Bill Bryson Quotes

I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved.

Bill Bryson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MeStandShyAudienceUpNatural

My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child's attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off.

Jez Butterworth

FatherAttitudePoliticsChildMe

I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.

Joan Crawford

MoneyBelieveI BelieveEverything

All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

Jesse Eisenberg

GuiltyWayPleasuresJustWired

I'm very interested in theories in how we exist: how people exist and how souls exist separate from their bodies or their brains.

Angourie Rice

PeopleBrainsExistInterestedSouls

I don't fund county roads.

Jeff Fortenberry

RoadsFundCounty

You will not solve global climate change by hitting the delete button.

Tom Brokaw

ChangeYouClimate ChangeWillSolve

It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest.

Roger Mahony

ChildrenDesertYearImmigrants

When I first came to New York, I was surprised by all these out teenagers who were openly on the street being who they were. That intrigued me because I was 27 and still struggling with being myself.

Dee Rees

MyselfNew YorkMeBeing MyselfNew

We're living in a different world now in terms of employee needs, and companies have to offer alternative methods for getting the work done. Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

Anne M. Mulcahy

WorkCreativeWorldYouDoneLiving

I'm from a big family; I have four younger siblings. My parents are still happily married together. I grew up moving around a lot, and my family was certainly not affluent.

Alice Greczyn

FamilyTogetherParentsMovingBig

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Pedro Almodovar

LifeStrengthLonelinessReality

Growth is what solves most of the big economic and social problems: poverty, government deficits, quality of life, rising healthcare and retirement costs.

Sergio Ermotti

LifeGrowthQualityGovernmentBig

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