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.

Gilbert Hernandez

I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm not a political person. I have two political stories, and that's it: 'Human Diastrophism' and 'Poison River.'

Yotam Ottolenghi

Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online.

William Manchester

I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore.

Vincent Bugliosi

The very name 'Manson' has become a metaphor for evil... He has come to represent the dark and malignant side of humanity, and for whatever reason, there is a side of human nature that is fascinated with ultimate evil.

Annie Leibovitz

I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroom was unbelievably sexy. I would spend all night in the darkroom.

C. S. Lewis

Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.

Cecelia Ahern

I don't know why, but there's always the part of you, the part that hides in the shadows protecting the self-destruct button, that doesn't ever want to leave the dark behind.

Carrie Brownstein

Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

Carrie Fisher

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

Zubin Mehta

Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.

Ashton Kutcher

The people here are amazing - the young people here are amazing. The entrepreneurs here are incredible.

Ashton Kutcher

Sharing love and light while in Israel.

Ashton Kutcher

My goal is to embrace the people, the 'natural resources' of Israel, and to build businesses with the creative Israelis.

Paul Spiegel

That will be between the Vatican and the Israeli government,

Nabil Amr

we are ready to take over all the territories from which the Israelis will withdraw.

Ayelet Zurer

I think in Israel there is so much talent in the TV world because there's less movies done.

Abba Eban

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

Abba Eban

Israel is not an aviary.