiful, wonderful, amazing child who's made me a better person.

Solange Knowles

BeautifulHappyChildAmazingMe

The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.

Tommy Lee Jones

WarPeopleMeOldAttackSense

I think of my drawing style like handwriting: it's a mix of whatever handwriting you're born with, plus bits and pieces you've pilfered from other people around you.

Roz Chast

StylePeopleThinkDrawingYouBorn

I love a good madeira cake. Nice and simple. The most important thing is that a cake is moist. Most people overcook cakes, which dries them out.

Mary Berry

LoveGoodSimpleCakePeopleNice

Progress is a choice.

Martin O'Malley

ProgressChoice

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