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Been Quotes by Bill Bryson
- For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in…
- I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever…
- Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do…
- There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American…
- Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at…
- To my surprise, I felt a certain springy keenness. I was ready to hike. I had waited months for this day, after all, even if…
- It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a…
- On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to…
- Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don't think a…
- The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here…
- I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically…
- ...if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of…
- So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no…
- For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most – it can seem…
- Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We…
- Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1…
- In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour