All Bill Bryson Quotes
- I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people… Each
- There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. Age
- The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know. Actually Know
- I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out… All
- There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready… Beat
- Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains. Boston
- I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way. Difference
- A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing… Appealing
- America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls. America
- America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn't for me. America
- Anyone who has read my books will know that I don't tend to use guides when I am travelling. It's not a pride thing, but… Anyone
- Cheapness is a great virtue. Cheapness
- Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city. American
- England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet. Bacon
- For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in… Atlantic
- I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball… Always Wanted
- I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever… Alive
- I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Constantly
- I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is not a funny place. Afghanistan
- I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour. Anti
- I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why. Cricket
- In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not. Country
- It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that. Actual
- More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to. English
- The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to… Book