“The dining table was a plain board called by that name. It was hung on the wall when not in use, and… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“One consequential change is that people used to get most of their calories at breakfast and midday, with only the evening top-up… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“It’s a bit burned,” my mother would say apologetically at every meal, presenting you with a piece of meat that looked like… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I sometimes think I cannot write another passage about a disappointing meal ever again, because I've done it so many times. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“I don't wish to denigrate a sport that is enjoyed by millions, some of them awake and facing the right way, but… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“By the 1920s if you wanted to work behind a lunch counter you needed to know that 'Noah's boy' was a slice… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“It is a challenge to believe that there was ever a time that airline food was exciting, when stewardesses were happy to… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“As a rule, you knew it was time to eat when you could hear potatoes exploding in the oven. Happily, all this… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder,… — 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
Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless… — 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
