--- title: "24 Way Quotes By Bill Bryson" description: "24 Way quotes by Bill Bryson. Plus more from Bill Bryson and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/616/bill-bryson-340_atoms_physicists-are-atoms-way-of-thinking-abo_1771356.png" --- > [Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/physicists-are-atoms-way-of-thinking-about-atoms/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/616/bill-bryson-340_atoms_physicists-are-atoms-way-of-thinking-abo_1771356.png) > [In order to have quality journalism you need to have a good income stream, and no Internet model has produced a way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/in-order-to-have-quality-journalism-you-need-to-have-a-good-income/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c05/bill-bryson-340_generating_in-order-to-have-quality-journalism-you_2877266.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) > [Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/romans-park-their-cars-the-way-i-would-park-if-i-had-just-spilled-a/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb6/bill-bryson-340_acid_romans-park-their-cars-the-way-i-would-p_1136387.png) > [In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/in-a-funny-way-nothing-makes-you-feel-more-like-a-native-of-your-own/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/314/bill-bryson-340_country_in-a-funny-way-nothing-makes-you-feel-mo_1690588.png) > [I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite haphazard and shambolic about the way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/i-have-made-a-career-of-bumbling-around-places-stumbling-on-landmarks/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dee/bill-bryson-340_about_i-have-made-a-career-of-bumbling-around_1079333.png) > [Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessible was to try to get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/most-scientists-are-without-exception-adorably-quirky-and-one-of-the/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5f/bill-bryson-340_books_most-scientists-are-without-exception-ad_1511541.png) > [One of the brilliant things about Britain is the way you've managed to save old things but to keep using them -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/one-of-the-brilliant-things-about-britain-is-the-way-you-ve-managed/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df2/bill-bryson-340_about_one-of-the-brilliant-things-about-britai_709776.png) > [You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/you-can-always-tell-a-midwestern-couple-in-europe-because-they-will/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70f/bill-bryson-340_alleys_you-can-always-tell-a-midwestern-couple_888743.jpg) > [An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/an-awful-lot-of-england-is-slowly-eroding-in-ways-that-i-find-really/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e1/bill-bryson-340_awful_an-awful-lot-of-england-is-slowly-erodin_3153120.png) > [I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e09/bill-bryson-340_absolutely_i-would-make-a-genuinely-terrible-guide_50250.png) > [Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/distance-changes-utterly-when-you-take-the-world-on-foot-a-mile-2/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/019/bill-bryson-340_change_distance-changes-utterly-when-you-take-t_3163358.png) > [Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/disassemble-the-cells-of-a-sponge-by-passing-them-through-a-sieve-for/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe2/bill-bryson-340_back-together_disassemble-the-cells-of-a-sponge-by-pas_291323.jpg) > [I could give you a long list of things I like about Britain, but essentially what it comes down to is that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/i-could-give-you-a-long-list-of-things-i-like-about-britain-but/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e74/bill-bryson-340_about_i-could-give-you-a-long-list-of-things-i_2965314.png) > [If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/if-you-drive-to-say-shenandoah-national-park-or-the-great-smoky/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1f/bill-bryson-340_appreciation_if-you-drive-to-say-shenandoah-national_781173.png) > [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) > [Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/australians-are-very-unfair-in-this-way-they-spend-half-of-any/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/736/bill-bryson-340_australians_australians-are-very-unfair-in-this-way_610197.png) > [If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65f/bill-bryson-340_ability_if-this-book-has-a-lesson-it-is-that-we_66450.png) > [Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/every-atom-you-possess-has-almost-certainly-passed-through-several/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2dc/bill-bryson-340_atoms_every-atom-you-possess-has-almost-certai_1881623.png) > [But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/but-i-got-a-great-deal-else-from-the-experience-i-learned-to-pitch-a/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06a/bill-bryson-340_america_but-i-got-a-great-deal-else-from-the-exp_1014367.png) > [So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/so-if-people-didn-t-settle-down-to-take-up-farming-why-then-did-they/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5de/bill-bryson-340_beer_so-if-people-didn-t-settle-down-to-take_2899943.png) > [Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/being-a-pessimist-is-just-such-a-gloomy-way-of-looking-at-things-so-i/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/389/bill-bryson-340_balance_being-a-pessimist-is-just-such-a-gloomy_3123520.png) > [It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/it-is-not-true-that-the-english-invented-cricket-as-a-way-of-making-2/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05d/bill-bryson-340_break_it-is-not-true-that-the-english-invented_1540978.png) > [And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/and-i-find-chopsticks-frankly-distressing-am-i-alone-in-thinking-it/) [Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/974/bill-bryson-340_capture_and-i-find-chopsticks-frankly-distressin_2216009.png) ## Other authors on Way ## 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. 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