--- title: "16 Want Quotes By Bill Bryson" description: "16 Want quotes by Bill Bryson. Plus more from Bill Bryson and more Want sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef6/bill-bryson-340_christmas_christmas-tree-stands-are-the-work-of-th_69532.png" --- > [Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/christmas-tree-stands-are-the-work-of-the-devil-and-they-want-you-dead/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef6/bill-bryson-340_christmas_christmas-tree-stands-are-the-work-of-th_69532.png) > [Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/life-just-wants-to-be-but-it-doesn-t-want-to-be-much/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e3/bill-bryson-340_life_life-just-wants-to-be-but-it-doesn-t-wan_67981.png) > [Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/every-dog-on-the-face-of-the-earth-wants-me-dead/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/001/bill-bryson-340_dead_every-dog-on-the-face-of-the-earth-wants_284744.png) > [I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/i-can-t-fix-the-world-if-you-want-to-make-a-difference-in-life-you/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c41/bill-bryson-340_differences_i-can-t-fix-the-world-if-you-want-to-mak_2777681.png) > [I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is not a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/i-don-t-want-to-go-and-start-trying-to-make-jokes-in-places-like/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e95/bill-bryson-340_afghanistan_i-don-t-want-to-go-and-start-trying-to-m_1664977.png) > [There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/there-is-something-about-the-momentum-of-travel-that-makes-you-want/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ed/bill-bryson-340_just-keep-moving_there-is-something-about-the-momentum-of_2197589.png) > [I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/i-think-it-s-only-right-that-crazy-people-should-have-their-own-city/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbc/bill-bryson-340_cities_i-think-it-s-only-right-that-crazy-peopl_2271480.png) > [I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/i-ve-never-quite-understood-that-feeling-that-you-arrive-in-a-strange/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d65/bill-bryson-340_arrive_i-ve-never-quite-understood-that-feeling_2312449.png) > [I want things to be better all the time. And I tend to get angry about that. Books are an opportunity to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/i-want-things-to-be-better-all-the-time-and-i-tend-to-get-angry-about/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b1/bill-bryson-340_about_i-want-things-to-be-better-all-the-time_2291564.png) > [The basic challenge of any book is you know you're going to be working on it for three or four years or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/the-basic-challenge-of-any-book-is-you-know-you-re-going-to-be/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f5/bill-bryson-340_any_the-basic-challenge-of-any-book-is-you-k_594315.png) > [You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/you-may-find-that-your-parents-are-the-most-delightful-people-but-you/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/466/bill-bryson-340_delightful_you-may-find-that-your-parents-are-the-m_2664483.png) > [Black bears rarely attack. But here's the thing. Sometimes they do. All bears are agile, cunning and immensely strong, and they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/black-bears-rarely-attack-but-here-s-the-thing-sometimes-they-do-all/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2d/bill-bryson-340_bear_black-bears-rarely-attack-but-here-s-the_2843978.png) > [I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/i-don-t-know-whether-i-m-misanthropic-it-seems-to-me-i-m-constantly/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/654/bill-bryson-340_better_i-don-t-know-whether-i-m-misanthropic-it_109593.jpg) > [Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/our-instinct-may-be-to-see-the-impossibility-of-tracking-everything/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b1/bill-bryson-340_capacity_our-instinct-may-be-to-see-the-impossibi_2014788.png) > [But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/but-that-s-the-glory-of-foreign-travel-as-far-as-i-am-concerned-i-don/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89c/bill-bryson-340_childlike_but-that-s-the-glory-of-foreign-travel-a_1188870.jpg) > [I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/i-was-heading-to-nebraska-now-there-s-a-sentence-you-don-t-want-to/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/797/bill-bryson-340_headings_i-was-heading-to-nebraska-now-there-s-a_2947847.png) ## Other authors on Want ## More by Bill Bryson > [Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/most-big-companies-don-t-like-you-very-much-except-hotels-airlines/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“But Welsh spellings are as nothing compared with Irish Gaelic, a language in which spelling and pronunciation give the impression of having been devised…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/but-welsh-spellings-are-as-nothing-compared-with-irish-gaelic-a/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as they were worn without underwear. . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/pantaloons-were-often-worn-tight-as-paint-and-were-not-a-great-deal/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/if-you-go-out-on-the-appalachian-trail-you-have-to-bring-so-much-more/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“The dining table was a plain board called by that name. It was hung on the wall when not in use, and was perched…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/the-dining-table-was-a-plain-board-called-by-that-name-it-was-hung-on/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/from-almost-nothing-france-in-four-years-built-up-an-aircraft/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/every-twenty-minutes-on-the-appalachian-trail-katz-and-i-walked/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“A diarist named George Templeton Strong recorded in the winter of 1866 that even with two furnaces alight and all the fireplaces blazing, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/a-diarist-named-george-templeton-strong-recorded-in-the-winter-of/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/tune-your-television-to-any-channel-it-doesn-t-receive-and-about-1/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/as-a-rule-of-thumb-i-would-submit-that-if-you-need-to-call-your-floss/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/nobody-gets-excited-about-the-future-at-all-ever-the-future-is/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“What made this particularly interesting is that John Howard is by far the dullest man in Australia. Imagine a very committed funeral home director…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/what-made-this-particularly-interesting-is-that-john-howard-is-by-far/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/i-would-make-a-genuinely-terrible-guide-i-can-t-remember-things-i/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [“In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/in-the-mystifying-world-that-was-victorian-parenthood-obedience-took/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) > [If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/if-this-book-has-a-lesson-it-is-that-we-are-awfully-lucky-to-be-here/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/want/bill-bryson/#itemlist", "name": "16 Want Quotes By Bill Bryson", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bill Bryson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/christmas-tree-stands-are-the-work-of-the-devil-and-they-want-you-dead/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef6/bill-bryson-340_christmas_christmas-tree-stands-are-the-work-of-th_69532.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef6/bill-bryson-340_christmas_christmas-tree-stands-are-the-work-of-th_69532.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef6/bill-bryson-340_christmas_christmas-tree-stands-are-the-work-of-th_69532.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.” — Bill Bryson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bill Bryson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/life-just-wants-to-be-but-it-doesn-t-want-to-be-much/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e3/bill-bryson-340_life_life-just-wants-to-be-but-it-doesn-t-wan_67981.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e3/bill-bryson-340_life_life-just-wants-to-be-but-it-doesn-t-wan_67981.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e3/bill-bryson-340_life_life-just-wants-to-be-but-it-doesn-t-wan_67981.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.” — Bill Bryson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bill Bryson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/every-dog-on-the-face-of-the-earth-wants-me-dead/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/001/bill-bryson-340_dead_every-dog-on-the-face-of-the-earth-wants_284744.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/001/bill-bryson-340_dead_every-dog-on-the-face-of-the-earth-wants_284744.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/001/bill-bryson-340_dead_every-dog-on-the-face-of-the-earth-wants_284744.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.” — Bill Bryson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I can't fix the world. 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