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Wells Quotes by Bill Bryson
- It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.
- 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…
- On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to…
- Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be…
- 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…
- 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…
- What this means in practice is that if you are not a born worrier you have nothing to worry about (though of course you wouldn't…
- For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most – it can seem…
More Wells Quotes
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong