Bill Bryson Quotes

I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

Bill Bryson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'll never forget watching my dad perform in a Shakespeare in the Park production of 'Richard III' in New York.

John David Washington

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I don't need a lot of attention. I'd much rather have the work be famous than the face be famous.

Jeff MacNelly

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Changes in size are not a consequence of changes in shape, but the reverse: changes in size often require changes in shape. To put it another way, size is a supreme regulator of all matters biological. No living entity can evolve or develop without taking size into consideration. Much more than that, size is a prime mover in evolution.

John Tyler Bonner

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I've memorized 'Hamilton.'

Tom Perez

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I will never begin to know what the accountants do or what the camera guys do, as much as I try to learn just out of respect for what they do and to try to make my job as manager more efficient. The most important thing is to let those people do their jobs while making it clear what the parameters are.

Robert Carlock

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My mother was not what anyone would call sweet, and she wasn't conventional. When my brother couldn't find his shoes one morning, she said, 'Oh, for God's sake, it won't kill him not to have shoes for a day,' and sent him to school without them.

Rosemary Mahoney

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The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.

Michel Patini

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Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.

Jay McInerney

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While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

Jose Rizal

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I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.

Jose Saramago

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Cancer softened me up. I like the old me better. I liked being angry. It made me feel strong.

Johnny Ramone

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Trying to breast-feed gave me such a creepy feeling. It made me feel sick.

Davinia Taylor

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