--- title: "17 Littles Quotes By Bill Bryson" description: "17 Littles quotes by Bill Bryson. Plus more from Bill Bryson and more Littles sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/679/bill-bryson-340_inspirational_there-is-always-a-little-more-toothpaste_751403.png" --- > [There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/there-is-always-a-little-more-toothpaste-in-the-tube-think-about-it/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/679/bill-bryson-340_inspirational_there-is-always-a-little-more-toothpaste_751403.png) > [English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/english-grammar-is-so-complex-and-confusing-for-the-one-very-simple-2/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18e/bill-bryson-340_common_english-grammar-is-so-complex-and-confus_3191679.png) > [Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/coming-back-to-your-native-land-after-an-absence-of-many-years-is-a-2/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a34/bill-bryson-340_absence_coming-back-to-your-native-land-after-an_1396061.jpg) > [Every kid I knew had a father with a little stash of men's magazines which the father thought was secret and which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/every-kid-i-knew-had-a-father-with-a-little-stash-of-men-s-magazines/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4c/bill-bryson-340_father_every-kid-i-knew-had-a-father-with-a-lit_586145.png) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/entirely-incidentally-a-little-known-fact-about-shakespeare-is-that/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f7/bill-bryson-340_avon_entirely-incidentally-a-little-known-fac_2159902.png) > [When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/when-you-consider-it-from-a-human-perspective-and-clearly-it-would-be/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52f/bill-bryson-340_difficult_when-you-consider-it-from-a-human-perspe_2888768.jpg) > [I ordered a coffee and a little something to eat and savored the warmth and dryness. Somewhere in the background Nat King…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/i-ordered-a-coffee-and-a-little-something-to-eat-and-savored-the/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a13/bill-bryson-340_backgrounds_i-ordered-a-coffee-and-a-little-somethin_1118335.jpg) > [English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/english-grammar-is-so-complex-and-confusing-for-the-one-very-simple/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/573/bill-bryson-340_air_english-grammar-is-so-complex-and-confus_875757.jpg) > [Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/distance-changes-utterly-when-you-take-the-world-on-foot-a-mile-2/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/019/bill-bryson-340_change_distance-changes-utterly-when-you-take-t_3163358.png) > [Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/clearly-some-time-ago-makers-and-consumers-of-american-junk-food/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5b/bill-bryson-340_barriers_clearly-some-time-ago-makers-and-consume_2611626.png) > [I had to drive to Minneapolis once, and went on a back road just to see the country. But there was nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/i-had-to-drive-to-minneapolis-once-and-went-on-a-back-road-just-to/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b8/bill-bryson-340_back-roads_i-had-to-drive-to-minneapolis-once-and-w_1129359.png) > [If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/if-you-go-out-on-the-appalachian-trail-you-have-to-bring-so-much-more/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c1/bill-bryson-340_appalachian_if-you-go-out-on-the-appalachian-trail-y_30812.jpg) > [Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/very-little-of-what-america-does-is-actually-bad-and-i-don-t-think-it/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/378/bill-bryson-340_america_very-little-of-what-america-does-is-actu_234799.png) > [Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/take-a-moment-from-time-to-time-to-remember-that-you-are-alive-i-know-2/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef7/bill-bryson-340_alive_take-a-moment-from-time-to-time-to-remem_2495012.png) > [And before long there will be no more milk in bottles delivered to the doorstep or sleepy rural pubs, and the countryside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/and-before-long-there-will-be-no-more-milk-in-bottles-delivered-to/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfb/bill-bryson-340_bottles_and-before-long-there-will-be-no-more-mi_388796.png) > [It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/it-was-the-kind-of-pure-undiffused-light-that-can-only-come-from-a/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ac/bill-bryson-340_australia_it-was-the-kind-of-pure-undiffused-light_2414438.png) > [Everything that has ever lived, plant or animal, dates its beginning from the same primordial twitch. At some point in an unimaginably…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/everything-that-has-ever-lived-plant-or-animal-dates-its-beginning/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24e/bill-bryson-340_animal_everything-that-has-ever-lived-plant-or_2663051.jpg) ## Other authors on Littles ## More by Bill Bryson > [Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/most-big-companies-don-t-like-you-very-much-except-hotels-airlines/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“But Welsh spellings are as nothing compared with Irish Gaelic, a language in which spelling and pronunciation give the impression of having been devised…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/but-welsh-spellings-are-as-nothing-compared-with-irish-gaelic-a/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as they were worn without underwear. . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/pantaloons-were-often-worn-tight-as-paint-and-were-not-a-great-deal/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/if-you-go-out-on-the-appalachian-trail-you-have-to-bring-so-much-more/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“The dining table was a plain board called by that name. It was hung on the wall when not in use, and was perched…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/the-dining-table-was-a-plain-board-called-by-that-name-it-was-hung-on/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/from-almost-nothing-france-in-four-years-built-up-an-aircraft/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/every-twenty-minutes-on-the-appalachian-trail-katz-and-i-walked/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“A diarist named George Templeton Strong recorded in the winter of 1866 that even with two furnaces alight and all the fireplaces blazing, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/a-diarist-named-george-templeton-strong-recorded-in-the-winter-of/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/tune-your-television-to-any-channel-it-doesn-t-receive-and-about-1/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/as-a-rule-of-thumb-i-would-submit-that-if-you-need-to-call-your-floss/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/nobody-gets-excited-about-the-future-at-all-ever-the-future-is/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“What made this particularly interesting is that John Howard is by far the dullest man in Australia. Imagine a very committed funeral home director…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/what-made-this-particularly-interesting-is-that-john-howard-is-by-far/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/i-would-make-a-genuinely-terrible-guide-i-can-t-remember-things-i/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/in-the-mystifying-world-that-was-victorian-parenthood-obedience-took/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 thing. To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/if-this-book-has-a-lesson-it-is-that-we-are-awfully-lucky-to-be-here/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/littles/bill-bryson/#itemlist", "name": "17 Littles Quotes By Bill Bryson", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. 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