Bill Bryson Quotes

I think I'm optimistic, yeah, especially in real life, but I think it's funny to be pessimistic.

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?

I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

I would say I'm an optimist by nature.

When I do look at myself, I see someone who is fundamentally optimistic. Quite a lot of what I do in my television work involves the less than pleasant aspects of human nature, yet I'm never pessimistic.

Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.

People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think that's the dialectic we all need to be in.

I understand that being optimistic in this age is challenging, but I am optimistic nonetheless.

She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been

An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.

In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

I'm an eternal optimist.

Optimistic people generally feel that good things will last a long time and will have a beneficial effect on everything they do. And they think that bad things are isolated: They won't last too long and won't affect other parts of life.