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Bill Bryson Quotes

I sometimes think I cannot write another passage about a disappointing meal ever again, because I've done it so many times.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Think Done Sometimes Write Meal

We don't go to parties much. I am very serious about my work. But I also have two children, and I wanted to do that job well.

Work Children Job I Am Go Serious

I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.

Me Voice My Own Listen More Hard

Frightening things happen in solitude.

Solitude Things Happen Happen Things

Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.

Stafford Cripps

Deep Feel Solution Traveled Party

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Me Boxing Bigger Because Than Guys

One has to live with the fact that some corporate decisions are going to be wrong. As long as most of the decisions are right.

Live Decisions Long Wrong Right

The relationship between stars and their fans is always ambivalent and often highly charged with contradictory and ambivalent emotions, of which the most powerful is need.

Stars Relationship Powerful Emotions

I tell guys all the time, you see me messing up, get at me. I want you to get at me.

Time Me You Want See Tell

I think safely experiencing fear by watching a horror movie makes real life a little less frightening.

Life Fear Think Horror Watching

You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.

Vision Time Jealous Think You Wrong

Growing up, everybody told me I was good. I was playing ping-pong with my father, and he'd say, 'That's a good shot,' but I'd mess up the next one, and I'd yell, 'Don't tell me that! I'll mess up! Just don't say anything!' You know, if someone says, 'You can't do that,' then I'm going to be, 'Yeah, you watch me.'

Good Father Me Growing Up Someone

The truthful man is usually a liar.

Man Liar Truthful

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