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Used Quotes by Bill Bryson
- 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…
- We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
- As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used…
- 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…
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- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — Chinua Achebe
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used… — Margaret Atwood
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of… — Jane Austen
- What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the… — Paul Auster
- I could sell used battery acid and make it fly. — Dan Aykroyd
- A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved… — Charles Babbage
- Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of… — Charles Babbage
- I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my… — Lauren Bacall
- I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure. — Sebastian Bach