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.

Ben Bernanke

Long-term unemployment is particularly costly to those directly affected, of course. But in addition, because of its negative effects on workers' skills and attachment to the labor force, long-term unemployment may ultimately reduce the productive capacity of our economy.

Bhagavad Gita

The one who remains the same towards friend or foe, in honor or disgrace, in heat or cold, in pleasure or pain; who is free from attachment is dear to me.

Jade Jagger

My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed me. I woke up when I was breastfeeding my own child thinking, 'How can a woman feel an attachment to a child without breast-feeding?'

Cheech Marin

Whether it's from the biggest, most powerful city, or from the dinkiest little podunk town, there is a certain attachment and connection, and yes, pride about where you came from.

Alan Paller

If an early infectee had an e-mail list with reporters at all the major news services, that would start the cascade. News organizations do not have radical e-mail attachment limits (like a rule banning all picture attachments) because they get legitimate pictures.

Rob Halford

I'd like to feel that everyone would recognize that Judas Priest was the first true heavy metal band. I think there is a special attachment to Judas Priest and metal. We were the first band to really go out and claim ourselves to be a real metal band.

Charles Lamb

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

Edward Gibbon

Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor will have no attachment except to the person of their benefactor.

Herbert A. Simon

My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.

Antoine Rivarol

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

William Shakespeare

Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.

David Graeber

It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.

Camille Paglia

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

Alan Watts

We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.

China Machado

I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.

Cher Lloyd

I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own.

Chang-Rae Lee

We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or else we brood and too firmly root. Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears.

Eddie Montgomery

We're still who we are at the roots. I reckon, hopefully, you let it branch out a little bit and you learn. You live and learn, so that's what we've tried to do.