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Instant Quotes by Bill Bryson
- English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language…
- There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because…
- To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual pleasure as possible…
- Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.
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- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive… — Alvin Adams
- A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you. — Brigitte Bardot
- They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. — Samuel Beckett
- Laughter is an instant vacation. — Milton Berle
- At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before… — Annie Besant
- False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we… — Christian Nestell Bovee
- I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir. — David Bowie
- The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
- It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet… — George Julius Poulett Scrope