A Quote by Bill Bryson

Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.

Bill Bryson

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Bill Bryson
American - Writer
Born: December 8, 1951

I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings.

Paul Simon

I keep getting mobbed in M&S and Debenhams. I feel like Barry Manilow.

Joe Lycett

I like Iowa. I know Iowa. I've spent some time in Iowa. Good people in Iowa. It's a great state.

Martin O'Malley

NED is talking about through-putting this energy out to the vicinity of Boston then taking a northern route up to Nova Scotia and then exporting it, so they're not talking about giving us any local benefits at all.

Chris Gibson

I like a strange, wide range of stuff. I like classical music and industrial noise bands. John Waters films and Peanuts cartoons. Barry Manilow and GG Allin. I should have my head examined.

Brian Pinkerton

My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no was around I'd kiss the screen.

Janet Jackson

My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no one was around I'd kiss the screen.

Janet Jackson

I was only a young whippersnapper at that point. I was in pubs playing Barry Manilow songs. I didn't know what to expect.

Chesney Hawkes

Barry Bonds was like Joe Namath or Muhammad Ali. He could make a statement and go out and back it up. Not a lot of guys can do that. In fact, managers usually cringe when guys make statements about what they're going to do. In Barry's case, I liked it. I think he did it on purpose to motivate himself. In a lot of ways, it's easy for Barry. I think he needs a little controversy around him.

Jim Leyland

When I was 16, I'd ping pong between AC/DC and Barry Manilow without any sense of irony.

Eric McCormack

Bad news travels fast. Good news takes the scenic route.

Doug Larson

Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the mountain by a reliable if not scenic route, we have delivered. Technique is optional.

Stacy Schiff

Where did God come from? It's certainly more complicated than trying to figure out where, say, Barry Manilow was born.

Eric Metaxas

I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming in the classroom and just unloading on a class, but I knew to take the scenic route to go to the grocery store to avoid certain elements.

Questlove

I have to go into the studio to make my second album knowing I'm making an album. When I first started making songs I didn't have an album in mind, that's why a lot of them I like - I'm talking about how I haven't got a deal, how I'm living, you can never really top the first time, but we'll see how it goes.