To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn’t a country; it’s a near-death experience.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“The real significance of Magellan's voyage was not that it was the first to circumnavigate the planet, but that it was the… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Traveling is more fun - hell, life is more fun - if you can treat it as a series of impulses. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Thanks to years of travel at other people’s expense, I have a lifetime supply of soaps, small bottles of shampoo, aromatic lotions,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Portability also explains why many old chests and trunks had domed lids- to throw off water during travel. The great drawback of… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn’t get… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“We have been gulled by the ease of air travel and other forms of communication into thinking that the world is not… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“[Traveling] makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“The romance of travel wasn't always terribly evident to those who were actually experiencing it.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly… — 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
