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Out Quotes by Bill Bryson
- I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out…
- Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma.…
- If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if you…
- In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of…
- Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but somehow when you…
- My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex…
- 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…
- The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift and a venom…
- So here I am, my affections torn between a postal service that never feeds me but can tackle a challenge and one that gives me…
- And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any…
- 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…
- Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.
- Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye,…
More Out Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria