« All Life Quotes · Bill Bryson's Page
Life Quotes by Bill Bryson
- There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready…
- I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.
- 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…
- You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story…
- I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.
- Traveling is more fun - hell, life is more fun - if you can treat it as a series of impulses.
- The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn’t get much better than…
- Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a musty archive of…
- I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous imbecility of his…
- Because time moves more slowly in Kid World ... it goes on for decades ... It is adult life that is over in a twinkling.
- But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't…
- I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or…
- 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…
- Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.
- As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far around it as…
- If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain…
- The people are immensely likable— cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted, and unfailingly obliging. Their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water. They have…
- Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and that there's nothing…
- ...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…
- It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at…
- I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died…
- When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an odd thing. It…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle