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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
Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
South Dakota... is like the world's first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
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
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
Much as I resented having to grow up in Des Moines, it gave me a real appreciation for every place in the… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century.… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The world is very lucky to have America. It's got to be the first time in the whole history of the planet… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
[The Royal Society] is quite simply the voice of science in Britain. It is intellectually rigorous, not afraid to be outspoken on… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
And before long there will be no more milk in bottles delivered to the doorstep or sleepy rural pubs, and the countryside… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Because time moves more slowly in Kid World ... it goes on for decades ... It is adult life that is over… — 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 Image
There is more difference between a zebra and a horse, or between a dolphin and a porpoise, than there is between you… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
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“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
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