Bill Bryson Quotes About Impulse

Quotes about: Impulse

• 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

  Fashion, Triumph, Looks

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Mar 14, 2014

• Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their way back together and build themselves into a sponge again. You can do this to them over and over, and they will doggedly reassemble because, like you and me and every other living thing, they have one overwhelming impulse: to continue to be.

  Bill Bryson

  Cells, Together, Way

  "A Short History of Nearly Everything". Book by Bill Bryson, 2003.

• Traveling is more fun - hell, life is more fun - if you can treat it as a series of impulses.

  Bill Bryson

  Fun, Life Is, Hell

• But what is life to a lichen ? Yet its impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours arguably even stronger. If I were told that I had to spend decades being a furry growth on a rock in the woods, I believe I would lose the will to go on.

  Bill Bryson

  Strong, Believe, Rocks

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.308, Lulu Press, Inc

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