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.

Arsene Wenger

I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.

Arsene Wenger

I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.

Arsene Wenger

One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win.

Bill Bradley

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

Bill Bradley

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous

Roy Oswalt

The 20 wins is nice, but it's a whole lot better that this team is in the playoffs,

Craig Biggio

The '98 team was probably the most disappointing.

Aaron Small

The 7-0 thing is nice, but more importantly, it's a team win,

Jim Pace

That was the most disappointing thing about this game. We have a veteran team and we should know what to do in those situations.

Brian Higgins

The only risk we run, ... is by doing nothing.

Carrie Mae Weems

It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of exposing my own body in a certain kind of way. I can't ask anybody else to do something that I don't do first myself.

Carl Sagan

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

Bill Vaughan

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.

York Chow

We need to have some time to investigate to be sure that this is a new virus and has the risk of human-to-human transmission.

Benny Gray

We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.

Joe Girardi

I wouldn't do that. You don't want to risk him getting hurt. The only way I would do that is if it's something like the 19th inning and we're out of people.

Jason Giambi

I would give it a try, but they said don't even try. It's not worth risking it. I'm walking a little better. It's not so tight.