Showing posts with label Bill Bryson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bill Bryson. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Dress for success

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For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most – it can seem as if the whole impulse of fashion has been to look maximally ridiculous. If one could be maximally uncomfortable as well,
the triumph was all the greater.
― Bill Bryson ―
And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we
have to alter it every six months.
― Oscar Wilde ―
Once upon a time You dressed so fine
― Bob Dylan ―

  

Monday, August 08, 2022

Nooks and crannies in abundance

Four Horsemen of Apocalypse by Viktor Vasnetsov

Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe. ― Bill Bryson 

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We like things to be black or white, tall or short, here or there. We like to consider two sides to every story. Unfortunately, there aren't always two sides. Sometimes there's only one; more often, there are multitudes. Many facets on the stone. Nooks and crannies in abundance. Things are usually not either black or white, but multicolored. ― Barry Leiba