“I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“In some sense, gravity does not exist28; what moves the planets and stars is the distortion of space and time.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“In the time of Dickens, almost all ironwork was green, light blue, or dull gray.” — 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
I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No… — 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
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
“And there was never a better time to delve for pleasure in language than the sixteenth century, when novelty blew through English… — 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
“If you go back sixty-four generations, to the time of the Romans, the number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Just a month after the completion of the Declaration of Independence, at a time when he delegates might have been expected to… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for a long… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back. — 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
