All Bill Bryson Quotes
- I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes. Always Screw
- You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it. Degree
- Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessible was to try to get readers interested in… Accessible
- Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder. America
- To my surprise, I felt a certain springy keenness. I was ready to hike. I had waited months for this day, after all, even if… All
- Before, prior to. There is no difference between these two except length and a certain affectedness on the part of 'prior to.' To paraphrase Bernstein,… All
- I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost… Almost Everything
- 18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available. Absurdly
- But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't… Almost Everything
- We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls. Bad Ass
- In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at… Across
- Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their… Back Together
- As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used… Always Someone
- 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 ancient… Accounted
- I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or… Bored
- At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this strange compartmentalization that… Activities
- Black bears rarely attack. But here's the thing. Sometimes they do. All bears are agile, cunning and immensely strong, and they are always hungry. If… Absolutely
- Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks. Eating
- Beulah has a husband?' I know. It's a miracle. There can't be more than two people on the planet who'd be willing to sleep with… Beulah
- Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality. Atom
- Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious. Ambitious
- It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely… All
- When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but… Albert
- I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it. Heading
- The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number… Approximately