Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Bryson

There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone call from the frankly interesting.

Bill Bryson

Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days - that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls - adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.

Bill Bryson

Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.

Beth Simone Noveck

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

Bill Vaughan

Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.

Cody Irwin

That was the first time I've ever done distance running. Running 3.1 miles has massively helped with endurance.

Dave Sellon

That win in the 400 was huge for us. He is supposed to be a distance guy, but he has a lot of range. He had a great day.

Ivan Seidenberg

We have an expanding position in the growth markets of the future ? wireless, data, broadband, long distance ? and we're executing extremely well in these areas,

Raymond Bonner

I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.

David Friedman

It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything.

Bethenny Frankel

I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.

Katy Miller

That was a surprise because if we see a special defense, it's usually a box-and-one on Ashleigh. It was frustrating and hard to get open. Now I know how Ashleigh feels sometimes. But now that I've been in her shoes, I see how important it is for us to set good screens to get her open.

Ed Belfour

That was a great win. I felt good tonight, I saw the puck well. It feels like things are getting back on track.

Kaitlin Carney

That was a great way to start the season. We were able to get off on the good foot and that's what we've been working toward. It really feels good, but we're just going to take it one game at a time.

Scott Eastwood

I like working with my hands. It feels good to build something yourself.

Mark Ronson

I think I have an inherent modest level of stress, but I'm only super-aware of it when it goes away, when I'm on holiday and I think, 'Oh this feels pretty good.'

Robin S. Sharma

I used to be incredibly afraid of public speaking. I started with five people, then I'd speak to 10 people. I made it up to 75 people, up to 100, and now I can speak to a very large group, and it feels similar to speaking to you one-on-one.

Rickey Henderson

I love playing this game and every spring training feels like the first.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

CC Sabathia

As long as we win games while I'm on the mound, I feel good.

Catullus

Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

Cecil Rhodes

To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.

Carrie Underwood

Throw caution to the wind and just do it.

Carl Sagan

If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.

Carl Sagan

Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C. by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as 'night walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers.' But science is more intricate and subtle, reveals a much richer universe, and powerfully evokes our sense of wonder. And it has the additional and important virtue-to whatever extent the word has any meaning-of being true.

Bethenny Frankel

It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.

Bette Davis

I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.

Bette Davis

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.