Bill Bryson Quotes


We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls. Bill Bryson Civilization 138
As my father always used to tell me You see son theres always someone in the world worse off than you. And I always used to think So Bill Bryson Cynicism 82
There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again. Bill Bryson Home 81
Why is it I wondered that old people are always so selfcentered and excitable But I just smiled benignly and stood back comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead. Bill Bryson Dead 73
A cough so robust that I tapped into two new seams of phlegm. Bill Bryson Health 70
The bar was like a funeral parlor with a beverage service. Bill Bryson Alcohol 66
There are three stages in scientific discovery. First people deny that it is true then they deny that it is important finally they credit the wrong person. Bill Bryson Science 66
Energy is liberated matter matter is energy waiting to happen. Bill Bryson Science 55
On a cooler sun on a primordial earth I later learned that biologists when they are feeling jocose refer to this as the Chinese Resaturant Problembecause we has a dim sun. Bill Bryson Humorous 54
More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to. Bill Bryson Uncategorized 49
What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp Why I would die of course. Literally shit myself lifeless. Bill Bryson True 47
I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him. Bill Bryson Parents 46
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. Bill Bryson Farming 44
Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a threeyearold. Bill Bryson Nature 43
The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population. Bill Bryson Economy 42
Its an unnerving thought that we may be the living universes supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously. Bill Bryson Humanity 41
A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age just two months older than Shakespeare had the requisite talent and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593 assuming he wasnt too dead to work. Bill Bryson Shakespeare 39
If the mattress stains were anything to go by a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. Bill Bryson Humorous 37
It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers one atom at a time you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you. Bill Bryson Science 36
What is it about maps I could look at them all day earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit... Bill Bryson Travel 32
If a potato can produce vitamin C why cant we Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs No point asking. Nobody knows. Bill Bryson Health 31
When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression. Bill Bryson Uncategorized 31
Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness. Bill Bryson Physics 29
Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth but the least ambitious. Bill Bryson Science 28
For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere. Bill Bryson Physics 23

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