"Croissant": However you choose to pronounce it at home, it is perhaps worth nothing that outside the United States, the closer you… — 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
For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange… — 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
Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the… — 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
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
To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a… — 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… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And… — 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
