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Quite Quotes by Bill Bryson
- I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he…
- I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and…
- Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do…
- [The Royal Society] is quite simply the voice of science in Britain. It is intellectually rigorous, not afraid to be outspoken on controversial issues such…
- Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a musty archive of…
- At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this strange compartmentalization that…
- 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 upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't…
- I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation,…
- I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite haphazard and shambolic about the way I go about…
More Quite Quotes
- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange
- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit… — David Attenborough
- I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me… — Margaret Atwood
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood
- There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you… — Margaret Atwood
- Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich,… — Margaret Atwood
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for… — Margaret Atwood
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden