Time Quotes by Bill Bryson

“Work expands to fill the time available for its completion,” still known as Parkinson’s Law.”

— Bill Bryson

Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.

— Bill Bryson

It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron.

— Bill Bryson

“In the time of Dickens, almost all ironwork was green, light blue, or dull gray.”

— Bill Bryson

Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.

— Bill Bryson

The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus

— Bill Bryson

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

— Bill Bryson

I want things to be better all the time. And I tend to get angry about that. Books are an opportunity to…

— Bill Bryson

The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times…

— Bill Bryson

I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the…

— Bill Bryson

“I didn’t ask for twenty quarter-pound cheeseburgers, I asked for four quarter-pound cheeseburgers five times.” “Same thing,” he said. “It’s not the…

— Bill Bryson

“Since the dawn of time, several billion human (or humanlike) beings have lived, each contributing a little genetic variability to the total…

— Bill Bryson

I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the…

— Bill Bryson

“It is a challenge to believe that there was ever a time that airline food was exciting, when stewardesses were happy to…

— Bill Bryson

For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60…

— Bill Bryson

... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had…

— Bill Bryson

“The 1920s was a great time for reading altogether—very possibly the peak decade for reading in American life. Soon it would be…

— Bill Bryson

Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I…

— Bill Bryson

For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred…

— Bill Bryson

“Everyone has a supremely low moment somewhere along the AT, usually when the urge to quit the trail becomes almost overpowering. The…

— Bill Bryson

It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you…

— Bill Bryson

“Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth's mountains and rivers and oceans, every…

— Bill Bryson

Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless…

— Bill Bryson

“As a rule, you knew it was time to eat when you could hear potatoes exploding in the oven. Happily, all this…

— Bill Bryson

“For a long time it was assumed that anything so miraculously energetic as radioactivity must be beneficial. For years, manufacturers of toothpaste…

— Bill Bryson

“Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth's mountains and rivers and oceans, every…

— Bill Bryson

“The 1920s was a great time for reading altogether—very possibly the peak decade for reading in American life. Soon it would be…

— Bill Bryson

“Just a month after the completion of the Declaration of Independence, at a time when he delegates might have been expected to…

— Bill Bryson

“With the canal, the cost of shipping a ton of flour from Buffalo to New York City fell from $120 a ton…

— Bill Bryson

Everything that has ever lived, plant or animal, dates its beginning from the same primordial twitch. At some point in an unimaginably…

— Bill Bryson

“Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it…

— Bill Bryson

“And there was never a better time to delve for pleasure in language than the sixteenth century, when novelty blew through English…

— Bill Bryson

“Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain - which is to say,…

— Bill Bryson

“...it occurred to me, not for the first time, what a remarkably small world Britain is. That is its glory, you see--that…

— Bill Bryson

“It was all a long time ago and at this stage we just don’t know.”

— Bill Bryson

“All of this came to me in the space of a lingering moment. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.…

— Bill Bryson

“But the thing is, most of the time bad things don't happen. Rocks don't fall. Earthquakes don't occur. New vents don't suddenly…

— Bill Bryson

“At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States.”

— Bill Bryson

“In some sense, gravity does not exist28; what moves the planets and stars is the distortion of space and time.”

— Bill Bryson

“For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere).”

— Bill Bryson