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Nearly Quotes by Bill Bryson
- In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.
- 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…
- It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete…
- We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here…
- 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…
- For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most – it can seem…
More Nearly Quotes
- Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing. — Lance Armstrong
- The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions. — Charles Babbage
- The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million. — Joe Baca
- It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. — James A. Baldwin
- I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be… — Bob Barker
- Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. — Dave Barry
- The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck. — Lynda Barry
- Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. — Charles Baudelaire
- The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is… — Ezra Taft Benson
- The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and… — Annie Besant
- Nearly two weeks have passed since Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, and while we are still dealing with the… — Jo Bonner
- When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with… — Niels Bohr