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
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
It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I sometimes think I cannot write another passage about a disappointing meal ever again, because I've done it so many times. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make… — 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
I have a small tattered clipping that I sometimes carry with meand pull out for purposes of privateamusement. It's a weather forecast… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Black bears rarely attack. But here's the thing. Sometimes they do. All bears are agile, cunning and immensely strong, and they are… — 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
