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People Quotes by Bill Bryson
- I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people…
- More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
- You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.
- I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball cap, whereas most…
- I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed…
- For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that…
- Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such people the notion…
- Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.
- Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain--which is to say, all of it. Every last…
- It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that is so, it…
- Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they…
- I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes.
- 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…
- 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…
- Beulah has a husband?' I know. It's a miracle. There can't be more than two people on the planet who'd be willing to sleep with…
- The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number…
- But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For a brief, proud…
- 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…
- Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the…
- There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the…
- 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…
- It was an odd situation. For a century and a half, men got rid of their own hair, which was perfectly comfortable, and instead covered…
- So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no…
- It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more…
- Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn't turn black naturally, they blackened them…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — 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
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle