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
“Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding. I am… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life’s dominant species that it is hard to grasp that… — 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
“In America, Benjamin Franklin famously risked his life by flying a kite in an electrical storm.” — 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
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 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
To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual… — 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
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
You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a… — 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
“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
“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 mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are… — 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
“As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
But what is life to a lichen ? Yet its impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours… — 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
“That is the great thing about being a foreigner—that you get to spend your life with a whole new set of cultural… — 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
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
