Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“The universe is an amazingly fickle and eventful place, and our existence within is a wonder.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“In America, Benjamin Franklin famously risked his life by flying a kite in an electrical storm.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Traveling is more fun - hell, life is more fun - if you can treat it as a series of impulses. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Tunney has all the makings of a hero – he was clean living, intelligent, polite, reasonably good-looking – but, like Lou Gehrig,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn’t get… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“They simply exist," Attenborough adds, "testifying to the moving fact that life even at its simplest level occurs, apparently, just for its… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“So why, you are bound to ask at some point in your life, do microbes so often want to hurt us? What… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“The bad news is that atoms are fickle and their time of devotion is fleeting—fleeting indeed. Even a long human life adds… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Pepys recorded in his diary a rather more prosaic milestone in his life. On September 25, 1660, he tried a new hot… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“The 1920s was a great time for reading altogether—very possibly the peak decade for reading in American life. Soon it would be… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
...if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in all this, it was thought, there also resided a mysterious élan vital, the force that brought inanimate objects to life.… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“It is easy to overlook this thought that life just is. As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“The 1920s was a great time for reading altogether—very possibly the peak decade for reading in American life. Soon it would be… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“As the physicist Paul Davies puts it, 'If everything needs everything else, how did the communities of molecules ever arise in the… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“When the Earth was only about a third of its eventual size, it was probably already beginning to form an atmosphere, mostly… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Life, in short, just wants to be. But—and here’s an interesting point—for the most part it doesn’t want to be much. This… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Cavendish is a book in himself. Born into a life of sumptuous privilege- his grandfathers were dukes, respectively, of Devonshire and Kent-… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“I mention all this to make the point that if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth's history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“[Australia] is the home of the largest living thing on earth, the Great Barrier Reef, and of the largest monolith, Ayers Rock… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“If your pillow is six years old (apparently average age for a pillow) it has been estimated that one tenth of its… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all. — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“But Welsh spellings are as nothing compared with Irish Gaelic, a language in which spelling and pronunciation give the impression of having been devised… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as they were worn without underwear. . .… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“The dining table was a plain board called by that name. It was hung on the wall when not in use, and was perched… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“From almost nothing, France in four years built up an aircraft industry that employed nearly 200,000 people and produced some 70,000 planes. Britain built… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“A diarist named George Templeton Strong recorded in the winter of 1866 that even with two furnaces alight and all the fireplaces blazing, he… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
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… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome. — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“What made this particularly interesting is that John Howard is by far the dullest man in Australia. Imagine a very committed funeral home director… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
![“[Australia] is the home of the largest living thing on earth, the Great Barrier Reef, and of the largest monolith, Ayers Rock (or Uluru to use its now-official, more respectful Aboriginal name). It has more things that will kill you than anywhere else. Of the world's ten most poisonous snakes, all…” quote by Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/df6/bill-bryson-340_australia_australia-is-the-home-of-the-largest-liv_228550.png)
