Great Quotes

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America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls. — Bill Bryson
Cheapness is a great virtue. — Bill Bryson
Have you ever seen Glenn Beck in operation? It is the most terrifying thing. It's so bad that you think he's going to announce in… — Bill Bryson
If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors.… — Bill Bryson
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. — Martin Buber
The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a… — James Buchan
The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds… — James Buchan
When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset… — James Buchan
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. — Pearl S. Buck
Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing… — Betty Buckley
And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively. — Jimmy Buffett
I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the… — Sitting Bull
Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father. — Sitting Bull
I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal… — Madeleine Albright
Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing… — Sandra Bullock
I believe in feeling connected. Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. But there is a great feeling that happens, that… — Gisele Bundchen
It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in… — Gisele Bundchen
I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing… — Luther Burbank
Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable. — Julie Burchill
I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history? — Julie Burchill
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never… — Julie Burchill
When I moved to Brighton from London in 1995, I was struck by what I thought of as its townliness. A town, it seemed to… — Julie Burchill
The downtrodden are the great creators of slang. — Anthony Burgess
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. — Edmund Burke
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. — Edmund Burke

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