"I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldnâ€™t have lost if you hadnâ€™t left home in the first place."

-- Bill Bryson

#Running Quotes #Travel Quotes #Home Quotes

“Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.”
“For those of you that never saw the Small Faces live, this is as close as you're gonna get”
“The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but our instincts believe the former; so that, out of this education, we retain the terror, and just believe enough to make it very troublesome whenever we are placed in circumstances that awaken it.”

Source : Catherine Crowe (1850). “The night-side of nature; or, Ghosts and ghost-seers”, p.174
“I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and dont give them a lot of credence.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Mark Twain cannot be defined.”
“If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.”
“When the American documentary filmmaker Donn Alan Pennebaker wanted to do a film on Dylan, Dylan asked him what he'd already done, and Pennebaker answered, Nothing except shots in the street. Dylan asked to see them, and he agreed to let him do the film.”
“...It would be possible to make much more progress than has been made if the NCI knew its job better, knew how to make discoveries...The NCI really does not know how to make discoveries....So long as the NCI is not willing to follow up ideas that seem good to people who have had experience making discoveries, the work of the NCI is going to be pedestrian.”

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