“Or look at the old money, with its florins and half crowns and thrupenny bits, and imagine what it was like in… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
In any area of human endeavour, there is going to be mediocrity. You're going to find people who get money that they… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I always tell people there's only one trick to writing: You have to write something that people are willing to pay money… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
A bank robber in Los Angeles told the clerk not to give him cash, but to deposit the money in his checking… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“America's industrial success produced a roll call of financial magnificence: Rockefellers, Morgans, Astors, Mellons, Fricks, Carnegies, Goulds, du Ponts, Belmonts, Harrimans, Huntingtons,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States.” — 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
![“At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States.” quote by Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c3c/bill-bryson-340_class-warfare_at-one-time-he-cornelius-vanderbilt-pers_2954083.jpg)
