All Bill Bryson Quotes
- 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
- The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population. Based
- There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves. Albert
- You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them. Delightful
- We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a… Barely
- All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history.… All
- An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're… Awful
- Book tours are really kind of fun. You get to stay in nice hotels, you are driven everywhere in big silver cars, you are treated… Big
- Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that… Allowed
- Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma.… Absence
- Have you ever seen Glenn Beck in operation? It is the most terrifying thing. It's so bad that you think he's going to announce in… All
- I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball cap, whereas most… Baseball
- 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 people do; disappointed… All
- I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he… Achievement
- I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell… Comic
- I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for a long time, and my… Abroad