“Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn’t a country; it’s a near-death experience.” — 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
Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain--which is to say, all of… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I had to drive to Minneapolis once, and went on a back road just to see the country. But there was nothing… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking… — 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
In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
So here I am, my affections torn between a postal service that never feeds me but can tackle a challenge and one… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No… — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“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 Image
