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World Quotes by Bill Bryson
- I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.
- A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing…
- More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
- The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.
- We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a…
- Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that…
- I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell…
- Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it is science that…
- [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…
- Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all.
- Because time moves more slowly in Kid World ... it goes on for decades ... It is adult life that is over in a twinkling.
- It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.
- Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at…
- 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…
- Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.
- 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…
- 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 before long there will be no more milk in bottles delivered to the doorstep or sleepy rural pubs, and the countryside will be mostly…
- 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,…
- It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky, deep green fields,…
- Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.
- The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — 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
- 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
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach