Bill Bryson Quotes

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Bill Bryson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeFamilyMyselfWorldStoryKind

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

Meryl Streep

LifeFeelMy LifeWantWhile

Israel deserves special treatment from the United States, both for historical reasons and because there can be no regional peace without a secure Israel.

Stephen Kinzer

PeaceSpecialWithoutHistorical

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

Robert Benchley

WritingProfessionalChangingRibbon

The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football.

Robert Carlyle

FootballMissScotlandMostAbout

The 9/11 commission recommended the appointment of a national intelligence director with budgetary authority to better coordinate the work of the intelligence community and resolve differences.

Ronald Kessler

WorkCommunityIntelligenceBetter

Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.

Brian Bosworth

FootballThinkingFeelWonderAlmost

The greatest honor of my life was to lead these men in my platoon, even though it was a war that I and they disagreed with.

Seth Moulton

LifeMenWarHonorMy LifeLead

In a way, NAFTA is like a scrambled egg. How do you unscramble an egg? The value chains are so interwoven that it would be very difficult to do that. But government policies force us to look for ways to unscramble it.

Shahid Khan

GovernmentValueEggYouLookWay

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

Tupac Shakur

MusicDownHimIndustryHeAround

In television, I was first cast as a cavalry officer because of my name.

Tim Pigott-Smith

NameTelevisionFirstBecauseCast

I love fashion, and I love clothes, and so collaborating and putting pieces together is a passion that I have.

Nina Dobrev

LovePassionTogetherFashionPieces

Italian food really reflects the people. It reflects like a prism that fragments into regions.

Lidia Bastianich

FoodPeoplePrismItalian FoodLike

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