Bill Bryson Quotes

I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and I would get distracted. Oh, and I have absolutely no sense of direction at all.

Bill Bryson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

StoryDirectionRememberWayThrough

In a park, you are not working with studio materials or a flat piece of paper. You have grass and the people and the city and the daylight.

Jessica Stockholder

PeopleCityYouGrassParkWorking

I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point.

Robert Mapplethorpe

ArtistWantNormalJustAbout

Stories need stupid decisions that, at the time, seem absolutely rational and necessary. Without stupid decisions, the world isn't thrown out of balance, and so there's no need for a 'rest of the story' to balance it back.

Stephen Graham Jones

TimeBalanceStupidWorldRestBack

The school system has become a part of this huge government machine, governed by people who aren't close to the situation. That's why I'm a Republican. I believe in small government.

Stacey Dash

GovernmentSchoolPeopleSmallWhy

Writing that's not working for a living.

Robert Asprin

WritingLivingWorking

When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth.

Robyn Davidson

GoodMotherThinkThoughtLongNow

It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before.

Douglas Trumbull

SpaceDoingEvolutionMoreAbstract

From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canada's war effort as effective as possible.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

WarEffortPeopleHelpCanadaWay

Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.

Phyllis Schlafly

MenTreatStopSayWantThey Say

I've always been comfortable with my gayness, but I was intimidated by the social anxiety.

Syd

AnxietyComfortableAlwaysSocial

Blushes are fun. I like to do circles - like a Caravaggio painting almost, or Victorian looking.

Perfume Genius

FunPaintingLookingCirclesAlmost

Every person is different and unique. I am a female. I'm Indian. I'm 4'11". People should never be defined by what they look like and sort of these demographical parts about them, but the most important thing is the work you do, so females are just as capable as doing that as males, and the same thing with any other person out there.

Payal Kadakia

WorkI AmPeopleDoingYouLook

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