English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I ordered a coffee and a little something to eat and savored the warmth and dryness. Somewhere in the background Nat King… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Entirely incidentally, a little-known fact about Shakespeare is that his father moved to Stratford-upon-Avon from a nearby village shortly before his son's… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Every kid I knew had a father with a little stash of men's magazines which the father thought was secret and which… — 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
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
Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
And before long there will be no more milk in bottles delivered to the doorstep or sleepy rural pubs, and the countryside… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad.… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it… — 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 -… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Everything that has ever lived, plant or animal, dates its beginning from the same primordial twitch. At some point in an unimaginably… — 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome. — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“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
I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
