Life Quotes by Bill Bryson

“The universe is an amazingly fickle and eventful place, and our existence within is a wonder.”

— Bill Bryson

Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.

— Bill Bryson

Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.

— Bill Bryson

Traveling is more fun - hell, life is more fun - if you can treat it as a series of impulses.

— Bill Bryson

“In America, Benjamin Franklin famously risked his life by flying a kite in an electrical storm.”

— Bill Bryson

I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.

— Bill Bryson

The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times…

— Bill Bryson

I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father…

— Bill Bryson

“If your pillow is six years old (apparently average age for a pillow) it has been estimated that one tenth of its…

— Bill Bryson

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

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

“They simply exist," Attenborough adds, "testifying to the moving fact that life even at its simplest level occurs, apparently, just for its…

— Bill Bryson

I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see…

— Bill Bryson

It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

— Bill Bryson

“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

Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that…

— Bill Bryson

It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you…

— Bill Bryson

It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet…

— Bill Bryson

“Pepys recorded in his diary a rather more prosaic milestone in his life. On September 25, 1660, he tried a new hot…

— Bill Bryson

I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous…

— Bill Bryson

“So why, you are bound to ask at some point in your life, do microbes so often want to hurt us? What…

— Bill Bryson

“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

“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

“As the physicist Paul Davies puts it, 'If everything needs everything else, how did the communities of molecules ever arise in the…

— Bill Bryson

“It is easy to overlook this thought that life just is. As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have…

— Bill Bryson

...if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep…

— Bill Bryson

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

“Somewhere in all this, it was thought, there also resided a mysterious élan vital, the force that brought inanimate objects to life.…

— Bill Bryson

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

Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a…

— Bill Bryson

“I mention all this to make the point that if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely…

— Bill Bryson

“If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth's history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4…

— Bill Bryson

“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

“Cavendish is a book in himself. Born into a life of sumptuous privilege- his grandfathers were dukes, respectively, of Devonshire and Kent-…

— Bill Bryson

“When the Earth was only about a third of its eventual size, it was probably already beginning to form an atmosphere, mostly…

— Bill Bryson

“[Australia] is the home of the largest living thing on earth, the Great Barrier Reef, and of the largest monolith, Ayers Rock…

— Bill Bryson

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

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

“Tunney has all the makings of a hero – he was clean living, intelligent, polite, reasonably good-looking – but, like Lou Gehrig,…

— Bill Bryson

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